At 1.30am a man cycling home saw an airship with two brilliant lights flying at speed to the southwest. (Kingstown is now Dún Laoghaire.)
Globe, 20 May 1909, p. 7.
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A score of people all over the city observed ‘a long cigar-shaped object’ with a ‘brilliant headlight’ at 10pm for about 15 minutes. That it was occupied was ‘conclusively proven’ by a flashing red light. The object was moving rapidly at a height of about two or three thousand feet then slowed and disappeared to the northeast.
Manchester Guardian, 18 May 1909, p. 7, 20 May 1909, p. 7; Standard, 18 May 1909, p. 8.