On August 9, 1762, M. de Rostan of Basle, France, as recorded in the Annual Register, 9-120, observed a “vast, spindle-shaped body” while taking altitudes of the sun. It advanced slowly across the disk of the sun, and was “about three of the sun’s digits in breadth and nine in length.” The object did not disappear until September 7, when it … [Read more...] about A super-Zeppelin