The Great Airship Mystery of the 1890's

[RenikNorthEngland]

Can anyone recommend a good in-depth book dealing with the great airship mystery?

 

[Han]

I have not read this book* but the following show was interesting:

"Gene and Chris present long-time paranormal author and researcher Jeff Danelek, author of a number of books that include "The Great Airship of 1897: A Provocative Look at the Most Mysterious Aviation Event in History (Popular Beliefs Controversial)." Were those early UFO reports the result of balloons, dirigibles, or something totally unknown?"


Episode here:
November 13, 2011 — Jeff Danelek | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio


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[Wade]

Additionally for an Alternative take on the 1897 wave, you can listen to the recent show with Walter bosely. although it isn't specifically on the airships they do play an important role. Walter has also been posting here in the forums under adventureman
September 1, 2013 — Walter Bosley | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

 

[Walter Bosley]

Now available in a printed edition: EOW2:Friends From Sonora (as in the Sonora Aero Club, i.e. early airship mystery)

 

[RenikNorthEngland]

Excellent feedback chaps; I've heard these episodes but definitely going back to them over the next couple of days, and I think I I'm gonna grab both those books as they both look rather intriguing. It of course means I'll have to also get the first EOW book for a complete set; a little more pricey but worth every penny I'm sure. There's a couple of other books on the subject on amazon but the ratings and reviews are sketchy- there's one book going for almost two hundred notes...

The Great Texas Airship Mystery by a guy called Wallace O. Chariton.

Don't think I'll be getting that one.

Scooping up books like mad lately.

 

[Wade]

Excellent feedback chaps; I've heard these episodes but definitely going back to them over the next couple of days, and I think I I'm gonna grab both those books as they both look rather intriguing. It of course means I'll have to also get the first EOW book for a complete set; a little more pricey but worth every penny I'm sure. There's a couple of other books on the subject on amazon but the ratings and reviews are sketchy- there's one book going for almost two hundred notes...

The Great Texas Airship Mystery by a guy called Wallace O. Chariton.

Don't think I'll be getting that one.

Scooping up books like mad lately.

LOL!! when I first read your post I so thought that you gave the authors name as wallace charlatan. Lol that was the first time I used lol n this forum !!

 

[nameless]

lol

 

[Walter Bosley]

Empire of the Wheel 2: Friends From Sonora is my airship mystery book.

 

[icculus]

If you haven't already, check out Greg Bishop's podcast. He's had a few episodes on this subject. Super fascinating.

Radio Misterioso

 

[Walter Bosley]

I'll be Greg's guest tomorrow night, Sunday June 15, 8-10PM PST, on Radio Misterioso at killradio.org discussing the new book EOW3:The Nameless Ones. (If we get started late, give it a few minutes, we will be there. Sometimes an old show is running until Greg gets rolling.)

 

[Walter Bosley]

I've drastically reduced prices for the holidays. Until Jan 1st, the Empire of the Wheel books are only 99 cents each on Kindle. Go to Walter Bosley on Amazon

 

[Wade]

I've purchased all three EOW and lat 33 but not secret missions (yet) They are a steal @ .99 somebody should notify the Redlands police dept.

 

[Burnt State]

lol

Missing this character's wit, insight and perspective shifting comments. Hope his sabbatical and those of others ends soon before they drift ino the zone of the missing posters.

 

[boomerang]

I've mentioned here before, that my mom's side of the family hails from a town no more than 20 miles from Aurora, Texas. Since I don't recall hearing a single comment about the Aurora incident from any of the (now deceased) old timers in my family, I tend to think the alleged incident made very little impression on the locals.

It's quite possible people were seeing "phantom" airships in the late 1800s. But I can't quite buy into the Aurora Texas scenario. Just think it would have made a much larger and longer lasting splash in the area.

The only thing I recall about the subject was a conversation overheard between a ladies working at the Wise County museum (in Decatur, TX), to the effect that someone--name unknown to me--who claimed to be working on a book or documentary about the incident, borrowed some of the museum's materials and was never seen again. Bad form. But not very paranormal !

 

[Burnt State]

I say blame it on Nick Pope; everyone else is.

 

[ALPHA ROMEO UNIFORM]

A.M,
Great news and grabed all of them Walter like your work.

 

[Walter Bosley]

Glad a couple of you got the books while they were cheap. I had to bring the prices back up to a permanent 'discount' level of $4.99 (Where they'll stay until further notice) because even at 99 cents, they didn't move in any greater numbers than usual, lol. Oh well. The idea was to make them practically free to guage interest as well as possibly sell more at the basement price than usually sell. Oddly they didn't, so I got my results. Still, $4.99 is cheaper than what two of the titles were.

If you've read Secret Missions: The Hidden Legacy of Old California, you may be interested to know that I've decided my next nonfiction book will be on another figure of historical mystery and Secret Missions will be a series, this one with a different subtitle, of course. I have research to do so it won't likely be out until later in 2015, probably after my year of writing fiction is complete (Sept '15).

A website based in Dallas/Ft Worth is running a serial article on the EOW2 Etta Place material. It doesn't really get into the airships but it has generated more interest. With the hundredth anniversary of the EOW1 & 2 events coming up, I'll be talking a lot about it throughout 2015.