This article was published in the daily newspaper The Evening Telegram, Adrian, Michigan, Wednesday, April 14, 1897.
Warning: the airship stories must not be taken at face value as "UFO sightings." Evaluation of such stories is under way here.
At last that airship has been seen. Wm. Peckman, the East Maumee, clothier, states he saw it last night, displaying three colored lights and moving in a southeasterly direction. William was not looking through a smoked glass either.