Little Rock ARKANSAS
GAZETTE
5 June 1909
Page 1
AIRSHIP OVER SALTON SEA
Propellers Can Be Seen by the Aid of:
Field GlamMG_
Los Angeles, Cal., June 4.-A specia!
dispatch from El Centro ways:
"All Imperial valley is excited
reports of a mysterious airship which is
making nightly fights over Saiton sea.
"At first the ship appeared to be
stationary at a point directly over Raf-
ton sex near the intake of the Alama
(and New vers. Then it began a rapid
fight, paming directly acrom Balton sen
and disappearing in the shadows of San
Jacinto mountains.
"At Brawler a party of 20 men is
said to have observed the machine
through feld glass. Its appearance
was that of a basket fastened between
two wide wings and when the turn was
made it is said the propellers could he
plainly aren. The observers were un
able to distinguish any person in the
basket,