Events 1909

December

1909-12-22; USA, Illinois, Chicago

Category: UFO Crash

Six years after Kitty Hawk, newspapers from New York to Chicago were were astounded by national reports of a huge airship flying across the nation and seen by thousands. It crashed west of Chicago, but was never found. The story was front-page news in the nation's major newspapers.

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