C. W. Allen and Mr. Brown saw a fast-moving ‘oblong’ airship with lights before and aft at about 11pm.
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Date uncertain. The brother-in-law (possibly named Strange) of ‘prominent Peterborough tradesman’ Herbert Neaverson was so impressed by the airship he saw that he travelled to London to inform the War Office. He saw a light coming from towards the sea in the early hours of the morning. He could not see the shape of the airship but he could hear the engine and a ‘swishing’ noise.
Norfolk News, 15 May 1909, p. 15; Standard, 17 May 1909, p. 9.
