This article was published in the daily newspaper The Courier-Herald, Saginaw, Michigan, Wednesday, April 21, 1897.
Warning: the airship stories must not be taken at face value as "UFO sightings." Evaluation of such stories is under way here.
Saginaw Has an Attraction for the Terrestrial Traveler
Several parties claim to have seen the much talked of airship, which they say passed over this city Monday evening [April 19, 1897] between 8 and 9 o'clock moving in a northerly direction. Two ladies claim to have witnessed the phenomenon, as well as several young men who are of strictly temperate habits.