Horsefly, British Columbia: Round gray balloon-like object with basket passes mining camp
Between 4 and 7 August 1897, around 2:00 p.m., a round gray object said to be a balloon, with what looked like a large basket beneath it, passed southeast over the Horse-Fly Hydraulic Mining camp in Horsefly, British Columbia.
Background
Around 2:00 p.m. a round, gray object said to be a balloon passed to the southeast over the Horse-Fly Hydraulic Mining camp in Horsefly, British Columbia. It appeared to have a large basket hanging beneath it. John Hyde reported the account in National Geographic Magazine in March 1898 under the title "An Interesting Rumor Concerning Andrée". 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.