Mystery airships

>In one account from Texas, three men reported an encounter with an airship and with "five peculiarly dressed men" who asserted that they were descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and had learned English from the 1553 North Pole expedition led by Hugh Willoughby.

read Jacques Vallee, the airships are just one iteration of a phenomena that has been happening for thousands of year and consistently presenting itself to us as some exotic but familiar shape that is just outside of our current technological familiarity while intentionally obscuring it's true identity and intentions. he describes it as some sort of meta-scale cultural control system by an intelligence of some sort and while the stories people have told of these interactions have changed in specifics the formula has been consistent across centuries of time and wide geographical distances

might be aliens, might be some sort of reflection of a collective human unconsciousness, might be spirits, we don't know and it has been using these masks as needed to keep us at arms reach from the beginning

>The November 19, 1896, edition of the Stockton, California, Daily Mail featured one of the earliest accounts of an alleged alien craft sighting.[23] Colonel H.G. Shaw claimed that while driving his buggy through the countryside of Lodi near Stockton,[24] he came across what appeared to be a landed spacecraft.[23] Shaw described it as having a metallic surface which was completely featureless apart from a rudder, and pointed ends.[23] He estimated a diameter of 25 feet and said the vessel was around 150 feet in total length.[23] Three slender, 7-foot-tall (2.1 m), apparent extraterrestrials were said to approach from the craft while "emitting a strange warbling noise."[23] The beings examined Shaw's buggy and then tried to physically force him to accompany them back to the airship.[25] The aliens were said to give up after realizing they lacked the physical strength to force Shaw aboard.[1] They boarded their ship, which lifted off the ground and sped out of sight.[1] Shaw believed that the beings were Martians sent to kidnap an earthling for unknowable but potentially nefarious purposes.[1] This has been seen by some as an early attempt at alien abduction; it is possibly the first published account of explicitly extraterrestrial beings attempting to abduct humans and force them into their spacecraft.[26]

The ships are manifested from the Æthyr. Higher beings use them basically to play jokes, deliver Karma, harass feds, create cults, give free rides to gypsies, hippies, and so on.

I’ll just leave this here:
https://origin-rh.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.asp

> But we have seen and heard of many people overcome with so much foolishness, made crazy by so much stupidity, that they believe and say that there is a certain region, which is called Magonia, from which ships come in the clouds. In these ships the crops that fell because of hail and were lost in storms are carried back into that region; evidently these aerial sailors make a payment to the storm-makers, and take the grain and other crops. Among those so blinded with profound stupidity that they believe these things could happen we have seen many people in a kind of meeting, exhibiting four captives, three men and one woman, as if they had fallen from these very ships. As I have said, they exhibited these four, who had been chained up for some days, with such a meeting finally assembling in our presence, as if these captives ought to be stoned.

This reads like forteana. Those were probably fairies or psychic manifestations of the collective unconscious. And so are “UAPs”.
The notion that those are secret government vessels is government propaganda meant to 1. hide the fact that they don’t know what those things messing with their airspace superiority are, and 2. try to make foreign powers think they have hidden advanced tech more advanced than they actually have.