The strange true story behind one of the earliest published alien-encounter accounts in a U.S. newspaper: an 1896 New Jersey night, a Civil War veteran and early NRA member, a mysterious airship, and beings that shouldn’t have been there. Told alongside the real “airship craze” that swept the country that year and the psychology of two people talking each other into the impossible. A history/UFO-curious piece (~9 min) for a bill that likes its supernatural stories with a footnote.
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