On today’s date 157 years ago, Thursday, October 19, 1865, the following curiously-interesting article regarding a “Close Encounter of the Second Kind” appeared in the “Missouri Democrat” newspaper:
On today’s date 157 years ago, Thursday, October 19, 1865, the following curiously-interesting article regarding a “Close Encounter of the Second Kind” appeared in the “Missouri Democrat” newspaper: ☞A Strange Story -- Remarkable Discovery Missouri Democrat -- October 19, 1865 Mr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping at the Everett House for several days, makes a most remarkable statement to us, & one which, if authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the scientific world. Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September, he was engaged in trapping in the mountains about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri, & in the neighborhood of what is known as Cadotte Pass. Just after sunset one evening, he beheld a bright luminous body in the heavens, which moved with great rapidity in an easterly direction. It was plainly visible for at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated ...