25 - The Tillinghast Airship

New England, 1909: a Massachusetts inventor of steam valves claims to have built an airplane, and sightings seem to back up his claims.  Or do they?

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“Aeronaut had fight for life,” Boston Globe, July 24, 1909.
“Airship story worries them,” Boston Globe, December 26, 1909.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrée%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition
Bartholomew, Robert E. and George S. Howard. UFOs & Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1998.
Bartholomew, Robert E. and Stephen Whalen. “The Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,” New England Quarterly 75:3 (September 2002).
“Calls Tillinghast the cook of the air,” El Paso (TX) Herald, March 1, 1910.
“Certain as the stars,” Boston Globe, December 25, 1909.
“Fell from airship,” Boston Globe, August 24, 1909.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Curtiss
“Is aviator Tillinghast hoaxing the nation? New England thinks his flying machine wonder is straight,” Evansville (IN) Press, December 30, 1909.
“Like the buzzard,” Boston Globe, December 26, 1909.
“Marlboro has it, too,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909.
“Many see airship in the evening star,” Fitchburg Sentinel, December 24, 1909.
“Mr. Glidden is convinced,” Boston Globe, March 12, 1911.
“New style aeroplane,” Boston Globe, December 5, 1909.
“Tillinghast airship found,” Boston Globe, July 12, 1910.
“Tillinghast flyer no joke,” Boston Globe, March 16, 1911.
“Weird airship man is found,” Boston Globe, December 30, 1909.
“Worcester palpitating,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909.

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