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Dec 24 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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The UK had an airship/scareship flap in 1909 as well. Here are some articles written by Carl Grove in FSR 50+years ago, along with some other refs.
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The Airship Wave of 1909 - A Preliminary Survey
FSR v16n6 (November-December 1970)
The Airship Wave of 1909 -- Pt.2
Carl Grove
Carl Grove also wrote 'About the Scareships' in 2011, you can find at @ Scribd
scribd.com/document/55767…
@shuclarke wrote a paper for Fortean Studies 6 (I only own a copy of 3). You can read a version of that here:
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Dr. David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999): 39–63.
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ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos_…
A put a PDF of David's paper I also had on my Google Drive, here drive.google.com/file/d/173oUUN…
Nigel Watson put out a book, you can find on Amazon here amazon.com/Scareship-Myst…
I have pointed to @Airminded Brett Holman's work on scareships before, you can find "The Scareship Age" on his great blog Airminded, here: airminded.org/2006/12/22/the…
A listing of some his his post for 1909, airminded.org/archives/scare…
Someone compiled a bunch of his blog post into a PDF @ Academia:
"The Scareship Age, 1892-1946: Collected Blog Posts from Airminded"
academia.edu/25556483/The_S…
Nick Redfern wrote an article for MU:
UFOs Over Wales: A 1909 Wave
mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/05/ufos-o…
A review of the book Nigel Watson edited @ Magonia Review
mrobsr.blogspot.com/2010/03/the-sc…

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