The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-01
SEEN OVER Los ANGELES.
The City Excited Over Bright
Lights Apparently Under
Some Ones Control,

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Nov Solos Angeles
is excited and people are gazing upward from
every corner at what all who have seen them
declare are the lights of an airship. The
altitude of these strange lights was very great
and the movement was from northwest TO
southeast. Passengers on board many of the
stree tear lines witnessed the zigzag glimmer
as it aoated slowly and placidly through the
upper air.
Most OF the force of the two morning dailies
saw the lights. which reappeared after two
hours time, going in the opposite direction
Some of the witnesses describe the appearance
OF these lights, twoof which were fixed, while
third light had the characteristics of a
searchlight and was apparently under the
operation of a skilled manipulation.
These lights were seen by so many reputable
citizens that the town is talking nothing else
tonight except the strange lights and the
probable influence of the invention, if 1t
proves such, upon methods of warfare and the
transmission OF intelligence from one part of
the world to another. The probability OF the
ship is conceded on all hands. and much
speculation is rife as TO its most. important
uses in peace and war.
The latest and most conclusive evi dence
extant reached this city 10 the effect that
Foreman Woods, on Lucky Baldwin s
ranch at Santa Anita, had seen the WIS.,
itor this afternoons by the full light
of day. III. a. Unruh, manager of
the ranch, places the utmost reli-
ance in the word of his foreman
and in consequence said to CALL CORE
spondent that this statement satisfied
him. There is some ground for the re-
port that genuine airship was being
operated among the foothills, not only in
the night but in the daytime.
This information was telephoned to the
Chamber of Commerce in this city to-day.
This information staggers the most credu-
lous. Serious people, judges and promi-
nent business men have now been led to
conclude that t ere is more in aerial
philosophy than they had ever dreamed of.
Foreman Woods description tallies with
the published accounts and pictures in
The CALL daring the past week, namely:
as to It's birdlike wings and other charac-
teristics. Mr.. Woods claims to have had a
good, plain view of the winged visitor,
and describes in detail its every part.
The hull or body, he says, is of oval
shape, while the wings are long and fash
toned remarkably like those of an Ameri-
can eagle. Its rapid movement through
the air Is WAaI I'M presSeu MI. w OoQS the
most. The machine, he said, was travel
ing against the wind, and at rate of
speed equal to the fastest train.
The hills about the city are lined with
gazers watching for late temperance of
the ship. To this mass of evidence a
hackman, whoseoccupation keeps him up
all night adds that he has seen the ship
as late as ga. N. This gentleman, whose
name is Carroll, describes the appearance
of searchlight feature with clear1ess.
He says that he is absolutely certain
that what he saw was an aerial machine
under the guidance of an intelligent be-
ing, and that the searchlight was capable
of revealing objects on the earth and the
general topography of the country to the
operators.