Case file · Close encounter
Nude pilots near Springfield, Missouri
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch of 10 April 1897 carried W. H. Hopkins' story of a grounded airship near Springfield, about twenty feet long, crewed by a nude woman and a bearded man who pointed skyward and said something like 'Mars'.
1897 CE · 37.21, -93.29 · status: claim
The sceptical view
One of many tall tales the wave inspired; nothing supports it beyond the newspaper story.