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  1937 newspaper item on the Birmingham flying machine Scan

  Bill Chalker, theozfiles ·from Frederick William Birmingham's "Machine to go through the air", Parramatta 1868 (1868)

  Yesterday And To-day "OUGHT TO PLAY HOOPS." Time changes all things. Bowls was once an old man's game, now it is played by all ages. In the match between Parramatta and North Sydney last Saturday, one member of the Shore team was scarcely more than 20 years of age. He seemed out of place in the comp…

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  Judge magazine cartoon of May 15, 1897 by Grant E. Hamilton satirising the airship wave. Contemporary context only, not related to Alexander Hamilton Scan

  Grant E. Hamilton, Judge; scan by Geographicus ·from Alexander Hamilton's Airship Calf-Napping, Le Roy, Kansas (1897) (1897)

  Judge BRIGHT FUN THE TRUTH OUT AT LAST! The flying-machine seen in different parts of the country of late, and creating such a sensation, was only Judge opening the bike season with his aerial cycle.…

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  Manchester Guardian, 20 May 1909, p. 7: "AIRSHIP MYSTERY. FLIGHT BY NIGHT OVER CARDIFF" Scan

  Manchester Guardian, via Airminded ·from The British Phantom Airship ("Scareship") Wave of 1909 (1909)

  AIRSHIP MYSTERY. FLIGHT BY NIGHT OVER CARDIFF. A WELL-SUBSTANTIATED STORY. THE AERONAUTS SEEN ON A MOUNTAIN. STRANGE DISCOVERIES (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) CARDIFF, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. In the early hours of this morning an airship was seen from the Cardiff docks coming from the direction of Newport. It …

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  Roswell Daily Record front page, July 8, 1947 Scan

  Roswell Daily Record ·from Roswell Incident (1947)

  Roswell Daily Record Movies as Usual Levees broke and flood waters rolled into the town of Grand Tower, ill. but while the manager of this movie theater sweeps out the water that has entered the lobby, these youngsters are standing in line for tickets for the night's performance. (AP Wirephoto). Som…

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  Top of the Roswell Daily Record front page: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region Scan

  Roswell Daily Record ·from Roswell Incident (1947)

  Roswell Daily Record tablished 1888 5¢ PER COPY he rolled into the town of Grand Tower, Ill. movie theater sweeps out the water that has waters are standing in line for tickets for the photo). Claims Army Is Stacking Courts Martial Indiana Senator Lays Protest Before Patterson Washington, July 8 (AP…

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  Clipping about Fortenberry's 1957 death Scan

  from The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting over Chesapeake Bay (1952)

  FOUR CREW MEMBERS of the airliner missing on flight from San Francisco to Hawaii are stewardess Yvonne Alexander (upper left) of San Francisco and Katie Kearney (lower left) of H. G. Brown (lower left) of Palo Alto, pilot, and W. H. Fortenberry of Santa Clara, second engineer. There are four others …

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  Portrait of Alex Birch Scan

  from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)
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  Daily Express report of Birch's confession, 1972 Scan

  Daily Express ·from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)

  THE Great Flying Saucer Hoax was revealed yesterday. . . TEN YEARS after it happened—and by the man who pulled off the spoof. Alex Birch, now a 24-year-old salesman, confessed how he fooled the world with a box-camera photo that brought him fame. At the time of his incredible "scoop" Alex was a 14-y…

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  News of the World front page, 2 September 1962 Scan

  News of the World ·from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)

  BOY STARTS NEW PROBE INTO FLYING SAUCERS NEWS OF THE WORLD REPORTER A PHOTOGRAPH boy has started an investigation riddle. The picture, the sky, was taken by playing with friends at his home in Moorcrescent, Mosborough, near Sheffield. He and his father visited the Air Ministry in London, told office…

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  Newspaper cutting on the Birch photograph Scan

  from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)
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  Alex Birch with his camera Scan

  from The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough (1962)