19th Century Flying Mystery Machines. What really happened during this time? Dirigibles, or lighter-than-air aircraft, were first invented in the 1700s, making aerial flight a reality for over 100 years. Were these accounts really fabrications? Could “yellow journalism be to blame”?
Perhaps it is not a coincidence that incidents of UFO’s spiked at the same time as reports of fairies diminished. With the explosion of atomic culture and aliens in the wake of WWII, pop culture has ingrained upon modern people the concept of the alien.
The Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius wrote: “Nothing in the universe is unique and alone and therefore in other regions there must be other earths inhabited by different tribes of men and breeds of beasts.”
