Southend-on-Sea, Essex

9 May 1909 in England, Essex, Night, Norfolk News, Single witness, Southend-on-Sea, Standard, Visual | No comments

At 11.20pm a woman, H. M. Boville, saw an ‘almost motionless’ ‘large, black object, oblong in shape’ about a quarter of a mile above the houses. It suddenly rose in the air after a minute or two, and then moved very fast towards London, briefly showing two brilliant lights.

Norfolk News, 15 May 1909, p. 15; Standard, 17 May 1909, p. 9.