The Moth Man. United States

Is it possible that this is an amazing article from the New York Times from 12 September 1880 reported an early observation of the legendary American monster - the Man-moth? In any case, the description is very similar.

"One day last week a marvelous apparition was seen on the Isle of Coney island (Brooklyn, NY). At a height of at least a thousand feet (300 meters) in the air there was a strange object and it was moving to the coast of new Jersey.

In appearance it was a man with wings like a bat and kicks like a frog (probably webbed). The man's face were visible and he had a rather harsh or even cruel face. Movements which he made with their feet were like the movement of a floating frogs, and coupled with the movements of the forelimbs (wings) he was flying. Of course no frog would behave this way, but if she would have a human head and bat wings and it also would have made the motion like floats and flies, it would be the exact description of the monster from Coney island.

We'll also add that when I heard the whistle of the locomotive, that monster waved their wings, and they were disturbing thick black. This object was noticed by many people, including famous and they were all agreed. it's like flying man, which was heading to new Jersey. About a month ago, exactly the same description of the object seen above St Louis, and these people were sober and considered to be trustworthy.

Later, after Saint Louis, a similar creature was seen by residents of Kentucky, when he flew over the state. And no one has seen it for lower than a thousand pounds height. This is without a doubt the most amazing and unusual object of all that people saw and urgently need to find out what his habits, what character and where he's going. No one doubts that the air vision - the man who is equipped with wings. Apparently someone has solved the problem of celestial navigation, and invented the wings that can support a person in the air and can be controlled. Who is this an adventurous pilot and what is its purpose? However, this phenomenon is directly contrary to the customs and habits of the aeronauts.

If someone invented those wings, he would have started to advertise this air travel before it can be improved. He would have announced he could fly to Europe for 24 hours and that he is ready to show it for 50 cents to everyone who wants to see this car. Later, he would have borrowed money to pay for a flight in the interest of science, and then would publish a book about the science of Aeronautics. And then before the actual flight he would suddenly disappear or "accidentally" destroyed his wings and after the outbreak of the indignation of the crowd, it would be soon forgotten. It usually happens to a lot of inventors of balloons or other devices, supposedly able to fly through the sky. It's a mysterious man has followed this path and probably is not a professional aeronaut.

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One of the experimental aircraft of the early twentieth century (USA)

No doubt this man or the scientist or any other person, at present unknown, created wings like a bat and legs like a frog that can carry man through the air like a sail. Why he did not patent his device, and nothing reported in the press? The reason can be only one, he couldn't do, in other words this man was up to something criminal. This probably explains the fierce expression on his face. This may not be a simple theft or robbery, as in his suit there is nothing, which he could put the loot".

Ends this highly entertaining note the assumption that this strange flier could be a local Reverend Mr. Talmage, who was also interested in criminal offenses. The author of the note suggests (with obvious irony and derision) that Mr. Talmage could from such a height to search out a lot of examples of offences and add them to your collection.

Perhaps this journalist was a personal score to settle with the preacher, but it is difficult to imagine that he wrote the whole article just for the sake of the last paragraph. Moreover, the article also ridiculed and "inventors-the aeronauts". It is possible that in 1880 the US population actually saw a strange flying humanoid in the sky. If it was the same Man-Moth or other flying alien, unknown, no photo or drawing of this creature.

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