April 12, 1897🇺🇸Sighting
HistoricalAnomaly
Fontanelle, Iowa: Five residents see 60-foot winged airship pass low to the northwest
On April 12, 1897, at 8:30 p.m., five named residents of Fontanelle, Iowa, saw a winged airship about 60 feet long pass toward the northwest some 200 feet above the town.
Background
At 8:30 p.m. a winged airship 60 feet long was seen passing toward the northwest some 200 feet over Fontanelle, Iowa. It moved at about 10 mph. The witnesses were James H. Hulbert, James Irvin McCampbell, Calvin B. Scott, W. F. Johnston and Leander W. Wood. The Des Moines Daily Leader reported the sighting the next day as "Another Wonderful Tale". 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.