{"id":158,"date":"2019-11-06T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/?p=158"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:02:21","slug":"11-04-19-the-airships-ufos-in-the-1890s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/2019\/11\/06\/11-04-19-the-airships-ufos-in-the-1890s\/","title":{"rendered":"11.04.19. The Airships: UFOs in the 1890s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_890\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-158-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/110419_The_Airships_-_UFOs_in_the_1890s.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/110419_The_Airships_-_UFOs_in_the_1890s.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/110419_The_Airships_-_UFOs_in_the_1890s.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/110419_The_Airships_-_UFOs_in_the_1890s.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=158-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/110419_The_Airships_-_UFOs_in_the_1890s.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"110419_The_Airships_-_UFOs_in_the_1890s.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/subscribe\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><p>This week on\u00a0<em>The Micah Hanks Program<\/em>, we lead off with a story of odd magic and the strange disappearance of the famous &#8220;Wizard Rock&#8221; bolder in Arizona, and the even more unusual <em>reappearance <\/em>of the massive stone several days later. We also touch on the &#8220;secret&#8221; society known as Freemasonry, and why they aren&#8217;t actually as mysterious (anymore) as many would think.<\/p>\n<p>Then getting to the heart of our conversation, we turn our attention back to a familiar topic, but with new questions: a flap of sightings in the skies over America between 1896 and 1897 of odd &#8220;airships&#8221; of unexplained origin. What was the source of lights that were being reported in various parts of the country, first in Sacramento, California, and later further East and in other locales? Many alleged inventors were appearing in the popular press of that era, some of whom had actually published designs for flying vehicles with the U.S. Patent Office.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that some of the strange reports of lights, and even large cigar-shaped aircraft resembling dirigibles, could have been the result of intrepid inventors who were ahead of the aviation innovation game over America by a few years? If so, what can we learn about the broader UFO phenomenon from taking a historic approach to the study of odd things seen in the skies over time?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are links to stories featured in this week&#8217;s episode:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/nov\/03\/blue-space-living-near-water-good-secret-of-happiness\">Science says living by water is good for you<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/ny-wizard-rock-boulder-arizona-returns-20191103-cpqx6bc6ijb7vcazawttkqlo6u-story.html\">Giant &#8216;Wizard Rock&#8217; Boulder Mysteriously Disappears And Reappears in Arizona<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/post-tribune\/opinion\/ct-ptb-davich-freemasons-not-a-secret-society-st-1104-20191101-alqxawaawzgohh7m226ocr3a5q-story.html\">Psssttt&#8230; Masonic Freemasons\u2019 secrets are not as mysterious as you think<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gralienreport.com\/x\">BECOME AN X SUBSCRIBER AND GET EVEN MORE GREAT PODCASTS AND MONTHLY SPECIALS FROM MICAH HANKS.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-midtext\">Sign up today and get access to the entire back catalog of<strong>\u00a0The Micah Hanks Program,\u00a0<\/strong>as well as \u201cclassic\u201d episodes of\u00a0<em>The Gralien Report Podcast,<\/em>\u00a0weekly \u201cadditional editions\u201d of the subscriber-only\u00a0<em><strong>X Podcast,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the monthly\u00a0<strong>Enigmas\u00a0<\/strong>specials, and much more.<\/div>\n<p>Like us on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GralienReport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MicahHanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@MicahHanks<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>Follow Micah on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/micah_hanks\/?hl=en\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we look at a historical UFO mystery, involving a flap of sightings in the skies over America between 1896 and 1897 of odd &#8220;airships&#8221; of unexplained origin.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/2019\/11\/06\/11-04-19-the-airships-ufos-in-the-1890s\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,121,127,124,125,10,4,123,126],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>11.04.19. 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