Early Australian UFO reports…1868 encounter with an alien?

Early Australian UFO reports…1868 encounter with an alien? | weirdaustralia: "While the modern era of the flying saucer, or UFO, is generally regarded as having begun in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold’s famous sighting, followed quickly by the legend of crashed flying discs in the New Mexico desert, people have been observing unexplainable phenomena in the skies for far, far longer. In the late 1800s for example, a wave of strange sightings of airships swept across the US. These unknown craft were usually reported as being steam-driven ships, piloted by overall-clad men, flying low across the countryside."