Down the rabbit hole
Other Flying · East Ely, Nevada · 1889
8 documents · 1 independent account
8 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 8 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 7 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 7 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 8 documents
- Earliest found The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.]) Newspaper · Jun 3, 1888
- Reprint The Democratic Press (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) Newspaper · Jul 26, 1888
- Reprint The Sully County Watchman (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) Newspaper · Aug 25, 1888
- Reprint Arizona Weekly Enterprise (Florence, Pinal County, Arizona Territory) Newspaper · Dec 15, 1888
- Reprint The National Leader (Washington, D.C.) Newspaper · Jan 12, 1889
- Reprint Audubon County Republican (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) Newspaper · Mar 7, 1889
- Reprint The White Pine News (Treasure City, Nev.) Newspaper · Jun 1, 1889
Image 1 of The White Pine news (Treasure City, Nev.), June 1, 1889 - Reprint The Mason County Journal (Shelton, W.T.) Newspaper · Jul 23, 1897
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Other Flying · Hartford, Connecticut · 1845
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