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Chris Aubeck Investigates the Taylorsville UFO Encounter of 1873

2/12/2020

62 Comments

 
In the December 2019 issue of El Ojo Crítico, a Spanish-language magazine investigating the unexplained, Chris Aubeck has an article looking into the Taylorville UFO encounter of 1873, one of the sightings that he had alluded to in his December interview with Thomas Brisson Jørgensen that I wasn’t able to immediately identify at the time. The story is amusing, but as I thought when I read Aubeck’s description, it scarcely seemed credible. The December issue of El Ojo Crítico was recently posted online. Now, after seeing Aubeck’s much lengthier and more detailed take on the story, excerpted from a forthcoming book, I am even more confident that it just another hoax article, like so many of its era.
Since Aubeck’s article is available only in Spanish, I will summarize his findings. First, though, let’s take a look at the original report of the sighting, as historian William Taylor presented it in a letter to the New York Herald. His letter was published on April 8, 1873 on p. 7:
VERY LIKE A WHALE.
 
ZANESVILLE, Ohio, April 5, 1873.
 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:--
 
A most extraordinary phenomenon was observed near the village of Taylorsville, a few miles from this city. About a week ago, Mr. Thomas Inman, whom your reporter can vouch for as a respectable farmer of unquestionable truth and veracity, related the circumstance to the writer, and with his son, who was also an eye witness, is willing to make oath to the truth of this statement.
 
One evening about two weeks ago, while Mr. Inman and his son, a young man, were returning to their home from Taylorsville, the saw a light which they describe as looking like a “burning brush pile,” near the zenith, descending rapidly towards the earth, with a loud roaring noise. It struck the ground in the road a short distance from them. The blazing object flickered and flared for a few moments and then faded into darkness, as a man dressed in a complete suit of black, and carrying a lantern emerged from it. The man walked a few paces and stepped into a buggy, which had not been observed before, by either Mr. Inman or his son. There was no horse attached to his supernatural vehicle, but no sooner had the man taken his seat that it started to run, noiselessly but with great velocity, along the highway, and this is continued to do until it reached a steep gully, into which it plunged, when buggy, man and lantern suddenly disappeared as mysteriously as they came.
 
This phenomenon is certainly an extraordinary and unexplainable one, and sounds more like the vagary of a crazed brain than anything else. But both Mr. Inman and his son, who are sober men and not given to superstitious notions, agree precisely in their statements and maintain that they are strictly true. If it was an optical delusion, super-induced by a meteor or “Jack o’ lantern,” is it not strange that the same fancied appearances could be conjured up in the minds of two men at the same time? Here is a chance for scientists to explain the fantastical optical and other illusions and delusions which follow in the train of, and are suggested by, some strange and unexpected sight or occurrence.
 
W. A. Taylor.
Taylor certainly had his doubts, and neither he nor the newspaper seem to have take seriously the account of a man getting out of a meteor and entering a horseless carriage. Indeed, the Herald titled the letter “Very Like a Whale,” a Shakespearian reference to Polonius’s response to Hamlet’s feigned madness, which in the nineteenth century was a figurative way of saying the story was cuckoo bananas.
 
Anyway, Aubeck traveled to Ohio to visit the site of the alleged sighting and to confirm the existence of the various characters in it. Short version: The place is real and so were the people. “The letter describes one of the most fascinating ‘close encounters’ in history,” he writes in Spanish. “It has everything, even witnesses who can be identified and a real place.”
 
Aubeck attempts to analyze the imagery in the story, but I think he overinterprets it a bit. First, he claims that the “blazing object” was a ship that could be compared to those in science fiction novels of the era. To be excruciatingly literal, the original article doesn’t say it was a ship, and one might interpret it as a meteor as well, since in that era many fancifully claimed that various objects or even inscriptions had fallen to Earth inside of meteors. He then investigates how common references to horseless carriages would have been in 1873, though again the idea of a supernatural conveyance need not necessarily require familiarity with automobiles. The infamous “Twelve O’Clock Coach” of Leith, for example, was supposedly a supernatural carriage driven by a headless man and headless horses that appeared at midnight. One with no horses is not much of a stretch. That said, Aubeck documents in perhaps over-lengthy detail the discussions of automobiles and horseless carriages in the newspapers of the 1860s and 1870s, including in the weeks before the supposed sighting, demonstrating that they were familiar enough to serve as a model for a suitably bizarre conveyance.
 
The meat of Aubeck’s research, however, never required him to leave home:
… the real alarm goes off when considering that the letter appeared on April 8. “A week ago” would correspond to April 1, the Day of the Innocents [April Fool’s Day] in the Anglo-Saxon world and France. Any news published on or around this date should be considered suspicious. […] When the postal service was much slower than today, letters sent on April 1 arrived the following week, and would be published one or two days later. (my trans.)
Just for clarification: April Fool’s Day is celebrated, as the name implies, in April in the Anglophone world, but in Spanish-speaking countries, the Day of the Innocents, celebrated on December 28 to mark Herod’s massacre of the young boys of Bethlehem, features a similar festival of pranking and jokes.
 
There is a slight problem in that Taylor’s letter was dated April 5, meaning that his “week ago” corresponded to March 30, but that is probably why Taylor actually said “about a week ago.” It is not entirely clear why Aubeck concludes that a letter sent on April 5 and published on April 8 took a week to arrive. Aubeck concludes that the letter from Taylor was a hoax and that the staff of the Herald published it as an amusement, though they did not create it themselves.
62 Comments
Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 09:35:21 am

Considering this object flies, lands and opens up to reveal a passenger, who gets out, I don’t think calling it a ship is much of a stretch. It fits perfectly in the genre of strange meteorites common to the press at the time, but can’t be classified as anything but transport for its dark-clothed passenger. I also think that if I had _not_ referred to contemporary knowledge or interest in horseless carriages, somebody (eg, you, I suppose) would have called me out for failing to do so. There’s absolutely no pleasing some people.

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Jim
2/12/2020 10:13:59 am

"Considering this object flies, lands and opens up to reveal a passenger, who gets out, I don’t think calling it a ship is much of a stretch."

Where does he say it flies ? He doesn't, not anymore than an apple falling from a tree flies.

Where does it say it lands ? It doesn't. " It struck the ground"

Where does it say it "opens up" ? It doesn't.

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Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 10:33:41 am

Flying? Or perhaps you prefer falling. The point is, it travels through the air:

“they saw a light which they describe as looking like a “burning brush pile,” near the zenith, descending rapidly towards the earth, with a loud roaring noise.”

Landing? Or hitting if you prefer:

“It struck the ground in the road a short distance from them. The blazing object flickered and flared for a few moments”

It opens up? Well, a person exits from it. You may interpret it as you wish:

“and then faded into darkness, as a man dressed in a complete suit of black, and carrying a lantern emerged from it.”

I present the whole story, intact, and provide a skeptical viewpoint. I am don’t dress the story up in any weird way.

Jim
2/12/2020 11:06:47 am

"I present the whole story, intact, and provide a skeptical viewpoint. I am don’t dress the story up in any weird way."

No, you deftly altered the story and implied that it was a craft under a controlled flight and landing. You also added the "opens up" which implies a closed vehicle or UFO.

Anyone quoting your version may, as you have done, add a few more erroneous details and pretty soon the story is unrecognizable.

Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 02:53:33 pm

Jim,

At no point do I say in the article the object opens up, has a door, or anything similar.

At no point do I say in the article that it “lands.” Land, of course, it did in the story.

At no point do I say it was steered or under intelligent control.

I do call the object a “nave” and the passenger a “piloto” but I also immediately say it was similar to a similar fictional meteorite story then in circulation, which involved a very similar situation and a mysterious passenger.

I do give readers the complete original and compare it to several other fictional tales.

Thanks for commenting.

Mark L
2/13/2020 01:53:40 pm

"At no point do I say in the article the object opens up"

Your first comment on this post:

"Considering this object flies, lands and opens up to reveal a passenger, who gets out,"

Sorry for taking your words at face value, I guess?

Jason Colavito link
2/12/2020 12:49:28 pm

Not to be hopelessly pedantic, Chris, but the text doesn't say that the object opened. The text could equally support an egg-like meteor that broke open when it hit the ground. We aren't necessarily justified in reading into an account details that aren't there.

I didn't say you were wrong to talk about automobiles of the 19th century. I just thought that section was much longer than it needed to be to make the point. That's not really a major criticism, just an opinion.

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Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 02:42:42 pm

Well, not to be hopelessly pedantic Jason, but I DO NOT say at any point in the article that it opened or opened up, so I’m not sure what this is all about. Read it again.

However, I DO point out it was similar to meteorite stories.

“Por ejemplo, se puede comparar la nave que vieron los Inman con la que aparece en la novela de Charles Rowcroft (véase el capítulo 4). En ambos casos se asemeja a un meteoro que desciende cerca de los testigos. La luz se apaga y acto seguido se observa un ser humanoide - el piloto - en la oscuridad.”

I might call it a “nave” in Spanish but that’s absolutely as far as I go. It was, however you wish to look at it, transport for the being. In the article I only say the being appeared beside the object that descended, not that it “came out.”

Jr. Time Lord
2/12/2020 03:04:58 pm

"The text could equally support an egg-like meteor that broke open when it hit the ground."

SHAZBOT!

Was this when Mork's race made First Contact? Maybe it was Orson.

Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 03:08:15 pm

It would be awesome if it could support the notion of an egg-like object that cracked open, but it just says it arrived and the being appeared next to it. There are some great Mork-esque tales in 19th century newspapers.

Jim
2/12/2020 04:45:39 pm

Chris, you gotta start getting your story straight.

"it just says it arrived and the being appeared next to it."

No !

" as a man dressed in a complete suit of black, and carrying a lantern emerged from it."

William Fitzgerald
2/12/2020 05:31:05 pm

"Not to be hopelessly pedantic"

Ok, so I'll be. You said: " the Day of the Innocents, celebrated on December 28 to mark Herod’s massacre of the firstborn"

The Bible says:

"When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi." - Matthew 2:16 (NIV).

Note, that Herod ordered the killing of ALL boys, not just firstborn.

You were probably thinking of the passage from Exodus:

"At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well." - Ex. 12:29 (NIV)

Massacre of the Innocents by Herod
2/12/2020 07:19:24 pm

The Bible doesn't say it. Only the Gospel of Matthew. The two nativity stories of Jesus Christ, in Matthew and Luke, are both contradictory and cannot be reconciled together. It is clearly an example of the survival of the hero. First Moses, then transposed by the author of Matthew over Jesus Christ.

Current Biblical scholars regard the nativity story of Jesus Christ in Matthew as being an example of folklore.Because that nativity story is certainly modelled on the story of Moses, that shows it is not folklore but something else.

I don't know what's wrong with [universal] Biblical scholarship that lacks basic insight. There is another statement in the Gospel of Matthew that gives a big clue as to what the author of that particular Gospel in mind that seems to have escaped people.

Herod in Matthew - again
2/12/2020 07:37:54 pm

Note how Herod is criticised in Matthew to do with his immoral marriage to his brother's wife, Matthew did not criticise Herod linking him with Rome, which Christians wanted to appease during the second century, when the gospels were contrived. Note how Pilate is hilariously depicted as a moral person - further evidence that the gospels are far removed from the first century.

Biblical scholars have not addressed any of these factors because it would contradict their agendas.

Jr. Time Lord
2/13/2020 02:59:38 pm

@William and Herod,

You are both taking Astrology literally. Please...STOP!

Mathew= Aquarius
Luke= Taurus
Mark= Leo
John= Scorpio

The massacre is not what you think.

Jesus and Moses are BOTH the sun 🌞. Think of it like a rebranded beer. The label may have changed but the beer inside is still Schlitz.


@Chris Aubeck,

There are many Mork-like similarities to some of these stories and depictions. A couple of craft from this era sound like Zeppelins. Especially the alleged Texas crash.

Nick Danger
2/12/2020 11:05:38 am

I'm interested in the "lantern." It seems unremarkable enough to our 1870-era friends that it must have resembled and shed light as would an ordinary lantern of the time.

This suggests that, assuming the lantern-carrier existed at all, he was a contemporary, and not from some advanced time or place.

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Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 11:28:47 am

I totally agree, at least in the sense that supernatural lamp carriers were pretty common at the time. We can even find tales of aliens using phrenology, very much belonging to that period.

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Gusg
2/12/2020 11:37:18 am

Have you ever conducted phrenology on yourself?

Earliest ??
2/12/2020 12:18:11 pm

This seems to be the earliest reported Close Encounter of the Third Kind. Regardless if it's factual. So it is notable for that reason.

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Intermere by William Alexander Taylor
2/12/2020 12:38:48 pm

If this is the same person
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53193/53193-h/53193-h.htm

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Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 04:19:27 pm

It’s not the first if you include alien corpses or spiritual entities, or people who claimed to come from other planets. But it has all the hallmarks of a good CEIII in the modern sense and should be recognized as such.

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Chris Aubeck's position on this Blog
2/12/2020 07:12:12 pm

W. A. Taylor's story is clearly and obviously that of a Close Encounter of the Third Kind. The statements by the Blogger and posters here saying otherwise is clearly sceptical over-reaching.

It's also an interesting story from the perspective that it resembles later accounts of UFO Contactees.

However, none of this proves that aliens are visiting this planet from other worlds. It shows the emergence of such stories dating from the 19th century.

BBC
2/12/2020 07:26:16 pm

Like the 1980s BBC documentary "The Case of the UFOs" concluded "Don't look at the skies, look at the person telling the story".

Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 08:12:01 pm

I wasn’t going to come back in, but as someone has kindly summarized my position, I’ll provide a summary of the article.

First three paragraphs: I set the scene, our arrival in Philo, Ohio.
Next section: The original letter.
Next section: Evidence that the witnesses and author existed, notes on the location.
Next: Brief description of the two strange vehicles. Comparison with fictional story from the 1840s.
Next: Discussion of electric vehicles in history up to 1880. Important to establish context for a possible hoax.
Next: A look at the date of the letter, discussion of April Fools Day. Important to establish context for a possible hoax.
Next: Conclusion that the story was probably a hoax.
End: We leave Philo.

I literally have no more time for this thread, which seems rather antagonistic despite coinciding with the views of most of those who contribute here. I do not say in my article certain things that have been claimed I did, but it’s not my responsibility to read it for you. I hope at least it has succeeded in bringing an interesting tale to your attention.

Chris Aubeck
2/12/2020 08:14:36 pm

Edit:

Next: Discussion of “horseless” vehicles of various kinds in history up to 1880. Important to establish context for a possible hoax.

Kent
2/13/2020 07:41:20 am

Mr. Aubeck:

You need to get your story straight. It opens up, it doesn't open up, it's a vehicle, it's not a vehicle, it's a floorwax, it's a dessert topping.

You're contradicting yourself all over the shop.

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Bing Bong
2/13/2020 10:10:14 am

It's the first known Close Encounters III
Read it.

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Kent
2/13/2020 10:23:24 am

No.

Chris Aubeck
2/13/2020 10:28:57 am

Hi Kent,

No, I do not need to get my story straight. It’s not my story. You have the original from 1873, above, and my article.

The only time I said the damned object opened was in this thread, in response to Colavito's blog post. He gives the impression I say things in the article that I do not. Then “Jim” decided to troll further, without even looking at my article.

Did the object open? I think it did. It says the being emerged from it. Do I describe the object opening in my article? No, I do not, because it’s not in the original text.

I had zero time to respond yesterday but tried to anyway because this blog post carries my name in the title. It got a little confusing because “Jim” was trying to provoke me into slipping up in some way. I don’t have time for this nonsense so if this happens again, I will just ignore it. I was up till 02:30 AM trying to respond but it won’t happen again.

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Jim
2/13/2020 11:32:06 am

Chris , I don't give a hoot whether you made statements in your article or made statements in the comments you posted here.
The point is you made numerous statements in both places that, as I pointed out, were either erroneous or implied things that were simply not in the original news article.

The object opens up.,,,,,,You made that up !

The object lands,,,,,,,this implies the object is under control.
The actual news story says "It struck the ground".
For context, does one say a bird struck the ground or a bird landed ?

The object flies,,,, again this implies controlled flight,,,, not in the news article,,," descending rapidly towards the earth"
Does an apple, falling from a tree "fly" ?

In your Spanish article you call the object a ship,,,,,,,newspaper article describes it as a "burning brush pile".
Where did "ship" come from ?,,,You made that up.

In your article you called the "man dressed in a complete suit of black" a "pilot". You made that up.

You also commented that:
"it just says it arrived and the being appeared next to it."
This is wrong also as the source says:
"as a man dressed in a complete suit of black, and carrying a lantern emerged from it."

In your article you say "the light goes out" whereas from the source describes it as “burning brush pile” and " The blazing object"

I have simply corrected your subtle and not so subtle alterations from the source material that you have made to change what was actually said.

For this I get called a troll ?

I got news for you buddy, this is a comment section and by definition anyone commenting here is a troll, you included.

If you are so thin skinned that you can't take constructive criticism of errors in your descriptions may I suggest you stop posting and stop having your articles published.

Thanks for commenting.
2/13/2020 11:39:23 am

Thanks for commenting

Kent
2/13/2020 10:53:34 am

This brings to mind an image of you gathering your petticoats and standing on a chair to get away from a mouse.

"Where does it say it "opens up" ? It doesn't." So where did you get:

"Considering this object flies, lands and opens up"

"The only time I said the damned object opened was in this thread"

So you said it, but you said it HERE so it doesn't count?

Your last paragraph is well-known internet code for "Be on the lookout for my next post." I'm guessing withing 24 hours.

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How can it be claimed that no one emerged ??
2/13/2020 01:37:30 pm

a man dressed in a complete suit of black, and carrying a lantern emerged from it

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Joe Scales
2/13/2020 02:05:04 pm

Wasn't that also the opening for the NBC Tuesday Night Mystery Movie?

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War of the Worlds
2/13/2020 02:05:05 pm

HG Wells' novel was about meteorites striking the ground from which emerged martians

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Jim
2/13/2020 02:53:21 pm

From Chris Aubeck's article, (Google translate):

"In 1873, the only air vehicles in operation were hot air balloons, which does not fit the description."

Huh ? the only description is:

" they describe as looking like a “burning brush pile,” near the zenith, descending rapidly towards the earth, with a loud roaring noise."

"The blazing object flickered and flared for a few moments and then faded into darkness,"

How does that not fit a hot air balloon with a gas or other burner to keep it aloft (at night) ?

I hope Chris is happy that I read his article.

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Chris Aubeck
2/13/2020 05:07:58 pm

Nineteenth-century balloons did not roar, they were completely silent because they ran on hydrogen generated by pouring acid over metal shavings. Even when they used air, they did not roar loudly. They did not resemble a burning brush pile. If you'd like to make a case for roaring balloons in 1873 I'd be happy to discuss it.

Thank you for reading the article.

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Only on this blog
2/13/2020 05:19:03 pm

It's only on this blog that its disputed it's a Close Encounter III
Nowhere else

Jim
2/13/2020 05:43:02 pm

"In 1873, the only air vehicles in operation were hot air balloons,"

So now you say hot air balloons were filled with hydrogen ?

Hey Jim
2/13/2020 06:17:16 pm

You're the one who lacks all conviction
Nobody believes you outside of this blog

Chris Aubeck
2/13/2020 06:35:14 pm

No, because I did not write that. That’s Google Translate attempting to translate Spanish. I wrote:

“En 1873, los únicos vehículos aéreos en funcionamiento eran globos aerostáticos, lo cual no encaja con la descripción.”

Globo aerostático is shorthand for an “aerostato” which remains aloft because it is filled with a lighter gas. In Wikipedia we read, for example:

“Un aerostato de gas es un globo aerostático que se mantiene a flote al estar inflado con un gas menos denso (más liviano) que el aire, generalmente helio o hidrógeno.”

That is to say, it refers to a balloon “kept afloat by being inflated with a less dense (lighter) gas than air, usually helium or hydrogen.” Even if your Google Translation of my article had been accurate, which it wasn’t, 19th century balloons simply did not “roar.”

Before I published that article in EOC, I was careful not to say the aerial object had “opened” or it was “steered” and I checked with aviation historians about balloons in the 1870s. You, on the other hand, have based your weak comeback on an automatic translation of my article.

If you have anything substantial to comment, I'll be back. Otherwise, I won’t.

Jim
2/13/2020 09:11:19 pm

Well Chris you are correct that I am not fluent in Spanish, which is why I used google translate to read your article after you complained about me not reading it. I apologize for not learning Spanish rather than just using google translate.

Riddle me this, yes or no, can or does the term "globos aerostáticos" refer to a hot air balloon ?

Does not hot air qualify as a lighter gas,or gas de elevación or lifting gas ?

If I am not mistaken "Aire caliente" means hot air in Spanish, but you are eminently more qualified with the subject than I

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_de_elevaci%C3%B3n

"Gases adecuados para servir como gases elevadores

Aire caliente
Hidrógeno4​
Helio4​
Propano 5​
Vapor
Amonio
Metano
Fluoruro de hidrógeno
Gas de hulla
Acetileno"

Are you being just a little bit disingenuous and trying to take advantage of my limited knowledge of Spanish ?

Gusg
2/14/2020 02:15:29 am

I have a feeling that Chris Aubeck isn’t the first person who’s taken advantage of your limited knowledge.

Jim, Jim, Jim
2/14/2020 03:35:12 am

Jim doesn't know there was a period of time when Scott Wolter didn't believe in that stuff about Templars, Sinclairs and the Jesus Bloodline - when he co-wrote a book with Richard Nielsen that didn't have any of that stuff in it.

Kent
2/14/2020 07:40:39 am

Six and a half hours.

Scott Wolter Timeline
2/14/2020 08:56:54 am

This book "The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence" by Richard Nielsen & Scott Wolter, was published in 2006.

The History Channel documentary “Holy Grail In America” was first aired on September 2009 where Scott Wolter featured as one of the guests and this seems to have been his introduction to the world of quack history.

Richard Nielsen
-“There Is No Grail Code on The Kensington Rune Stone” (Epigraphic Society of Occasional Papers, Volume 27, 2009; Revision 1, 31 August 2010)

https://websites.godaddy.com/blob/65151a46-8ee3-453c-83d3-7b1077c69c9e/downloads/1bjjrugfb_414153.pdf?9c4c3e12

Carlos V
2/14/2020 06:24:59 am

I’m a Spanish engineer. Chris is completely right. Jim is speaking from his ass, enough to inflate a balloon.

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Carlos V
2/14/2020 06:28:07 am

I’m a Spanish engineer. Chris is completely right. Jim is speaking from his ass, enough to inflate a balloon.

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Jim
2/14/2020 09:12:28 am

Uh huh.

https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/aerostato#/media/Archivo:Luftballong.jpg

UH UH - AGAIN
2/14/2020 09:56:35 am

An obvious Close Encounter III

CARLOS V
2/14/2020 11:58:55 am

Jim, the photo is clearly labeled aerostáticos de aire caliente, one kind of balloon nowadays common. This was not the case of 1870s.

To understand your point:

You're arguing that an April Fool fiction that clearly doesn’t describe a balloon was in reality (!?) a balloon, and that Aubeck (who rules out any balloons) was also referring to a hot air balloon?

What is wrong with you exactly?

Jim
2/14/2020 12:53:12 pm

"Jim, the photo is clearly labeled aerostáticos de aire caliente,"

No, it is clearly labeled "Globos aerostáticos de aire caliente", where Chris would have you believe "Globos aerostáticos" does not refer to a hot air balloon.

I think we can all agree that the story is bs,
The point, since you can't seem to figure it out for yourself is that Chris has oversold his UFO angle and using a ever changing story and a lot of poetic license has built that angle into something that wasn't in the original.
He has made a mountain out of a molehill.

This is much like the Oak Island boys making a big hullabaloo about the Roman sword that anyone with a lick of sense knew was a fake and then trying to claw back credibility by making a big hullabaloo out of proving it to be a fake.
Chris is the one trying to gain credibility off of a 19th century April fools prank by over selling it.

Jr. Anthony Warren
2/14/2020 12:54:48 pm

"The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. The first hot-air balloon flown in the Americas was launched from the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia on January 9, 1793 by the French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard."

So lonely.

Story is by W. A. Taylor.
2/14/2020 01:00:54 pm

The story is not by Chris Aubeck

CARLOS V
2/14/2020 01:36:50 pm

Jim, Aubeck is not over selling anything. In fact the article is in a low circulation magazine in Spanish, there is no money paid. Aubeck receives no fame for it, and he doesn’t say it’s a UFO at all. There is no credibility at issue. He doesn’t claim anything except it is a hoax, the same as Colavito.

The Spanish article is low-key. Aubeck did not even ask for this blog post.

The only poetic license is from YOU. Only YOU said Aubeck claims the object was steered. He even gives all readers the original 1873 article for them to judge. He very carefully does not describe the object opening in the article because Taylor did not mention it. He only said it here in this blog because it is very clearly implied in the story:- the passenger emerged from one vehicle to enter another.

Only YOU did the sloppy research with a google translate and inventing things he does not say.

Racist Anglophile
2/14/2020 02:48:55 pm

The confusion here stems from the fact that the Spanish speaking world is scientifically backward and there is no practical need for their language to distinguish the difference between hot air and elements like hydrogen and helium that are lighter than air — as far as their primitive minds are concerned, it’s all the same thing.

Not a balloon
2/14/2020 01:22:40 pm

This shows Chris Aubeck was right about Taylor's story not being about a balloon.

https://www.quora.com/Were-19th-century-hot-air-balloons-silent?ch=10&share=1c7f3705&srid=tABj

William May
William May, studied at Northrop Institute of Technology
Answered Feb 13, 2020 · Author has 288 answers and 1.3m answer views
Yes. Hot air was only used occasionally.

Most 19th century balloons were filled with hydrogen. All the balloons used by the U.S. Balloon Service in the Civil War were filled with hydrogen. It was easy to generate, by pouring sulfuric acid over metal shavings. They had wagons that carried the acid, and other wagons that carried the metal shavings, and then special gas wagons for mixing the two and generating the hydrogen.

The balloons were all silent, except for any noise the crew might have made.


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Jim
2/14/2020 02:25:07 pm

Here is an example of a hydrogen balloon looking like a burning brush pile and making a loud roaring noise whist it descends rapidly towards the earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWeO1q0gHJE

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Here is an example
2/14/2020 03:38:30 pm

Here is an example of the only Blog that cannot understands what it reads

Jim
2/15/2020 09:48:47 am

The sad and highly publicized story of Sophie Blanchard whose hydrogen-filled balloon, in 1819, caught fire and descended rapidly to crash on a rooftop in Paris. Ironically she "emerged" from the crash only to fall off the roof and die of a broken neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Blanchard

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Jim is an example
2/14/2020 04:47:58 pm

Jim is an example of someone who hopes to get back some credibility in a thread by proving an irrelevant point.

I’m no fan of Jacques Vallee but Aubeck is doing some great work. He’s digging through old microfilms showing UFOlogy evolved from urban legends and hoaxes, what’s not to like?

Sounds like Jim actually wants this tale to be true. You show us Jim! Show us that balloons roared like lions across Ohio skies!

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Kent
2/15/2020 07:22:38 am

Jim is our leader. Please show him the appropriate respect.

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