Over the years, I've written a number of posts about various phantom airship scares (which I take here to mean things seen in the sky which weren't actually there). There are many more I might do in future, pending access to good sources (and maybe I'll even get around to writing something for publication!) but it seems worth collecting the links together at this point.

• 1892, Russia: German balloons
• 1896-7, Canada: a balloon
• 1899, South Africa: British airships, Boer signals
• 1909, Britain: German airships
• 1909, New Zealand: airships
• 1909, Australia: airships
• 1910, Australia: an airship
• 1912, Britain: a German airship
• 1916, Britain: a German airship
• 1917, Canada: a German airship
• 1940, Britain: German balloons, German paratroops, German paratroops
• 1942, United States: Japanese aeroplanes
• 1946, Sweden: Soviet rockets

Count Zeppelin clearly has a lot to answer for.

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