The Airship Again.

Morning Oregonian de Portland (Oregon), 3 août 1897 Clark, J. E.: "airships (or something), Washington, 1897", Magonia Exchange, 18 mars 2008

Strange to Say, It Passed Port Townsend Unobserved.

VICTORIA, Aug. 2. – The illuminated aerial visitor that has been mystifying the people of the Northwest for several months past made two recent appearances near Victoria.  Three ladies camping at Sidney, a few nights ago, saw it, and watched it for half an hour.  It appeared to be moving slowly to the north.  One lady described it as a red column of fire apparently 50 feet long.

Sunday morning [August 1] about 2 o’clock it was seen by Messrs. Tatum, Young and Wolfendeen, who camped near Goldstream.  It worked in a northwesterly direction.  The three men watched it until daylight, when it disappeared.  It was shaped like a balloon, but its light was more brilliant than it would be possible to light a balloon.  The light was the color of electric light, and the object was steadily throwing out rays.  It was not very high.  From descriptions, the object would appear to be a visitor from the skies.  It was not affected by the wind.