Editing Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis (section)

===Historical reports and speculation===
A news article {{efn|The Evening Mail ([[Stockton, California|Stockton]]) <ref>{{cite news |author=Michael Fitzgerald |url=https://eu.recordnet.com/story/news/2015/03/27/fitzgerald-day-space-aliens-visited/34895899007/|website=|title=THREE STRANGE VISITORS "Who Possibly Came From the Planet Mars "Seen on a Country Road by Colonel H.G. Shaw and a Companion"|date=2015-03-27|publisher=Stockton Evening Mail: recordnet.com|access-date=3 May 2025|url-status=|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240627115338/https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/2015/03/27/fitzgerald-day-space-aliens-visited/34895899007/|archive-date=27 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92069055/|website=www.loc.gov|title=The Evening Mail (Stockton, Calif.) 1892-1917 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=3 May 2025 |archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref>}} published November 25, 1896 retells (Colonel H.G. Shaw)  of an experience of "strange beings" and "an immense airship" en route from [[Lodi, California|Lodi]]<ref name=HGW>{{cite web|author=H.G.. Shaw|url=https://archive.org/details/03_20240327_20240327_2253/01.jpg|website=archive.org|title=THREE STRANGE VISITORS "Who Possibly Came From the Planet Mars "Seen on a Country Road by Colonel H.G. Shaw and a Companion - They Boarded the Airship"|date=|publisher=|access-date=3 May 2025|quote=p.2 <small><small>THREE STRANGE BEINGS</small></small>: -went out to Lodi and Lockford-" p.5: "Mars"}}</ref> California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.viamichelin.com/routes/results/lockeford-95237-_-dean_pass-united_states-to-lodi-95240-_-dean_pass-united_states|website=www.viamichelin.com [[Michelin]]|title=Lockeford > Lodi|date=|publisher=|access-date=|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref> Shaw concluded the beings were infact from Mars.<ref name=HGW/> Amongst other reports of "[[Mystery airship|airships]]" from November 1896 (including December) - 1897 (only mid-March - April): containing people (sometimes with a dog, listening to music, landing to make repairs), the ''Dallas Morning News''  [[Aurora, Texas, UFO incident#The incident as reported|reported of April 17, 1897 in Aurora, Texas]]: an airship "much nearer the earth than ever before" destroyed in a crash, the consequently dead occupant subsequently described by a United States signal service office as “a native of the planet Mars”.<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Michael Jacobs|author-link1=David Michael Jacobs|chapter=The Mystery Airship|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/david-jacobs-the-ufo-controversy-in-america/page/13/mode/2up|location= |title=The UFO Controversy In America|url=https://archive.org/details/david-jacobs-the-ufo-controversy-in-america/mode/2up|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|publication-date=1975 |pages=3 (16) - 13 (26)|access-date=3 May 2025|isbn=0-253-19006-1}}</ref> Later, there was a more international airship wave from 1909-1912. An example of an extraterrestrial explanation at the time was a 1909 letter to a New Zealand newspaper suggesting "atomic powered spaceships from Mars."<ref>Jerome Clark, ''The UFO Book'', 1998, 199-200</ref>