Append-only living-dossier updates for “The Kelso Airship: New Zealand's Zeppelin Scare, July 1909”.https://anomaly-ledger.pages.dev/en-ushttps://anomaly-ledger.pages.dev/cases/kelso-airship-otago-1909/https://anomaly-ledger.pages.dev/cases/kelso-airship-otago-1909/At noon on 23 July 1909 schoolchildren in Kelso, West Otago, watched a boat-shaped “airship” circle over their school. A reporter got six drawings that he called “dumbfounding to all sceptics.” Within three weeks the scare had spread nationwide, and the papers were finding fire balloons, a lantern and a confessed hoax.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublished