http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/03/23/peterborough-cambridgeshire/ The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:25:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/03/23/peterborough-cambridgeshire/#comment-5787 Airminded · York 1 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:34:54 +0000 http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/peterborough-cambridgeshire/#comment-5787 [...] it was nice to see Peterborough Cathedral again, over which PC Kettle saw a phantom airship pass on one fateful night in March 1909 …) After that, it was pretty much power stations all the way to York, my first [...] [...] it was nice to see Peterborough Cathedral again, over which PC Kettle saw a phantom airship pass on one fateful night in March 1909 …) After that, it was pretty much power stations all the way to York, my first [...]

]]> http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/03/23/peterborough-cambridgeshire/#comment-5079 Airminded · The Scareship Age Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:38:39 +0000 http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/peterborough-cambridgeshire/#comment-5079 [...] On the night of 23 March 1909, a police constable named Kettle saw a most unusual thing: ‘a strange, cigar-shaped craft passing over the city’1 of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. His friends were sceptical, but his story was corroborated, to an extent, by Mr Banyard and Mrs Day, both of nearby March, who separately saw something similar two nights later. In fact, these incidents were only the prelude to a series of several dozen such sightings throughout April and especially May, mostly from East Anglia and South Wales. As the London Standard noted in May, there seemed to be common features to the various eyewitness accounts: With few exceptions they all speak of a torpedo-shaped object, possessing two powerful searchlights, which comes out early at night.2 [...] [...] On the night of 23 March 1909, a police constable named Kettle saw a most unusual thing: ‘a strange, cigar-shaped craft passing over the city’1 of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. His friends were sceptical, but his story was corroborated, to an extent, by Mr Banyard and Mrs Day, both of nearby March, who separately saw something similar two nights later. In fact, these incidents were only the prelude to a series of several dozen such sightings throughout April and especially May, mostly from East Anglia and South Wales. As the London Standard noted in May, there seemed to be common features to the various eyewitness accounts: With few exceptions they all speak of a torpedo-shaped object, possessing two powerful searchlights, which comes out early at night.2 [...]

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