An unusual object was sighted, that had unconventional appearance and performance. One luminous blimp-like object was observed by a male witness at a mountain for two minutes (Eager).

Fort's description:

A FORMATION having the shape of a dirigible." It was reported from Huntington, West Virginia (Scientific American, 115-241). Luminous object that was seen July 19, 1916, at about eleven p.m. Observed through "rather powerful field glasses," it looked to be about two degrees long and half a degree wide. It gradually dimmed, disappeared, reappeared, and then faded out of sight. Another person -- as we say: it would be too inconvenient to hold to our intermediatist recognitions -- another person who observed this phenomenon suggested to the writer of the account that the object was a dirigible, but the writer says that faint stars could be seen behind it. This would seem really to oppose our notion of a dirigible visitor to this earth -- except for the inconclusiveness of all things in a mode of seeming that is not final -- or we suggest that behind some parts of the object, thing, construction, faint stars were seen. We find a slight discussion here. Prof. H. M. Russell thinks that the phenomenon was a detached cloud of aurora borealis. Upon page 369 of this volume of the Scientific American, another correlator suggests that it was a light from a blast furnace -- disregarding that, if there be blast furnaces in or near Huntington, their reflections would be commonplaces there.

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