Great Airship Wave Begins in California

Hundreds of residents of Sacramento, California reported a bright light moving slowly over the city, apparently attached to a dark cigar-shaped craft. The sighting was reported on the front page of the Sacramento Bee. Over the following months, similar reports spread across the western and central United States, with sightings documented by newspapers in at least 19 states. The wave is the first large-scale UFO flap in American history, occurring seven years before the Wright Brothers' first powered flight.