The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Connecticut, USA, on January 7, 1910.
A Number of Norwich People Believe it to be a Large Paper Balloon.
A number of Norwich people, who saw sailing over the city what was supposed by a few to be the mysterious airship which has been reported so often of late declare now that in their opinion it was nothing but a large paper balloon, the kind that is put up on Fourths of July. It traveled with the wind, which strengthens their belief. There was a ribbon of smoke in its wake, such as the burning torch of a paper balloon gives forth. It would be surprising if someone is trying to hoax the public in this way.
