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Visitors from space?by
Bob Bowman | |
Mysterious
objects supposedly visiting Texas aren’t new.
In the late 1800s, several towns in East
Texas experienced aerial phenomena.
An account in the Dallas Morning
News on October 5,1898, reported that a 12-year-old boy saw “a great ball of fire”
hovering about three feet over the ground with a buzzing sound before it took
off again.”
At Denton,
the Galveston News reported in 1897 that a “mysterious ship” was seen “cavorting”
through the sky in North
Texas.
Another mysterious airship passed over Bonham
at 3:15 a.m. in April of 1897.
In 1889, as Dr. J.M. Stephen's was going
to Emerson from Paris, he saw an object
that he said looked like a large balloon, about 100 feet in length, reported the
Dallas Morning News.
From the Dallas
newspaper came another report in 1889: “Last night (at Grandview)
about 11 p.m., a party fishing on Chambers Creek perceived the elements and the
earth round about them as bright and luminous as noonday splendor...when three
extra large meteors were traversing the heavens in a northern direction...
”Just
as they vanished and the iridescent beauty with them, three heavy sounds...nosier
than the noisiest anvil firing were distinctly heard...”
At Navasota
in 1894, people were startled by a loud report...originating in the northwest,
and immediately across the heavens there extended a narrow line of smoke of dazzling
whiteness so bright that it was painful to the eyes. Immediately, it began to
fade to the color of burning sulfur and spread out over the heavens in various
colors--violent, purple blue. Then the script letters MMTUW formed and the heavens
became clear...”
The Dallas Morning News said “dozens of people witnessed
the event and inquiries developed that it had been seen in parts of Brazos and
Washington counties. The negroes were very much frightened...” |
The
account of these events were reported by “Hidden Headlines of Texas,” a collection
by Chad Lewis of strange, unusual and bizarre newspaper stories from 1860 to 1910.
Bob
Bowman's East Texas
July 5, 2009 Column.
A weekly column
syndicated in 70 East Texas newspapers
Related Topics:
UFOs
in Texas, Ghosts & more
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