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TheBitterOne
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There is an undeniable 'high strangeness' aspect to some of the 1896/97 Mystery Airship sightings.
A few examples:
If the enigmatic German NYMZA organization did exist and was a terrestrial source of airships, what are we then to make of these cases that suggest a paranormal/extraterrestrial aspect to the phenomenon?
To dismiss all the absurd-sounding, otherworldy details of some sightings just because they don't fit the nuts-and-bolts theory is an act of cherry-picking.
If it could be established at some point in the future that NYMZA or another terrestrial manufacturer was flying airships prior to any high strangeness sightings of similar craft, that would strongly suggest to me that the high strangeness encounters were either being manifested or provoked in some way by the terrestrial ones (a Tulpa Effect of some sort, as one possibility), or that they were very likely all embellishments, fabrications and delusory projections of the human mind onto exotic technology being witnessed for the first time.
Conversely, if high strangeness cases turn out to definitively precede any evidence of NYMZA-like organizations or technology, the implication would be that a paranormal/extraterrestrial agency capable of manifesting these craft and their strange occupants was also influencing later human builders of the more mundane versions (or even masquerading as them).
Learning the truth about this would have profound implications for the 20th century UFO phenomenon too, don't you think?
Maybe I'm stating the obvious with this line of thinking and it's all just an attempt to wrap my own head around the situation, but it's a perspective I don't think gets the attention it deserves, particularly since the key to discovering which came first lies exclusively in the 'nuts-and-bolts' realm of newspaper articles, blueprints and other writings from the 19th century.
A few examples:
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The November 19, 1896, edition of the Stockton, California, Daily Mail featured one of the earliest accounts of an alleged alien craft sighting. Colonel H.G. Shaw claimed that while driving his buggy through the countryside near Stockton, he came across what appeared to be a landed spacecraft.Shaw described it as having a metallic surface which was completely featureless apart from a rudder, and pointed ends. He estimated a diameter of 25 feet and said the vessel was around 150 feet in total length. Three slender, 7-foot-tall (2.1 m), apparent extraterrestrials were said to approach from the craft while "emitting a strange warbling noise." The beings reportedly examined Shaw's buggy and then tried to physically force him to accompany them back to the airship. The aliens were said to give up after realizing they lacked the physical strength to force Shaw onto the ship. They supposedly fled back to their ship, which lifted off the ground and sped out of sight. Shaw believed that the beings were Martians sent to kidnap an earthling for unknowable but potentially nefarious purposes. This has been seen by some as an early attempt at alien abduction; it is apparently the first published account of explicitly extraterrestrial beings attempting to kidnap humans into their spacecraft.
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In one account from Texas, three men reported an encounter with an airship and with "five peculiarly dressed men" who asserted that they were descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and had learned English from the 1553 North Pole expedition led by Hugh Willoughby.
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An article in the Albion Weekly News reported that two witnesses saw an airship crash just inches from where they were standing. The airship suddenly disappeared, with a man standing where the vessel had been. The airship pilot showed the men a small device that supposedly enabled him to shrink the airship small enough to store the vessel in his pocket.
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On April 10, 1897, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a story reporting that one W.H. Hopkins encountered a grounded airship about 20 feet in length and 8 feet in diameter near the outskirts of Springfield, Missouri. The vehicle was apparently propelled by three large propellers and crewed by a beautiful, nude woman and a bearded man, also nude. Hopkins attempted with some difficulty to communicate with the crew in order to ascertain their origins. Eventually they understood what Hopkins was asking of them and they both pointed to the sky and "uttered something that sounded like the word Mars.
If the enigmatic German NYMZA organization did exist and was a terrestrial source of airships, what are we then to make of these cases that suggest a paranormal/extraterrestrial aspect to the phenomenon?
To dismiss all the absurd-sounding, otherworldy details of some sightings just because they don't fit the nuts-and-bolts theory is an act of cherry-picking.
If it could be established at some point in the future that NYMZA or another terrestrial manufacturer was flying airships prior to any high strangeness sightings of similar craft, that would strongly suggest to me that the high strangeness encounters were either being manifested or provoked in some way by the terrestrial ones (a Tulpa Effect of some sort, as one possibility), or that they were very likely all embellishments, fabrications and delusory projections of the human mind onto exotic technology being witnessed for the first time.
Conversely, if high strangeness cases turn out to definitively precede any evidence of NYMZA-like organizations or technology, the implication would be that a paranormal/extraterrestrial agency capable of manifesting these craft and their strange occupants was also influencing later human builders of the more mundane versions (or even masquerading as them).
Learning the truth about this would have profound implications for the 20th century UFO phenomenon too, don't you think?
Maybe I'm stating the obvious with this line of thinking and it's all just an attempt to wrap my own head around the situation, but it's a perspective I don't think gets the attention it deserves, particularly since the key to discovering which came first lies exclusively in the 'nuts-and-bolts' realm of newspaper articles, blueprints and other writings from the 19th century.
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