scareships » Sheerness http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Sheerness, Kent http://airminded.org/scareships/1912/10/14/sheerness-kent/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1912/10/14/sheerness-kent/#comments Sun, 13 Oct 1912 15:27:12 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=69 At 6.50pm an ‘unknown aircraft’ was heard by many people over this naval port town, including Lieutenant Fitzmaurice RN, Miss Walker, Mr H. R. Hounsell and Albert Wells. Some also saw a bright light, possibly red, as well a long dark shape. The light was seen westwards out to sea, but seemed to be travelling east ‘fairly fast’.

PRO AIR 1/2456; The Times, 19 November 1912, p. 12; The Times, 22 November 1912, p. 8; The Times, 28 November 1912, p. 10; Manchester Guardian, 19 November 1912, p. 6.

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