The 1909 'Scareship' scares (UK / New Zealand).
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The international recurrence of the phantom-airship phenomenon in 1909, framed as German/Japanese spy airships amid invasion fears.
Reports are documented but almost entirely newspaper-sourced and weakly corroborated (a 1966 re-interview of four surviving NZ child-witnesses found only one recalled seeing anything). Content is folklore-adjacent (crash rumors, foreign-speaking occupants). Illustrates Jerome Clark's 'amnesia between waves'.