tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547800315811063376.post1184497761878327162..comments2023-06-02T00:27:50.222-07:00Comments on Fortean Ireland: Dirigible or Celestial Visitant?Fortean Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02727239853681380382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547800315811063376.post-89738913650835394952016-08-30T13:23:19.831-07:002016-08-30T13:23:19.831-07:001910 was another peak year in terms of sightings o...1910 was another peak year in terms of sightings of unidentified celestial objects. <br /><br />A few examples from my database: In May, German balloonists complained of seeing strange lights; and after the May, Donegal and the July, coast of Normandy incidents there was even a crash of a mystery airship in August, at Desau, France. Nothing was found although a woodsman saw 'an airship' enveloped in flames crashing to the earth in the woods.<br /><br />July also saw a Close Encounter of the Third Kind in Indiana where startled folks saw airships passing near two cities. One saw 'a balloon' with two occupants that flew 'so low that the two men in the balloon asked where they were...' - a typical UFO occupant ploy, asking for directions or what time it is, as John Keel astutely pointed out.<br /><br />For 1910 I have 104 listings but I know we could easily multiply these many imes over (for instance the 1909-1910 Tillinghast airship flap over in New England and environs).<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Theotheo paijmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17890509406570628152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547800315811063376.post-19378336701740968002016-08-29T23:14:58.198-07:002016-08-29T23:14:58.198-07:00Thanks Undine. I liked the Donegal incident as it ...Thanks Undine. I liked the Donegal incident as it doesn't seem to have been triggered by events elsewhere in Ireland or the UK (unlike Belfast and Dublin incidents in 1909, for example). Perhaps there are more of these isolated examples still to be found.Fortean Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727239853681380382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547800315811063376.post-62020936470826908912016-08-29T08:42:30.361-07:002016-08-29T08:42:30.361-07:00Very interesting! It reminds me of this report of ...Very interesting! It reminds me of this report of an "apparition" off the Normandy coast just a couple of months later. <br /><br />http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19100706/113/0004Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.com