That spring, no true Englishman could enjoy an evening stroll without spotting a zeppelin. "My eye was at once attracted by a powerful light, which I should judge to have been some 1,200 feet above the ground," said Police Constable Kettle of his March 23, 1909 sighting, reported in London's Daily Mail. "I also saw a dark body, oblong and narrow in shape, outlined against the stars." His observation was seconded by a Miss Gill, who told the Evening News of "a brilliant flashing light in the sky."
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