Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-03
RECORD OF AIRSHIPs
 WHICH WERE NOT REAL
Some Seen By Citizens of Fl PaSo and Some from
 Phoenix

0cp liNothA tRtAtthAs bA ~ roplanes has set some of the old timers reminiscing, says the Fl Paso Herald. The net result Of this retro spection is the recollection of the re- port of the first airshiD that was sup posed to have floated through the ambient air over Fl Paso. This was back in 1897, April IS. according to the files of the Fl Haso Herald of the following day. The paper of that date contained a chalk plate repro duction of a vision an unnamed Fl Pasoan had during the night previous when he saw, or thought he saw, a monster airship go cruising through the air passing Fl Paso and heading for Chihuahua. Mex.
 The supposed apparition was seen about 2 o'clock in the morning, ac- cording to the story the unnamed in- diyidual told the next morning after taking a solemn oath that he was neither drunk nor drinking on the night in question. It was wondrous white craft with forward and aft searchlights. pair of propellers, and a cigar shaped body, with giant wings protruding from each side like the dragon of a Wagnerian opera.
 Here is the Arabian Nights dream the Fl Pasoan of if years ago, had:
 All of a sudden he (the Danny Dreamer) saw what he thought at first was a very bright star in the east" according to the Herald Of that date. It appeared to be moving rapidly and becoming brighter and brighter. He then thought it was a meteor, but it was moving very steady. directly towards town. He then thought of the airship about which he had been reading, and watched the object closely It came close to where he was lying and did not seem to be more than 500 feet in the air. 1t made no noise. but he could hear voices, as if two or more people were talking. AS the airship passed over him it's course was changed and it rose to a higher al titude: its speed was considerably slackened and for over an hour 1t scared over the city, going in all di. rections. After a while it started off south in the direction of Chihua- hua and it was lost sight of. The man says the Ship seemed to be cigar shaped and was from 40 10. 60 feet long.
 Tn front and back there were tre- mendous strong searehiights. and at the portholes in the sides rays of bright lights streamed ont On each side of the ship there were large wing shaped contrivances gIsi @,i each end two large propellers, which turned with furious velocity. On top there seemed to be several of these propelIers that moved very fast
 This tbrings to mind an asrship seen b. George Purdy Bullard the democratic candidate for attorney general, at last spring One night Mir. Bullard caled up a newspaper of flee and urected attention 10 heay- enIy wanderer which he was sure was an airship with a search light. recon noitering northwest of Phoenix. MT. Bullard had been watching it for half an hour and had called out all the neighbors It was plain that t was not a star for there was a haze over the heavens in that section which obscuTed the stars. Besides, it ap- peared to Mir. Buliard that the air ship was moving about as if the occu' pants were hunting a landing place. Meanwhile it was moving slowly TO- ward the western horizon so that by the time he had appraised the news paper office and the rest Of the town it was pretty low down. But there was no doubt in the popular mind that it was an airship. The next night Mir. Builard saw it again. but th5t time Inc didnIt tell xhybody. He kept it all to himself for there was no haze in the sky then and he could see that what he had taken 1 for a searchlight was a particularly bright star which had shone through the haze the night before. This incident is not recalled to prove the unfitness of Mr. Bullard for the office ! he seeks for if that were so more ! than half the citizens Of Phoenix would Joe unfit For Vfice for the greater part of the population mis took that star for an airship and a reporter for the morning paper stalk