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It was a blimp. The German's just before WW2 had one called the Hindenburg, a passenger ship, that blew up as it was coming into New Jersey from Germany. You can see film of it. One man died, but it looks like the entire blimp is one big ball of fire.

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There were more than one. The one that burned at Lindhurst, New Jersey in 1937 ending commercial dirigible flights was the Hindenburg.

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