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Re: The Airship Sightings Over the United States Between the Years 1896-1898 and Its Connection to Verne's Novel Robur the Conqueror!

From: <Rfbagby~at~aol.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:49:47 EDT
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

In a message dated 4/8/04 4:02:35 AM, spaceart~at~worldnet.att.net writes:

<< > Cohen, Daniel. The Great Airship Mystery: A UFO of the 1890s. East

Rutherford, NJ: Putnam Publishers, 1981.

>>
REPLY: For what little it's worth, I've read the Cohen, which does discuss
Verne (but mainly to point out the contemporary pundits mentioned other flying
machine stories rather than ROBUR.) This also puts this case in the broader
history of UFO's (for instance Martians and Mystery Inventors were theories
advanced for both the 1897 and post-WWII wave -- a minor 50's B film THE FLYING
SAUCER testifies to that -- but the Mystery Inventor hypothesis always falls
aside when no one steps forward, so the difference in our time is Cold War anxiety
making the Aliens alternative be held long enough to become embedded in
popular culture.)
RF Bagby
Received on Thu 08 Apr 2004 - 15:49:59 IDT

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