Hednesford Scareship
According to David Taylor’s article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, one night in 1913, at 7.30pm, several people saw an airship carrying a light.
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Longford Scareship
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’ in February 1913, multiple witnesses reported a large, dark cigar shape in the sky.
Kinver Scareship, Staffordshire
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in 1916, reports circulated that a German ‘Zeppelin’ had landed in the area whilst on a bombing raid.
Exhall Scareship, Warwickshire
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in 1913, an airship or aeroplane, at a considerable height, was seen for about five minutes on a clear moonlit night at about 9.45p
Coventry Scareship, Warwickshire
According to David Taylor’s article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in May 1909, Coventry, England, tramway men reported an airship.
Small Heath Scareship, Birmingham
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in May 1909, multiple witnesses saw a cigar shaped airship, without lights, passing overhead on several consecutive nights.
Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918
At the turn of the 20th century, visionaries began to dream that the new science of aeronautics would bring universal peace on the Earth by love or fear. Love because as people travelled more they would get to know each other as human beings and no longer as sinister foreigners; fear, because the destructive power of aerial bombardment would render war unthinkable.
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