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Flights of Fancy (Phantom Airships, UFOs, and the Promise of Flight in the 1890s)
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Product Details
Author:
Jason Charbonneau
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
336
Publisher:
Dundurn Press (May 25, 2027)
Imprint:
Dundurn Press
Release Date:
May 25, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781459758285
ISBN-10:
1459758285
Weight:
1oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 1"
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PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260630174312-20260630.xml
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PGW
List Price:
$21.99
Country of Origin:
Canada
Case Pack:
40
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$18.91
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Pub Discount:
60
Overview
A deep dive into the wave of “phantom airship” sightings from 1896 to 1897 and what it tells us about the UFO mystery.
Seven years before the Wright brothers’ first flights at Kitty Hawk, thousands of people across the U.S. and Canada saw mysterious phantom airships performing spectacular aerial manoeuvres, and many claimed to meet their pilots. There were hundreds of sightings documented in thousands of newspaper columns, mostly between the fall of 1896 and the spring of 1897. To this day, the sightings remain unexplained, and historians of aviation agree that any such flights would have been impossible at the time.
Flights of Fancy offers a comprehensive review of the airship sightings and explores the cultural context in which they occurred, demonstrating how the sightings were shaped by mythology, science fiction, and a rapidly increasing faith in technology. Though the mystery airships were distinctly of their time, they were not so different from the flying saucers and other UFOs that once again dominated the headlines after 1947.
Seven years before the Wright brothers’ first flights at Kitty Hawk, thousands of people across the U.S. and Canada saw mysterious phantom airships performing spectacular aerial manoeuvres, and many claimed to meet their pilots. There were hundreds of sightings documented in thousands of newspaper columns, mostly between the fall of 1896 and the spring of 1897. To this day, the sightings remain unexplained, and historians of aviation agree that any such flights would have been impossible at the time.
Flights of Fancy offers a comprehensive review of the airship sightings and explores the cultural context in which they occurred, demonstrating how the sightings were shaped by mythology, science fiction, and a rapidly increasing faith in technology. Though the mystery airships were distinctly of their time, they were not so different from the flying saucers and other UFOs that once again dominated the headlines after 1947.
