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Mysterious objects supposedly visiting
Texas aren’t new. In the late 1800s,
several towns in East Texas experienced
aerial phenomena.
An account in
the Dallas Morning News on October
5,1898, reported that a 12-year-old boy
saw “a great ball of fire” hovering
about three feet over the ground with a
buzzing sound before it took off again.”
At Denton, the Galveston News
reported in 1897 that a “mysterious
ship” was seen “cavorting” through the
sky in North Texas.
Another
mysterious airship passed over Bonham at
3:15 a.m. in April of 1897.
In
1889, as Dr. J.M. Stephen's was going to
Emerson from Paris, he saw an object
that he said looked like a large
balloon, about 100 feet in length,
reported the Dallas Morning News.
From the Dallas newspaper came
another report in 1889: “Last night (at
Grandview) about 11 p.m., a party
fishing on Chambers Creek perceived the
elements and the earth round about them
as bright and luminous as noonday
splendor...when three extra large
meteors were traversing the heavens in a
northern direction...
”Just as
they vanished and the iridescent beauty
with them, three heavy sounds...nosier
than the noisiest anvil firing were
distinctly heard...”
At Navasota
in 1894, people were startled by a loud
report...originating in the northwest,
and immediately across the heavens there
extended a narrow line of smoke of
dazzling whiteness so bright that it was
painful to the eyes. Immediately, it
began to fade to the color of burning
sulfur and spread out over the heavens
in various colors--violent, purple blue.
Then the script letters MMTUW formed and
the heavens became clear...”
The
Dallas Morning News said “dozens of
people witnessed the event and inquiries
developed that it had been seen in parts
of Brazos and Washington counties. The
negroes were very much frightened...”
The account of these events were
reported by “Hidden
Headlines of Texas,” a collection by
Chad Lewis of strange, unusual and
bizarre newspaper stories from 1860 to
1910.
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