At the height of America's Mystery Airship craze, a respected traveling salesman claimed that he encountered the occupants of a strange flying machine in the Missouri countryside. His fantastic story reads like a UFO encounter from the 1950s... except it happened in 1897. https://preview.redd.it/set03i76x4nh1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0b69600b746d9c587e8d812635fe362844049af By Kevin J. Guhl On a sunny Friday in April 1897, W. H. Hopkins wandered through the hills a few miles east...