Posthuman Blues

Author seeks information from area on 1897 UFO sightings

"Using period documentation and analysis of the technological capabilities of the era, Busby proposes that experimental aircraft were being built and tested for the U.S. military, funded by wealthy businessmen. But as he investigates the beginnings of the military-industrial complex for future volumes, he continues to seek verification of those listed as eyewitnesses to the airship sightings of 1897 for future editions of Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery."

If this is true, then the military certainly hired some weird characters to fly these things. Or maybe they were simply told to act weird so that their existence could be open to ridicule.