Case file · Retrieval claim
Airship 'explosion' at Pavilion, Michigan
On 12 April 1897, after sightings over Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, an airborne explosion was reported at Pavilion, with supposed debris found at Pavilion and Comstock.
1897 CE · 42.18, -85.47 · status: claim
The sceptical view
No debris was ever identified; the 'wreckage' stories of 1897 were a newspaper genre.