tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911986427253894754.post3926927293068604035..comments2022-03-26T11:39:43.006-04:00Comments on Parasociology: The 1896-1897 Airship Wave – A mini case studyEric Ouellethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630372990055395413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911986427253894754.post-80479821844447559002017-01-02T11:36:13.459-05:002017-01-02T11:36:13.459-05:00Hi Don,
This is an interesting idea that I did no...Hi Don,<br /><br />This is an interesting idea that I did not look into. Change of physical perspectives, when they become more common should create new collective phenomena, and it might have influenced the airship stories. <br /><br />With the late 19th c. airship wave, it is important to note that the original witnesses in San Francisco reported strange lights in the sky, not airships. The "airship" expression was an addition by the newspapers that reported on that shortly afterward. Many witnesses were farmers, as one would expect from that era, and they were seeing things from the ground. Some provided detailed accounts of "airships", while other offered no details (and maybe they just saw strange lights in the sky). Could it be possible that the word "airship" was used as "flying saucer" was used in the 1950s and 1960s to report all kinds of weird things in the sky that were not necessarily saucers? Then, when pressed by journalists to offer more details about the "airship", they made it up? We are now used to the word "UFO" which is a bit less clear on the shape and offers more room for variation, although it is still implying something solid, "an object". In a sense, it could be an attractor, in the sense that those words become an obligatory passage point for something to be reported? After all, the original chaos theory is based on "reported" standardized data about weather, like temperature, barometric pressure, etc. Eric Ouellethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02630372990055395413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911986427253894754.post-10957019456330410542016-12-25T00:13:46.890-05:002016-12-25T00:13:46.890-05:00Eric: after some thinking about it, I looked up th...Eric: after some thinking about it, I looked up the history on skyscrapers, tall multi-story buildings of at least ten floors with an internal steel skeleton. The first one I believe was located in Chicago. The listing for air-ship sightings in the U.S. start before this airship 'wave' that you're writing about in this article. What's interesting is that skyscraper construction only predates these earliest UFO sightings by about a decade. I began to wonder if a mirage could be formed with only a horizontal band of air reflecting an image so that only a thin slit would be visible to the observer on the ground. The effect would be of a long tube of glass and stone veneer floating in the air which would be at least the length of a city block. The report would be even more familiar if office workers were to use lanterns and lamps for illumination. There were several reports of people looking out of the windows of such airships. Let's see if I remember what that's called in chaos theory...would an objective phenomena producing a subjective effect in the observer still be called an attractor?tanshihushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811201441410589234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911986427253894754.post-63440368041490813722008-10-21T21:32:00.000-04:002008-10-21T21:32:00.000-04:00Thanks for the info. I will have a look.Thanks for the info. I will have a look.Eric Ouellethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01985467572506352039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911986427253894754.post-68676323704930668262008-10-21T20:34:00.000-04:002008-10-21T20:34:00.000-04:00Hi there again. It's interesting that you spoke a...Hi there again. It's interesting that you spoke about the airships.<BR/><BR/>I happen to have a Dallas CBS news video on my blog, which I think you would like if you haven't seen it yet. <BR/><BR/>The first video that appears is the actual story (which takes place directly after a short Stephenville comment). <BR/><BR/>There is an additional video there (second picture from the left), which is also worth your time. It's an 11 minute, off-the-cuff interview with author Wallace Chariton about the Texas Airship.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://aliencasebook.blogspot.com/2008/07/great-texas-airship-mystery-texas-1897.html" REL="nofollow">THE GREAT TEXAS AIRSHIP MYSTERY - UFO IN TEXAS 1897</A>Atrueoriginallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17754487232993372983noreply@blogger.com