The great speed referred to for some in this article was estimated at 250mph. For someone in 1897 that might have just been shorthand for incomprehensibly fast.

The great speed referred to for some in this article was estimated at 250mph. For someone in 1897 that might have just been shorthand for incomprehensibly fast. These accounts feel a lot more similar to the navy pilot accounts of the pill/cigar shaped craft they’ve been tracking, which are also capable of a rapid change in speed along a new vector.