Yeah I was gonna say, this story sounded familiar. Props to Brian Dunning on this one for apparently being one of the few to actually look at the context of the publishing of this story. It appeared with a bunch of other stories in that newspaper that were pretty clearly jokes.

>In one, an "aerial monster" landed in a field, piloted by men from New York. In another, the crew consisted of lost Jews from the ten tribes of Israel who told a judge they'd come from the North Pole.