Some more UFO stuff

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April 19, 1897, the famous Alexander Hamilton cow napping hoax! This case even fooled Ufologist Jacque Vallee for a long time. It was a hoax that was committed by a 'liars club'. Admitted a few weeks later in the newspaper.



Airship History - The Kansas Calfnapping Hoax of 1897

10:30 p.m. Rancher Alexander Hamilton, his son Will, and his hired hand Gid Heslip are awakened by a noise in the cattle pen of their ranch at Yates Center, Kansas.



They watch as a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped airship with a carriage underneath descends to about 30 feet above the ground. Two men, a woman, and three children are heard talking in the carriage.



They see a calf caught in a nearby fence with a cable knotted around its neck that connects to the airship above. They cut the cable and the airship floats away. A few weeks later, Hamilton admits he made the story up.





Source: Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, pp. 130, 593.


Source: Jerome Clark, "The Great Airship Hoax", Fate magazine, pg 94-97 (February 1977). (I don't have the last page)



Source: Jerome Clark, "The Leroy, Kansas, Calfnapping Hoax of 1897", Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977)



Source: "Revelations in 1897 Kansas 'Calfnapping'" The A.P.R.O. Bulletin 25, no. 12 (June 1977)



Source: Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, 1981, Chapter 7,  pp. 92–102.
You can read it here: The Great Kansas Cownapping





"Cigar-Shaped UFO Abducting a Cow Was Witnessed in 1897 by Kansas Rancher Alexander Hamilton and Others," Eyes on Cinema YouTube channel, November 18, 2023. In this video: Jacques Vallée and Frank Edwards.