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A STRANGE STORY-REMARKABLE DISCOVERY 

Missouri Democrat

10-19-1865

     Mr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping at the Everett House for several days, makes a most remarkable statement to us, and one which, if authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the scientific world.

 

     Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September, he was engaged in trapping in the mountains about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri, and in the neighborhood of what is known as Cadotte Pass. Just after sunset one evening, he beheld a bright luminous body in the heavens, which moved with great rapidity in an easterly direction. It was plainly visible for at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated into particles, resembling, as Mr. Lumley describes it, the bursting of a sky-rocket in the air. A few minutes later, he heard a heavy explosion, which jarred the earth very perceptibly, and this was shortly after followed by a rushing sound, like a tornado sweeping through the forest. A strong wind sprang up about the same time, but suddenly subsided. The air was also filled with a peculiar odor of a sulphurous character.

 

Read more here at: http://www.theufochronicles.com/2005/10/1865-trapper-reports-witnessing-crash.html

 

Its interesting to see such an old account of a UFO, especially with it documented in the newspaper. 

~Ophelia

• anonymoustache

  Now-
  apiece from 1865:
  A new record for
  “Before it’s News”!….

  Oct 21, 2012, 2:03 am 0 Reply