Boynton, Illinois: Blacksmith sees winged cigar-shaped object with colored lights

At 9:30 p.m. the blacksmith in Boynton, Illinois, saw a cigar-shaped object that he estimated at "about 150 feet long and 50 feet wide." It had two large wings and carried colored lights. The report appeared in the Delavan (Illinois) Times of 22 April 1897 and belongs to the airship wave of spring 1897. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.