This article was published in the daily newspaper Atchison Globe, of Atchison, Kansas, USA, on May 21, 1882.
Warning: the airship stories must not be taken at face value as "UFO sightings." Evaluation of such stories is under way here.
A curious phenomenon appeared in the heavens in a southeast direction this morning at 11 o'clock, being a small cloud showing all the colors of the rainbow, the sky around it being perfectly clear.
