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JANUARY 15, 1910, PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS, USA, PEOPLE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

The Arkansas Gazette newspaper apparently reported on January 17, 1910, about an "airship" sighting at night in Paragould on January 15, 1910.

The "airship" reportedly carried three or four passengers and a "powerful headlight", It was white and "brilliantly lighted." It apparently flew in the south of the city, going to the south.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. gd1:] GALVESTON DAILY NEWS:

[Ref. wl1:] WILLIAM D. LEET:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates that in Paragould, Arkansas, on January 15, 1910, in the evening, a large, white airship carrying 3 and possibly 4 passengers is declared by many to have passed over Paragould early last night. It carried a powerful headlight and was brilliantly lighted. The machine, apparently a dirigible balloon from the description, was under perfect control, and seemed to be flying a distance of 1000 ft above the earth. It passed over the south part of the city, heading south.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Humcat quoting newspaper source.

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 15 January 1910 at "22:00" in Paragould, Arkansas, USA, there was a "Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. One object was observed by several witnesses."

And: "A large, white airship carrying 3 and possibly 4 passengers is declared by many to have passed over Paragould early last night. It carried a powerful headlight and was brilliantly lighted. The machine, apparently a dirigible balloon from the description, was under perfect control, and seemed to be flying a distance of 1000 ft above the earth. It passed over the south part of the city, heading south."

The sources are listed as "Farish, Lucius Lucius Farish investigation files", "Bloecher, Ted R., Ted R Bloecher investigation files", "Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database Author, Redwood City, 2002", "Rosales, Albert, Humanoid Sighting Reports Database".

Points to consider:

At the time, some suspected it was the "Tillinghast machine", like other sightingsin these nights over Massachusetts. One Wallace E. Tillinghast, of Worcester, Massachussetts, had claimed to have invented a "marvelous aeroplane." But when the Worcester Board of Trade demanded that Tillinghast display his "airship" or shut up, nothing more was heard from this man.

Other reports, like those in Chattanooga, Tennessee, were explained probably correctly when people found a large Chinese lantern manufactured by kids which landed in the city where people thought they witnessed an "airship" for several days.

The strong lighting of the thing can evoke a meteor, the "powerful headlight" would be the trail. The report is so poor that there is not even a duration of the observation or indication whether the trajectory was in straight line or not.

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Possible meteor or chinese lantern.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? Arkansas Gazette newspaper, Arkansas, USA, January 17, 1910.
• [ga1] ? Galveston Daily News newspaper, Galveston, Texas, USA, January 17, 1910.
• [---] ? Lucius Farish, ufologist, USA.
• [---] ? Ted Bloecher, ufologist, USA.
• [wl1] * "UFOs Over Arkansas - Part I", article by William D. Leet, MUFON Arkansas Director, in the ufology magazine The MUFON UFO Journal, MUFON, USA, #171, page 7, May 1982.
• [---] ? "*U* Computer Database", compiled by Larry Hatch, USA, circa 2000.
• [ar1] * "1910 - 1919 Humanoid Sighting Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2004, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1910.shtml
• [ud1] * "15 Jan 1910 - Paragould, Arkansas, USA", web page by the UFOdna website, circa 2006, at www.thecid.com/ufo/uf14/uf0/140247.htm

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