In a variation of the usual airship, on July 29, 1880 two witnesses in Louisville, Kentucky saw a flying object described as "a man surrounded by machinery which he seemed to be working with his hands" with wings protruding from his back.
ふつうの飛行船のかわりだねとして、1880年7月29日に、ケンタッキー州ルイビルの目撃者2人は、ある飛行物体を見たが、それは、背中に複数の翼がある「両手で操作しているらしい機械類に取り囲まれた1人の男」("a man surrounded by machinery which he seemed to be working with his hands")と説明された。