Mysterious airship over Texas in 1897

1897 As reported in the Houston Daily Post of April 28, at Merkal, Texas, people returning from church followed a heavy object dragging along the ground. When they caught up with it, they found it to be an anchor hanging from an airship. A small man in a blue sailor suit came into view; he cut the ropes and left the anchor, which the townsfolk exhibited in the local blacksmith shop.