http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/03/25/march-cambridgeshire/ The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:51:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/03/25/march-cambridgeshire/comment-page-1/#comment-5438 Airminded · The Scareship Age Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:53:42 +0000 http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/march-cambridgeshire/#comment-5438 [...] 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 [...]

]]> http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/03/25/march-cambridgeshire/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Charlie Taylor Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:18:43 +0000 http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/march-cambridgeshire/#comment-2 This is wonderful stuff. It reminds me very much of the widely publicized flying saucer sightings in the early fifties in the U.S. As a young boy at the time, I remember being impressed by the "scientific" evidence for flying saucers, which was set forth in all sorts of articles in magazines like "Police Gazette", ( which also maintained that Hitler had escaped to Argentina in a submarine), and in the tabloid press. While there are still hard-core believers around today, it seems pretty obvious in retrospect that the flying saucer scare was related to the floating paranoia of the early years of the Cold War.If Godless Bolsheviks could bomb us, why not Aliens! War and rumors of war seems to be the link between your Scareships and our Flying Saucers. Charlie This is wonderful stuff. It reminds me very much of the widely publicized flying saucer sightings in the early fifties in the U.S. As a young boy at the time, I remember being impressed by the “scientific” evidence for flying saucers, which was set forth in all sorts of articles in magazines like “Police Gazette”, ( which also maintained that Hitler had escaped to Argentina in a submarine), and in the tabloid press.
While there are still hard-core believers around today, it seems pretty obvious in retrospect that the flying saucer scare was related to the floating paranoia of the early years of the Cold War.If Godless Bolsheviks could bomb us, why not Aliens!
War and rumors of war seems to be the link between your Scareships and our Flying Saucers.
Charlie

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