Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog. He keeps turning up wherever the archive's older scares are argued over. He followed the 1909 British phantom airship wave and named C. D. Clayton as probably its creative genius. He placed the 1914 South African phantom monoplane among the scareship waves, which he read as expressions of national anxiety. For the Battle of Los Angeles he studied a less retouched print of the famous photograph. His argument was that the bright spot was a cloud lit by the converging beams. His interest was rarely in what people really saw. It was in what they believed they saw.
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Historian who used the case to argue for cultural framing of sightings
Historian who post-blogged the 1909 scare day by day on Airminded
Writer of the Airminded blog who places the wave among the scareship waves
Historian, Airminded blog
Author of the Airminded blog analysis of the 1999 letters