Mr. Banyard and Mrs. Day independently saw an airship at night, no further details.
Standard, 17 May 1909, p. 9; Manchester Guardian, 20 May 1909, p. 7.
The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913
Mr. Banyard and Mrs. Day independently saw an airship at night, no further details.
Standard, 17 May 1909, p. 9; Manchester Guardian, 20 May 1909, p. 7.
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Charlie Taylor
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