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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-10-11T04:07:23'
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title: In 1897, a rash of
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In 1897, a rash of airship sightings were reported in newspapers across Michigan and other states. These airships often had blinking colored lights and were unlike anything known at the time. [This webpage has collected](http://members.home.net/tlemire/airships.html#KalamazooGazette) all the news stories it could find from the time.