Date uncertain: before 14 May 1909. Aeronautical expert Patrick Alexander ‘heard at night sounds apparently of an airship in motion’.
Standard, 14 May 1909, p. 9.
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Standard, 21 May 1909, p. 21. The date is from David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The airship wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999): 50. This also places West Green in Greater London.
Captain Egenes and the crew of the Norwegian steamer St. Olaf saw a low-flying airship fly overhead, which shone a searchlight onto the ship’s deck. It moved off and examined another steamer.
Globe, 19 May 1909, p. 4; Manchester Guardian, 20 May 1909, p. 7. The location was off Blyth, Northumberland, according to David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The airship wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999): 52.