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November 1896 – April 1897 · tested at town frame
The great airship wave of 1896–97 — thousands of reports of a powered, lighted airship across the Midwest, Indiana included — was tested against this ground specifically. No airship report naming North Liberty or Liberty Township was found in the sources read: not in the county histories (Howard, writing in 1907, a decade after the wave, records none for the township), and not in any wave catalogue extract naming this town. The wave passed over Indiana; whether it passed over this township is exactly what the record does not say. Settler named: the South Bend Tribune's and the Indianapolis papers' airship coverage of April 1897, town by town — a searchable newspaper run, not yet run for this place. The result prints as a searched negative at search strength, not as proof nothing was seen.