tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post760856352462129429..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: Jefferson Airship - 1897KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-2924264493106591912018-12-28T17:44:32.641-08:002018-12-28T17:44:32.641-08:00Douglas Hoyt -
I hope you have clicked on the pho...Douglas Hoyt -<br /><br />I hope you have clicked on the photograph to get the whole thing. It was partially cropped by blogger. That might provide a better perspective. I just can't see why they would have faked this back in 1897... If it was from the modern world, then I would have no problem. The photo is authentic... the airship is not.KRandlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-9171594718458989252018-12-28T16:11:04.212-08:002018-12-28T16:11:04.212-08:00Another strange feature of this photograph are the...Another strange feature of this photograph are the 5 stick-like shadows to the left of the craft, but there are no objects in the photograph that could have caused such shadows. Perhaps there was an original photo with 5 poles or sticks casting such shadows, but the craft photo was laid on top of it.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557526234030543948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-10401966863343830222018-12-28T05:35:41.730-08:002018-12-28T05:35:41.730-08:00Look closely at the shadow of the man on the right...Look closely at the shadow of the man on the right. It points towards the craft, but the shadows of the craft point more in the direction of the camera.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557526234030543948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-3199655588596096862018-12-27T17:25:35.577-08:002018-12-27T17:25:35.577-08:00Douglas Hoyt -
Don't think you're right o...Douglas Hoyt -<br /><br />Don't think you're right on that. Besides, the photograph is from the Waterloo Courier in 1897. Not sure how they would have faked it at that time.KRandlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-52254626640249133052018-12-27T10:10:21.021-08:002018-12-27T10:10:21.021-08:00The shadows of the people go in one direction and ...The shadows of the people go in one direction and the shadows of the ship in a different direction. Looks like a fake photograph of some sort.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557526234030543948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-8130227444689607902018-12-23T16:33:31.377-08:002018-12-23T16:33:31.377-08:00Weren't they a rock group in the 1960s . . . ?...Weren't they a rock group in the 1960s . . . ?David From AUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06660258416933875373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-46779316202608355892018-12-23T14:52:26.269-08:002018-12-23T14:52:26.269-08:00mouse -
You will understand in the next segment.....mouse -<br /><br />You will understand in the next segment... I should have said, "He also mentioned that the last paragraph seemed to suggest the tale, which had begun on the front page, was a hoax." The story was continued to the fourth page.KRandlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-15248534163327089722018-12-23T14:34:08.134-08:002018-12-23T14:34:08.134-08:00"He also mentioned that the last paragraph se...<br />"He also mentioned that the last paragraph seemed to suggest the tale, which had been printed on the front page, was a hoax."<br /><br />I don't understand how this last paragraph actually suggests a "hoax" ? The entire 'story' is preposterous !<br /><br />But furthermore, is the photo from "Waterloo" in the original 'report' ? Doesn't make sense .... and that event is certainly a 'hoax' .<br />The Airships of '97 is a fascinating subject -much more needs to be 'uncovered' . We need to find some biographies of those who were writing/reporting during these times ....mouseonmoon mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920006114625021133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-68531009822415573222018-12-23T07:14:11.399-08:002018-12-23T07:14:11.399-08:00Seems worth mentioning that April 1897 is the same...Seems worth mentioning that April 1897 is the same month the first installment of The War of the Worlds was serialized in magazines both in England and America. The Jefferson story resembles the description of the first Martian landing quite a bit. (The ship buries itself, people climb down into the pit, try to pry a door open, the assumption that it's from Mars.) Scott Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01239391361895323698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-25166014614949553222018-12-23T01:01:17.026-08:002018-12-23T01:01:17.026-08:00"The airship had been sounded. [Yes, that is ..."The airship had been sounded. [Yes, that is what it said. I don’t understand it.]"<br /><br />Seems to be naval-like terminology of those days. The depth of water beneath a ship was measured by a "sounding" in which a weighted line was lowered into the water until it went slack. The length of played out line told the fathoms of depth. The depth was "sounded". The word with this meaning evidently developed from "sund" and has no connection to the word "sound" for noise. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_sounding#Terminology<br /><br />One wonders if such tall tales actually derived from any kernel of other more honest reports. I think Jerry Clark argues that some airship reports seem to have been along the lines of anomalous encounters in which the experiencer was convinced of the veracity of the event that seemed to occur in consensus reality, though with weird additions that do not conform to consensus reality.William Strathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01641055950393700958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-4022477192111393632018-12-22T17:06:00.538-08:002018-12-22T17:06:00.538-08:00"Sounded" like when the Navy dropped a w..."Sounded" like when the Navy dropped a weight on a rope to determine the water depth. This is called "Sounding". Riverboats had a special crew that did this, just look up where Samuel Clemons' pen name came from....Water depth was measured in Fathoms in those times..vonmazurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14765548332103795627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-60678842455373847562018-12-22T14:32:30.411-08:002018-12-22T14:32:30.411-08:00It’s my understanding that the newspapers of the t...It’s my understanding that the newspapers of the time simply wrote stories like this ‘for the fun of it’ to increase circulation and everyone knew these were ‘made up stories’.<br /><br />mouseonmoon mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920006114625021133noreply@blogger.com