Well, just one dream, really: human flight. They called themselves the Sonora Aero Club and, over time, they counted some 60 members, possibly many more. Their ranks included great characters ...

KAAD-LP FM radio host David Simerley told a roomful of people on Oct. 11 at the Tuolumne County Library on Greenley Road in Sonora. “I think it’s an important part of our personality and ident ...

He filled notebooks with gorgeous, multicolored airship designs and mysterious, coded records of the “Sonora Aero Club.” Between 1899 and 1922, Dellshau created 100 airship designs ...

Houston artist Pete Navarro found that the books were the records of a secret—and probably fictional—organization that Dellschau called the Sonora Aero Club. Dellschau identified himself as ...

Sonora community radio station programmer and board member David Allen Simerley has his own stories about encounters with unidentified flying objects. About 20 years ago, a mysterious aircraft ...

Twenty-plus years ago, Tom Kellar was a singer/songwriter playing any gig he could get in the Sacramento and Bay Area with his band The Texas Midgets. With an almost phobic aversion to playing live, ...