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| Date: | Place: | Short description: | Short comment: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Details | 1857, June 19 | Carbondale, Pennsylvania | A kind of meteor comes down from a cloud, puts a barn on fire and rebounds. | Possibly the exagerated account of a meteorite fall. |
| Details | 1873, summer or November 20 | Bonham, Texas | Fantastic object or sky serpent in the sky. | Contradictions, missing original source, possibly alcohol related. |
| Details | 1873, summer or November 20 | Fort Scott, Kansas | Object causes disorder in the garrison. | Missing original source. |
| Details | 1878, January 22 | Denison, Texas | Fast round flying object. | Single witness. |
| Details | 1878, January 29 | Separation Wyoming, and near Denver Colorado | Red star, discs, with telescope during January 29, 1878 eclipse. | Astronomical, no UFO. |
| Details | 1880, March 26 | Galisteo Junction, Lamy, New Mexico | A dirigible balloon, the crew laughs and shouts and plays music, they throw a flower and a cup at the ground. | Possible or probable journalistic invention. |
| Details | 1882, May 21 | Atchison, Kansas | A cloud with all the colors in a clear sky. | Meteorological or anything. |
| Details | 1884, June 6 | Benkelman, Holdredge, Lamar, Nebraska | A cylindrical meteor crashes, witnesses describe mechanical pieces. Everything dissolves under the rain. | Probable newspaper hoax. |
| Details | 1884, June 15 | Cincinnati, Ohio | Dark noisy rotating body with pale edges comes down, moves fast and scorches a tree. | Possibly tornado vortex. |
| Details | 1891, July 12 | Ottawa, Ontario | Huge cigar with propeller, big light and smaller lights. | Not evaluated yet. |
| Details | 1893, December 20 | Virginia, South and North Carolina | Luminous body, white, round, noisy, motionless for 15 to 20 minutes, moving. | Unexplained. |
| Details | 1893, December 20 | Rossland, British Colombia, Canada | Ball of light inside multicolored halo, motionless, then makes circles and goes away on straight course. | Extraterrestrial spacecraft or aurora borealis. |
| Details | 1896, Beg. October | San Francisco, California | Object with strong light, passes above cycling woman. | Sparse information. Lone witness. Possibly astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November | Deal Knight' s Ferry, California | A burning object with three lights takes of from the ground, seen by two Methodist ministers. | Sparse information, possible extraterrestrial craft take-off. |
| Details | 1896, November | Woodland, California | Three lights with a trail, seen 30 seconds. | Possible triple meteor. |
| Details | 1896, November | Fast cigar shaped object with luminosity, small explosions. | Sparse information, probable meteorite. | |
| Details | 1896, November | Tacoma, Washington | Throws multicoloroud spikes and moves back and forth an hour long. | Probable star or planet. |
| Details | 1896, November 6 | California | Something flies above California at night. | Insufficient information. Possible meteor. |
| Details | 1896, November 15 | San Andreas, California | Bright light. | Lone witness, no information. |
| Details | 1896, November 16 | Sacramento, California | Phenomenon, not described. | Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 16 | Oakland, California | Phenomenon, not described. | Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 17 | Oakland, California | Phenomenon, not described. | Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 17 | Sacramento, California | Light seen in the sky, passing above the city. Some see a shape and hear a voice. | Flow of statements and retractions by lawyers about airship inventors in the press. |
| Details | 1896, November 17 | Folsom, California | Light seen. | Insufficient information. |
| Details | 1896, November 17 | San Francisco Bay, California | Lights seen. | Insufficient information. |
| Details | 1896, November 18 | Oak Park, Sacramento, California | Object makes a turn, leaves trail of smoke. | Sparse information. Unexplained or hoax. |
| Details | 1896, November 18 | Sacramento, California | Object with four large wings and a projector. | Sparse information. Unexplained or hoax. |
| Details | 1896, November 18 | San Francisco, California | Phenomenon, not described. | Insufficient information. |
| Details | 1896, November 20 | Sacramento, California | No reliable information. | Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 20 | Oakland, California | Dark object with powerful headlight and light at the bottom. | Possible hoax. |
| Details | 1896, November 20 | Tulare, California | Immense sheet high in the sky. | Possibly high cloud. |
| Details | 1896, November 21 | Bay City, California | Something seen. | No information, could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | San Francisco, California | Phenomenon, no description. | Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | Alameda, California | Phenomenon, no description. | Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | Sacramento, California | Slow moving light, crosses town, turns, numerous witnesses. | Unexplained, possibly astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | Chico, California | A flying cigar is seen. | Sparse information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | Oakland, California | Sightings. | Confused information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | Santa Rosa, California | A flying object is seen. | Sparse information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | San Jose, California | Something seen in the night. | Sparse information. Could be astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 22 | Folsom, California | Bright light in the night. | Could be astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 23 | Antioch, California | Something is seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 23 | Berkeley, California | Something is seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 23 | Chico, California | Something is seen at night. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 23 | Santa-Rosa, California | Something is seen at night. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Modesto, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Bakersfield, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Tulare, California | Emits red, blue, white light, descends, rises, turns. | Eventually a star. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Delano, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Los Angeles, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Redlands, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, after November 23 | Anderson, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Placerville, California | Something seen. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Eureka, California | Large white light in night sky. | Possibly astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Santa Rosa, California | Something seen at night. | No information. Could be anything. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Sebastopol, California | Dazzling light. | Sparse information. Maybe astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Oakland, California | Lights seen at night. | Sparse information. Maybe astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Red Bluff, California | Lights seen at night. | Sparse information. Maybe astronomical. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Hanford, California | Something seen. | No information. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | Vacaville, California | Something seen. | No information. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | San Leandro, California | Something seen. | No information. |
| Details | 1896, November 24 | San Jose, California | Something seen. | No information. |
| Details | 1896, November 25 | Fresno, California | Something seen. | No information. |
| Details | 1896, November 25 | Lodi, California | Close encounter of the third kind with alien beings and their craft, highly interesting descriptions. | Hoax or encounter with extraterrestrial beings and craft. |
