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The Sheerness Phantom Zeppelin (The Sheerness Incident)
October 14, 1912 · Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 20 sources
38Partially documented
The Tillinghast Airship: New England's Phantom Searchlight
December 1909 · Worcester, Massachusetts, and towns across New England
United States
UAP · Other · 19 sources
26Thinly documented
The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909
July 1909 · Kelso, West Otago, and across New Zealand
New Zealand
UAP · Cigar · 20 sources
26Thinly documented
The British Phantom Airship ("Scareship") Wave of 1909
March 23, 1909 · England, Wales and Ireland (Peterborough, East Anglia, Birmingham, Cardiff and Caerphilly, Belfast, Kingstown)
United Kingdom
UAP · Cigar · 36 sources
48Partially documented
Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897
November 17, 1896 · Sacramento, California, then Northern California, the Midwest and Texas
United States
UAP · Cigar · 45 sources
41Partially documented
John Martin's "Large Saucer" over North Texas, 1878
January 22, 1878 · Near Denison, Grayson County, Texas (possibly near Dallas)
United States
UAP · Other · 12 sources
11Thinly documented

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  • Flying Saucers or Unconventional Aircraft (PUBD Is Unknown) FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1955-09-04· 3 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 2 …An interview with the delegation of these airships failed to confirm in several respects the information given in the delegation…
  • The UFO files extract Document
    The National Archives· 22 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 19 …UFO sighting (1952) 48–50, >9 London: ‘phantom airship’ sightings over (1916) 16–17 Lott, Alan 84–5, A> Lovell…
  • UFO research guide Document
    The National Archives· 13 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 2 …In 1909 and 1913 phantom airships - dark cigar-shaped flying objects carrying searchlights - were sighted at night moving over many…
  • UFO research guide, August 2011 Document
    The National Archives· 2011-08· 15 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 2 …In 1909 and 1913 phantom airships - dark cigar-shaped flying objects carrying searchlights - were sighted at night moving over many…
  • UFO files briefing guide Document
    The National Archives· 15 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 2 …In 1909 and 1913 phantom airships - dark cigar-shaped flying objects carrying searchlights - were sighted at night moving over many…
  • Unidentified Flying Objects research guide Document
    The National Archives· 15 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 2 …In 1909 and 1913 phantom airships - dark cigar-shaped flying objects carrying searchlights - were sighted at night moving over many…

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The Phantom Airship Mystery of 1897: what did the Americans see?
From Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897
Video1679
Medieval UFOs? The Story of the 'Flying Ship' over Ireland
From Poinstown phantom ship and chariot
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The Airship Destroyer (1909)
From The British Phantom Airship ("Scareship") Wave of 1909
Video1909
The Great Scareship Panic of 1909
From The British Phantom Airship ("Scareship") Wave of 1909
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South Island N Z Mystery Airship Blitz of 1909
From The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909