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In this episode, we're talking about an 18 and 97 cattle
abduction. That's correct, an 1897 cattle
abduction. It's a lot of cool source
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It doesn't cost anything, so I found a pretty cool short video
on it that you can look at, which I linked over there.
But then I also found this really cool article from UFO Nut
that goes into some pretty good detail on it.
It says Alexander Hamilton and the 1897 UFO Cattle Mutilation
Incident. This is written February 18th,
2016 by Chuck Sukowski. It begins by saying that
Alexander Hamilton, a local Kansas rancher, personally
experienced a UFO sighting which escalated into one of our most
documented cattle mutilation cases in 1897.
Then, it says, on April 23rd, 1897, the Kansas Farmer Advocate
published a story about a phenomenal event experienced by
Alexander Hamilton, a local rancher living in Kansas.
After the article was published, it was reprinted in newspapers
all over America and Europe in his book Anatomy of Phenomena by
researcher Jacques Valet. Back in 1965, Jacques brought
this article into the media limelight.
Later in years some publications, including Fate
magazine, concluded the event was a hoax due to Alexander
Hamilton being part of an elite group of citizens known as the
Liars Club. Their information came from a
1943 article from a Kansas newspaper called The Buffalo
Enterprise in which Misses Donna Stevie of Wichita, KS wrote that
her 93 year old mother, Ethel L Shaw, when younger, had actually
heard the tale from Hamilton himself and he admitted it was
all a hoax. Now, you know, I don't mean to
doubt this moment, but sometimes stories like this, they come up
with these parallel narratives 4050 years later, and we really
never know if they're true or not, it says Here, Hamilton had
signed an affidavit notarized by 10 notable members of the
community of Leroy, Kansas, where they lived.
The affidavit was dated April 21st, 1897, and Hamilton staked
his quote, sacred, sacred honor, on the truth of the event.
Not to discredit Fate magazine and Ethel Shaw, but let's look
at Camilton's tale and then compare it to what happened in
the general area of Kansas last year, December of 2015 and the
beginning of this year, January 2016.
Wow. So what he's doing here, I think
it's just he's going to compare these Catalmulations from 1897
and even before, and then compare that to what happened,
you know, 100 and what 1617 years later when these
catalmulations are still going on.
He says his source here is the great airship mystery of this is
a UFO of the 1890s. Daniel Cohen.
And you can also see this at the video over there at the at the
at the Odyssey that I'd think to and buy me a coffee.
It begins here with the affidavit these guys signed.
Pretty neat. It says last Monday night, about
10:30, we were awakened by a noise among the cattle.
I arose thinking that perhaps my bulldog was performing pranks,
but upon going to the door saw to my utter astonishment that an
airship was slowly descending upon my cat lot, about 40 rods
at 600 feet from the house. Now look, I'm going to do this.
I'll read a couple of paragraphs here in the background of these
airships. It's 1897.
Yes, airships had been invented, first one in 1852, but you have
to think about the tremendous expense of these things and the
limited range. Still 1897, so I think we can
safely rule out that this thing was man made and he goes on, he
says, calling my tenant GID Heslop and my son Wall.
We see some axes and rent to the corral.
Meanwhile, the ship had been gently descending until it was
not more than 30 feet above the ground and we came within 50
yards of it. It consisted of a great cigar
shaped portion, possibly 300 feet long, with a carriage
underneath. The carriage was made of glass
or some other transparent substances, alternating with a
narrow strip of some material. It was brightly lighted within
and everything was plainly visible.
It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I've ever seen.
They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a
word they said. So that tells me that this thing
would have been pretty close if they can see the people were
entities in there walking about inside this cabin or whatever
this thing was. Every part of the vessel which
was not transparent was of a dark reddish color.
We stood mute with wonder and fright.
Then some noise attracted their attention and they turned the
light directly upon us. Immediately on catching sight of
us, they turned on some unknown power and a great turbine wheel
about 30 feet in diameter, which was revolving slowly below.
The craft began to buzz and the vessel rose lightly as a bird
when about 300 feet above us it seemed to pause and a hover
directly above a 2 year old heifer which was bawling and
jumping apparently fast in the fence.
Going to her we found some material fastened in a Slipknot
around her neck and going up to the vessel from the heifer
tangled in the wire fence. We tried to get it off her but
could not. So we cut the wire loose to see
the ship heifer at all rise, slowly disappearing in the
northwest. So in the in the video they
talked about how he sent the hired hand over to try to cut
this calf loose. He said it was attached to this
cable which was attached to the ship.
The hired hand goes over, but instead of cutting the cable, it
cuts the fence itself. Next thing you know this poor
calf is being drawn up into the ship, he says.
We went home, but I was so frightened I could not sleep.
Rising early Tuesday, I started out on my horse, hoping to find
some trace of my cow. This I failed to do, but coming
back in the evening found that link.
Thomas, about 3 or 4 miles West of Leroy, had found the hide,
legs and head in his field that day.
He, thinking that someone had butchered a stolen beast, had
brought the hide to town for identification, but was greatly
mystified not being able to find any tracks in a soft ground.
After identifying the hide by my brand, I went home.
But every time I would drop to sleep I would see the cursive
thing with this big lights and hideous people.
I don't know whether they are devils or angels or what, but we
all saw them and my whole family saw the ship and I don't want
any more to do with them. Now that's a pretty interesting
story. It goes on here.
It says analysis of the story. The description of the craft
mimics airships of that time period, the first flown by Andre
Gifford in 1852 which was steam powered.
OK, I'm not sure really because he talks about this cigar shaped
UFO and these people walking right inside of it.
If you look at pictures of the old well this thing that was
that was produced by Henri Gifford in 1852.
It First off it talks about it just being like a bag of air
basically. It does have this like I think
it's like a £350 steam engine basically below us.
So it did create quite a bit of lift, especially for 1852, but
the maiden voyage that I read about it only flew like 20
miles. It's got, you know, ropes
dangling off of it. It looks like it looks like a
like a steampunk work of art. Really.
It's it's hard to make it even fly.
But apparently it did. We get into the Zeppelin stuff
now these things are super expensive.
I from when I've read $3,000,000 to build the first one, you
could imagine who would even be able to afford to do that in
Kansas, you know, in the 1890s. And the Zeppelins didn't come
along until I think around 18971898.
We're going to look at an article on that here in a
minute. Anyway, it goes on and says it
consisted of a great cigar shaped portion, possibly 300
feet long. Cigar shaped UFOs are still
being seen today as at this writing course the authors
talking about 2016. The National UFO Reporting
Center has eight listings so far in 2016 from Seattle, WA down to
Eagle River, Arkansas with two separate sightings reported in
Joplin, MO. There's over 2500 cigar shaped
cases reported on this website and we've talked about them a
lot. You know, when we do the UFO
roundups, they're still seeing these cigar shaped UFOs even
today. It goes on.
It says animal mutilation at the airship picks up a cow, and then
cow parts were found three to four miles West of Leroy and
appeared to have been dropped due to leaving no tracks and the
soft ground. If that story wasn't enough, in
volume 38 #11 of Fate magazines, issued November of 1985 was
printed a story called Cattle Killing UFO of 1896.
One year before Hamilton's story, in August of 1896, in
Howell County, Missouri, a family experienced a UFO
encounter, the excerpts from the Fate magazine article read.
It says All at once we saw flashing lights.
At first we thought they were a star shower, but the star stayed
in a circle as if they were all strung together like bees.
The circle of lights just kept whirling and falling toward us.
I ran to my mother and clung to her skirts, crying and shaking
so hard that I could barely stand.
It stopped and hovered over the barn.
We can now see it was a large saucer, like craft.
It's lights were blinding. The whole barn lit up like day.
Remember 1896? My father grabbed up the baby
who was sleeping on a pallet, and we fled into the house.
The next morning when Ben took his dog Cappy and went out to
the pasture to bring up the milk cows as he always did, he came
running back to the house, scared out of his wits.
In a large patch of burned grass were three of our steers laying
dead on the ground. The father then examined the
stairs and noticed they were completely drained of blood
before back in 1896 or finding these things drained in blood.
Then it goes on and says for a complete version of the article
please contact Fate magazine. Wow really neat real animal
mutilation cases consisting of the following It says animals
picked up at a location A, then mutilated at location B, then
placed at location C We see this all the time.
Animal found with usual lesions and lack of blood.
Animal appears to have been dropped or placed.
No animal struggle evidence found, no predator takedown
evidence found, no human evidence found, no tracks of any
kind. Sometimes strange lights are
seen in the area before and after the mutilation.
Yeah, I think a lot of time people misinterpret these as
helicopters, he says. So we have two possible
mutilation cases occurring in 1896 and one in 1897.
Both talk about a purposed UFO and both sightings result in
cattle deaths. But wait, there's more to this,
it says. And then it says.
The Hamilton mutilation occurred at around 38° by 95 and then the
Missouri around 36 by 91. So they were basically straight
across from each other. On December 21st, 2015, it says
KWCH News 12 out of Kansas reported a Newton KS rancher
found one of his bulls dead 1/4 of a mile into his pasture on
the 18th. The animal sex organs have been
removed. The Harvey County Sheriff's
investigated the incident and found no traces of cause of
death and it's classifying this as an animal cruelty case or non
animal related. So in other words they looked at
this thing and they could see that it wasn't a predator taking
this thing down. On January 2nd, 2016 Harvey
County Sheriff's Department Facebook page stated another cow
had been found dead in McPherson County, Kansas.
It's eyeballs have been removed. Other similar damage mimicked
the Newton case. And so then, you know, basically
it says you have 4 cases here he goes on and talks about his own
cases he found and he gives a region here kind of from
Colorado over to Central Missouri, down from the extreme
northwest corner of Iowa, maybe getting into Kansas.
There it's almost like this kind of a hot spot area for cattle
mutilations. He concludes by saying obviously
there's been a lot of research by good people on the Hamilton
airship case and the overall consensus is he indeed lied.
But what if he didn't? How accurate is a second hand
witness testimony? If it's just it's just
circumstantial evidence which allows for more than one
explanation. Did he lie or did he in fact
experience an experimental airship stealing one of his
cows? Or did he see something else?
Well, I mean this is 2016. This guy does a lot of good
work. I really respect his opinion.
I'm not sure he lied. I mean, yeah, the, the
granddaughter, whatever came forward.
But look, there were multiple people that said they witnessed
this thing and then you have this dead, mutilated calf that
was apparently turned in, was reported at least by the
newspaper. So I have to ask, I mean how
could this lie have held up for 43 years?
I mean, he makes report in 1947 and then what was it, 1943 or
something? They come along with a parallel
narrative saying, OK, well, he belonged to the Liars club.
This is all made-up. It seems to me like somebody
would have uncovered this a lot sooner than, you know, 46 years
later. Another thing that leads me to
think that this is true. Like I said, you have the
evidence of this mutilated calf, if that.
If nobody found the calf, surely somebody would have come
forward. I mean, he names his neighbor as
having turned this calf in to the to the sheriff.
So who mutilated the caftan? If this is all just made-up and
at some point, wouldn't one of those hired hands come forward
and said something? I mean, you would have had to
imagine there was some bit of public derision and criticism
over this. It's hard to imagine that you
could have held a conspiracy like that together for so long.
I mean, we know how long it is. It's extremely difficult when
you get more than 3456 people together, you know, lying about
the same thing since his family saw it.
Well, wouldn't somebody else in the family come forward at some
point and say something? Would it take him 43 years?
I mean really I have to look at this saying yes, I know it's
really weird to think of us UFO coming down, but I also think
it's really weird this guy would just make this up and get all
these other people to go along with it and manufacture the
evidence by mutilating this this calf himself.
I don't know posing it there somehow overnight for his
neighbor to find it. I think it seems like the the
longer the more time that's that has that has expired between the
sighting and where we're at like 40-50 years, the easier it
becomes to disparage the account and cast out on it.
Myself I have to go with the evidence on this.
We have multiple eyewitnesses. We have affidavits for people,
you know, verifying that he's of a good character And then 43
years later or 46 years later, we have someone come along and
say no, I heard differently. So this is definitely a strange
case, but it's surrounded by many other mutilation case much
just like this. Now I just want to take a look
at what is involved in making an airship in 1897 because
sometimes we hear people say, well, this is a man made
airship. Is that even a possibility?
Now, looking at this whole notion of whether or not people
could have had dredgeables that could do this sort of thing back
in 1897, it doesn't seem likely to me.
I mean, we can look at botanica.com where they're
talking about the, you know, the creation.
The first invention of these, dredgeable tells us that the
first successful airship was constructed by Henry Gifford of
France in 1852, and Gifford built, it says, a £350 steam
engine capable of developing 3 horsepower, sufficient to turn a
large propeller at 110 revolutions per minute.
To carry the engine away, he filled a bag 140 feet, 144 feet
long with hydrogen and ascending from the Paris Hippodrome, flew
at a speed of 6 mph to cover distance of 20 miles.
So it was kind of a one off thing.
It wasn't like he's flying around, you know, the middle of
Kansas somewhere looking for heifers to pick up.
I'm not seeing the kind of control here demonstrated by
this UFO that was reported by this Alexander Hamilton in 1897
and then tells us In 1872 a German engineer, Paul Hanlon
first used an internal combustion engine for flight in
an airship that used lifting gas from the bag of fuel.
In 1883, Albert and Gaston Tenzadier of France became the
1st to successfully power an airship using an electric motor.
The first rigid airship was a hull of aluminum sheeting was
built in Germany in 1897 and that, says Albert de Santos
DuMont and Brazilian living in Paris, set a number of records
in a series of 14 non rigid gasoline powered airships that
he built from 1898 to 19 O 5. So you had these things you
know, in Europe, not really talking about them in the United
States in 19 and you know 1897. But Even so he describes this
thing as being this giant cigar shaped craft that you could look
into. Not like a giant bag, you know,
like a cloth bag of air or thin aluminum sheeting where you had
a gondola hanging from it. It's like he's talking about
like an actual shift that is control, very precisely going up
and down and that can lift this, this heifera.
From there, what he's describing is, you know, it has about as
much in common with an airship. Let's say a jetliner would today
with a Wright Brothers aircraft, what he's describing as way, way
further advance than anything that was available even in
Europe at that time. So he's describing an actual
constructed spaceship. It's clearly it's not one of
these, you know, cloth bags filled with hydrogen.
And then it goes on talks a little bit about the 20s and
30s. We have another article here
from New York Times. It says it's talking about the
Zeppelin and this, the cost of of how much it it was to rebuild
this thing. I mean, we're talking about
millions and millions of dollars.
I'll post that. You can take a look at it.
And then finally we have an article here talking a little
bit more about the history of some of these things and the
first Zeppelin and how much it cost.
I mean, it was so expensive that we had to have people in the, in
the, in the noble class had to mortgage their estates to fund
these things. I mean, you're talking about
what would be the equivalent of millions of dollars today.
If you look at the history of the Zeppelin itself, it actually
didn't come around to 1898. And if you look at this article
on airships.net, it will tell you it says that the first
Zeppelin's LZ one through LZ four, and this is probably the
closest thing that would approximate what what this
Alexander Hamilton claimed to have seen.
It says Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin began construction of
his first airship, LZ One, in June of 1898 in a floating
wooden hangar on Bonisce Lake Constance at Mansell Frederick
Schaffen in southern Germany, not far from the Swiss border.
The movable floating shed allowed the ship to be
positioned in the wind to enter or leave its hangar.
So you had to have really specialized places, even the
land the same, it says. The ship was completed in the
winter of 1899. But von Zeppelin decided to wait
until the summer of 1900 before attempting to fly his invention.
The ship was inflated with hydrogen gas in June and made
his maiden flight on July 2nd, 1900.
The first flight lasted about 18 minutes and covered about 3 1/2
miles over the lake. So clearly this thing's not
flying any kind of great distances.
And clearly it didn't even take flight until 1899 or 1900,
rather the summer of 1900. That's three years after the
sighting in 1897 or 1896 there in Kansas or Kansas and
Missouri. Rather, it says the LZ loose
shift. Zeppelin One was 420 feet long,
38 1/2 feet in diameter and contain approximately 399,000
cubic feet of hydrogen and 17 gas cells.
Made a rubberized cotton fabric, 2 metal gondolas or suspended
below the ship, one forward and one aft, and each gondola housed
A4 cylinder. Water cooled Daimler gasoline
engine producing about 14 horsepower.
Each engine was connected by long shafts to Outrigger
propellers mounted on either side of the hull.
Pitch was controlled by a sliding weight suspended under
the hull, which could be shifted for an aft.
There were no elevators for pitch control or fins or
stability. So you're talking about
something that even though it might have been really super
advanced for its time, it's still really primitive,
especially when you consider what the Experiencers swore that
they saw in this UFO encounter in 1897.
The Count's second ship was was not built until five years later
with funds partly raised from a lottery approved as a favor by
the King of Wittenberg and partly by the mortgages of Count
Count of Zeppelin's family estates.
So that kind of gives you an idea.
Yeah, like I said, I read this thing into Tatay's dollars would
have been like $3,000,000 to build this thing.
So we're not talking about somebody putting together a
ultralight in their garage, OK? It's just goes beyond any scope
of believability for me that this thing could have been
floating around in Kansas in 1896 and 1897 for someone to
see. And even if it was OK, even if
we give the debunkers the benefit of the doubt and go
clear out on a limb here and say, well, some random Kansas
farmer had invented this dredgeable 3 years before it was
it was built there in southern Germany.
Even if we go out on a limb and say that, it still doesn't match
the description of what the experience just saw.
What they saw was this cigar shaped UFO and they talked about
seeing and hearing entities walking around inside of this
thing. Strange stuff even in 1897.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning Over now.