Ep. 162 - The Phantom Airships

Between 1896 and 1897, hundreds of sightings were reported of strange airships over the United States and Europe, years before the Wright Brothers' first flight. Were these mysterious airships alien spacecraft? Or the work of clever human inventors? And were they perhaps the work of a secret society of aviators from decades earlier, who were all part of a vast conspiracy? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097CJJT72/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 http://www.auroratexas.gov/board-of-commisions/historic-preservation/ned/ https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Aurora-UFO-crash-remains-a-Texas-alien-mystery-5410990.php https://texashillcountry.com/1897-aurora-texas-ufo-alien-buried-cemetery/ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yellow-journalism-the-fake-news-of-the-19th-century https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/charles-a-a-dellschau-dreams-of-flying-the-amazing-story-of-an-airship-club-that-might-never-have-existed/274170/ https://www.houstonpress.com/news/secrets-of-the-sonora-aero-club-6567727 Music: Dexter Britain, The Tea Party https://dexterbritain.com/ Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4994-mesmerize License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3641-despair-and-triumph License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices