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Cryptids and UFOs in Kansas

Mystery airships: the creatures, UFO files and strange history of Kansas, all in one place.

  • 1 creatures with famous cases
  • 80 Air Force UFO files
  • 8 old newspaper reports

Creatures reported in Kansas

Mystery airshipsaka Phantom airship, Mystery airshipLit-up 'airships' reported across America years before anyone could build one.

Famous cases

  1. 1897Cow-napping airship tale
    Mystery airships · Le Roy, Kansas

UFO files

From the old newspapers

Strange creatures, sea serpents and mystery airships reported in Kansas papers before 1927.

  1. 1869A gorilla at large in Kansas
    Arcadia
  2. 1893A seven-foot hairy 'half man' near Olathe
    Olathe
  3. 1897Telegraph operators watch for the Kansas airship
    Atchison
  4. 1897A winged ship ablaze with light over Ellinwood
    Ellinwood
  5. 1897Scores of Belleville people see it under control
    Belleville
  6. 1897Kansas City swears to the strange lights
    Kansas City
  7. 1897Topeka's airship was a kite
    Topeka
  8. 1897Alexander Hamilton's stolen heifer
    Le Roy

All 8 newspaper reports from Kansas

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