scareships » Ipswich 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 Ipswich, Suffolk http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/24/ipswich-suffolk-3/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/24/ipswich-suffolk-3/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 1913 08:39:22 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/24/ipswich-suffolk-3/ An airship with a bright searchlight was seen at 9.30pm moving in ‘a methodical manner’ to the west by several people, including Edgar Moore; it flew off to the south-west at a high speed. It was too high for its shape to be seen (this is contradicted by one report, which also says that the engine was heard).

The Times, 26 February 1913, p. 8; Manchester Guardian, 26 February 1913, p. 6, 27 February 1913, p. 7, 1 March 1913, p. 9; Norfolk News, 1 March 1913, p. 12; Standard, 26 February 1913, p. 7.

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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): 45.

]]> http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/11/ipswich-suffolk-2/feed/ 0 Ipswich, Suffolk http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/04/24/ipswich-suffolk/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/04/24/ipswich-suffolk/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 1909 14:00:44 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/2005/06/11/ipswich-suffolk/ A sighting was made by police constable Hudson and J. A. Smith.

Standard, 17 May 1909, p. 9; Manchester Guardian, 20 May 1909, p. 7

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