They Called Them Airships: Victorian UFOs Soared High Over Cincinnati In 1897

Throughout the summer and autumn of 1897, H.G. Wells published his ground-breaking science-fiction novel, “War of the Worlds,” in serial form, over several issues of Cosmopolitan magazine. Simultaneously, the United States reported hundreds of UFO sightings, with dozens of witnesses in Cincinnati alone. Coincidence? They didn’t call the mysterious aerial objects UFOs in those days, of course. They…