scareships » Torfaen http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en Pontypool, Torfaen http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/pontypool-torfaen/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/pontypool-torfaen/#comments Tue, 18 May 1909 14:27:05 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=60 A cigar-shaped airship with a light at each end and which ‘quivered’ in such as way as to suggest a ‘mechanical contrivance’, was seen by architect and surveyor Garth Fisher and his wife over their house between 9.30pm and 10pm. It was also seen by nearly all the workers at the town forge and two postal workers, heading northwards over a mountain, having changed direction by nearly ninety degrees. It was apparently carrying a canvas.

Globe, 20 May 1909, p. 7; Manchester Guardian, 21 May 1909, p. 7; Norfolk News, 22 May 1909, p. 13.

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