Case file · Sighting
Blood-red light over Topeka
On 28 March 1897 several hundred people in Topeka, Kansas, reportedly watched a 'blood red light' in the sky; Governor John W. Leedy was named among the witnesses and some people hid in storm cellars.
1897 CE · 39.05, -95.68 · status: disputed
The sceptical view
A light alone, reported in a season of planet-watching and newspaper rivalry, is the weakest kind of airship evidence.