Date: | November 20, 1896
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Time: | None
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Place: | Sacramento, California
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"... These three cities [Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland] are again visited by a "flying cigar" four days after [November 18, 1896] ..." [1]
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"November 20 [1896]: In the evening, a sort of balloon with a headlight at the front, a mobile projector at the bottom and two pairs of wings at the front and at the back is observed in the sky of Oakland (California).
Alleged inventors of the machine are not long in claiming paternity of it. However, several arships would keep on flying over California until the end of the year,
as well as some flying lights." [2]
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Jérome Clark mentions an observation in Sacramento on November 20, 1896. [3]
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Sources: |
- [1] "Le mystère des OVNIS", book by Paul Mauclair, Vernoy publisher, 1979.
- [2] Jérôme Beau, www.rr0.org
- [3] "The UFO Book", Book by Jerome Clark, Visible Ink Press, 1998.
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Notes: | Insufficient information.
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Explanation: | Could be anything, including confusions of dates in ufology litterature.
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