scareships » Southend-on-Sea http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:49:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Southend-on-Sea, Essex http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/southend-on-sea-essex-2/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/southend-on-sea-essex-2/#comments Tue, 18 May 1909 14:56:47 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=61 An airship was seen manoeuvring high up at dusk; it disappeared with nightfall.

Globe, 20 May 1909, p. 7; Norfolk News, 22 May 1909, p. 13.

]]> http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/southend-on-sea-essex-2/feed/ 0 Southend-on-Sea, Essex http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/09/southend-on-sea-essex/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/09/southend-on-sea-essex/#comments Sun, 09 May 1909 13:20:23 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/southend-on-sea-essex/ 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.

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