Airshipcat:

Date:	November 24, 1896
Time:	Night
Place:	Oakland, California

Narratives:

“Tuesday, December 24 [1896]” ... “The mysterious air ship travels in ... Oakland ...” [mbd1]

November 25, 1896 Oakland (CA) Tribune
“YOU CAN'T MISS IT / Just Look at the Sky and You Will See the Airship / SO SAY THE CREDULOUS / It Was in Red Bluff and Also Oakland Last Night / EXPERIENCES ARE RELATED / All Sorts of Rumors Are Floating About the Town”

November 25, 1896 Oakland (CA) Times
“LIGHTS ALOFT / Seen in This Vicinity Several Evenings / By Various People at Widely Separated Points / As Yet However No One Has Had a View of the Nocturnal Visitor”

November 25, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call
MISSION OF THE AERIAL SHIP / Will Probably Be Used to Destroy the City of Havana / ITS DESTINY IN GENERAL HART'S HANDS / Interesting Details of the Powers of the Mysterious Conquerer of the Air / VAST FORTUNES IN EXPECTANCY FOR ALL CONCERNED / Oakland People Claim to Have Seen Intricate Evolutions in Midair - Venus and Jupiter as Fair Deceivers. [arc1]

Sources:

[mbd1] "La Chronique des OVNI", book by Michel Bougard, Delarge publisher, France, 1977.
[arc1] "The mystery airship log", newspaper articles listing, members.bainbridge.net/~cflood/TheArchives/index.htm

Notes:

Insufficient information.

Explanation:

Could be anything.

Counts:

Type of report:	Second hand from newspaper.
Number of witnesses:	Not indicated.
Number of named witnesses:	0.
Witnesses occupations:	Not indicated.
Type of location:	Not indicated.
Coordinates:	Lat. 38°31'N Long. 121°30'W
Coordinates precision:	10 kilometers.

Description of "UFO":	Lights.
Description of "manoeuvers":	Intricate maneuvers.
Reactions:	Not indicated.
Occupants:	None.
Occupants keywords:	N/A.
Communication:	N/A.
Language:	N/A.
Content:	N/A.

Daylight/nocturnal:	Nocturnal.
Weather:	Not indicated.
Observation devices:	None.

Strangeness:	Medium.
Reliability:	Medium.

Explanation(s) at the time:	Mars and Jupiter, airship test.

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