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fergus county democrat (lewistown, mont.) 1904-1919 — mysterious airship

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1909-12-28
Location: lewistown, montana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: fergus county democrat (lewistown, mont.) 1904-1919 · 1909-12-28 · page 8
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1909-12-28 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “mysterious airship”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... 40 miles an hour, a mysterious airship tonight ap peared over Worcester, hovered over the city a feV minutes, disappeared for about two hours and then re turned' to cut four circles above the city, using a searchlight of tremendous power. Thousands of people thronged the streets to watch the mysterious visitor. The airship remained over the city for 15 minutes, all the time at a height which most observers set at about 2,000 feet, too far to enable even its precise shape to be seen. At the time of the airship's visit, Wallace E. Tillinghast, a Worcester man who recently claimed to have in vented a marvelous aeroplane in which he said he haid ...

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