| Date: | November 22, 1896 | 
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| Time: | None | 
| Place: | Alameda, California | 
			 
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			 [On November 22, 1896] “a curious object of cigar shape was seen again...” in [Alameda.] [mbd1]  | 
	
			 
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			 Fred R. Varner indicates that on Sunday, November 22, 1896, Selby Yost, motorman for the Alameda Electric Railway Line, and his passengers watched a light moving in an undulating fashion through the air. He notes that Alameda is about eight miles east-southeast of San Francisco. [fwr1]  | 
	
Insufficient information.
Could have been a meteor, or erroneous date.
| Type of report: | Ufology book. | 
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| Number of witnesses: | Not indicated. | 
| Number of named witnesses: | 0. | 
| Witnesses occupations: | Not indicated. | 
| Type of location: | Not indicated. | 
| Coordinates: | |
| Coordinates precision: | 10 kilometers. | 
| Description of "UFO": | Not indicated. | 
| Description of "manoeuvers": | Not indicated. | 
| Reactions: | |
| Occupants: | None. | 
| Occupants keywords: | N/A. | 
| Communication: | N/A. | 
| Language: | N/A. | 
| Content: | N/A. | 
| Daylight/nocturnal: | Not indicated. | 
| Weather: | Not indicated. | 
| Observation devices: | None. | 
| Strangeness: | None. | 
| Reliability: | None. | 
| Explanation(s) at the time: | Not indicated. |