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San Bernardino Sun, Volume 5, Number 74, 25 November 1896

The first appearance of the strange aerial craft was in the sky above Sacramento last Wednesday night, and a number of people saw lights moving across the sky, circling like a bird and tacking like a ship, liut these reports were at first discredited by every paper in the state save tho Call. Its correspondent at the capital gathered testimony from a sufficiently lurge number of credible witnesses, and the paper at once took the position that that airship was no myth.