scareships » County Antrim 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 Belfast, County Antrim http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/16/belfast-county-antrim/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/16/belfast-county-antrim/#comments Sun, 16 May 1909 12:10:02 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=35 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.

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