Hovering Collection

Ufos / Cowichan / Kendall
In a hospital at Cowichan, Vancouver Island, Canada, nurse Doreen Kendall draws back the curtains and sees this hovering UFO with occupants

Cover design, International Exhibition, Brussels
Cover design, Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles (Universal and International Exhibition, Brussels), with international airship competitions

Bristol 173 / 3 XE286 hovering at Old Mixon in November 1956
Bristol 173/3, XE286, hovering at Old Mixon in November 1956. Date: 1956

St Stephen / Gosselin
STEPHEN THE DEACON, the first Christian martyr, is stoned to death at Jerusalem, but a little angel hovering overhead assures him of a place in Heaven

Gunfight over Dinner Date: 1954

Dassault Mirage Iiiv Balzac V 02 Vtol Prototype Hovering?
Dassault Mirage Iiiv Balzac V 02 Vtol Prototype Hovering During a Test-Flight Date: 1965

Florence Cook, medium, with Katie King behind her
Florence Cook (c.1856-1904) was an English medium who claimed to materialise a spirit named Katie King. This photograph, taken during a seance at the house of William Crookes

Ufos / Gill / New Guinea
At Boianai, Papua New Guinea, missionary William Gill and 37 others see a hovering saucer whose occupants wave to them : it returns the next night

Songe D'Amours!
This illustration depicts a heavenly scene in which a young lady is experiencing a dream of love a group of children's heads with angelic wings are hovering around her as she lie in her bed

Amiens and the Cloud
A landscape oil painting showing a distant view of Amiens, a city in northern France, that is divided by the Somme river. The city is shown with looming great clouds hovering above. Date: circa 1919

Mlle Ameta Butterfly Dancer
Performance artist Mlle Ameta uses costume, lighting effects and newly-invented machinery to perform her butterfly dance in Vienna. Date: circa 1910

Graveside Grave Death Burial Headstone Woman
graveside, grave, death, burial, headstone, woman, women, child, children, grief, grieving, bereavement, mourning, angels, angel, wings, people, family, hovering, faith, belief, religion, 1850s

Cartoon, first German victory, Moineville, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Their First Victory, showing a dead priest at Moineville, north-eastern France, on the frontier with Germany

SPIRIT PHOTO HUDSON
A male sitter reads a book, unaware that a female spirit - possibly his dead mother - is hovering behind him. Date: circa 1872

Japanese scenes
Mother and children watching a stork hovering over a lake. Artist: Alice Cook Date: circa 1918

Futuristic hydroplane
A futuristic hydroplane, skimming along the surface of the sea. Date: 1899

CRAMP UFO
Leonard Cramps impression of a gravitationally propelled spacecraft, depicted hovering in a lunar crater Date: 1966

Short seaplane Type 184 hovering above the sea, WW1
A British Short seaplane Type 184 hovering above the sea during the First World War. It was a two-seater plane, used for reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying. Date: 1915-1918

UFO over the valley at Hessdalen, Norway
A characteristic sighting of a Hessdalen light as it moves down the valley, sometimes hovering. Some lights have been observed covering distances of 20 km, for a half hour or more

Greetings card in the shape of a strawberry, with a hovering bee. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Bulbous light hovering over Hessdalen, Norway
This bulbous light is seen to swell in size while retaining something of a classic domed disc saucer configuration. Mysterious lights appear regularly over Hessdalen, Norway

Book cover design, All About Aircraft, by Ralph Simmonds, London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1915. Showing an airship hovering over a range of mountains. 1915

Spirit Photo Ada Dean? 1921
Unattributed spirit photograph but probably by medium, Ada Dean. Sitters Mr Rist and wife? with an unidentified male spirit hovering above them both

Gull swoops above an empty rowing boat
A gull swoops above an empty rowing boat with oars resting across the sides. The boat rests propped up on some small rocks close to a large lake, glowing in the evening light

Cartoon, William Gladstone asleep, with insect MPs hovering over his face -- How the Grand Old Man manages to take forty winks with a lot of pestiferous flies buzzing about him is a wonder! 1884

Sleeping girl on a Christmas card
Sleeping girl in bed with her doll on a Christmas card, dreaming of her presents. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies and sleeping girl on a Christmas card
Fairies with gifts, hovering round a sleeping girl on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Cartoon, Epic song, WW1
Cartoon, Epic song. A pretty French woman sits at a table, with four British soldiers hovering nearby. She says its typically the soldier she likes the look of most who doesn t understand French

Vought-Sikorsky helicopter by G. H. Davis
Hovering death for U-boats: the Vought-Sikorsky helicopter, in use during the Second World War. Details of a unique aircraft joining in the Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1943

Georgina Houghton, spiritualist writer and medium
Georgina Houghton (?-1887), spiritualist writer and medium, seen here with her mothers spirit hovering behind her. The photographer was later exposed as a fraud. Date: 19th century

Graf Zeppelin airship hovering above the ground
The German Graf Zeppelin airship hovering above the ground, with a crowd of people below it

Repeating Pattern - Hummingbirds -pale yellow background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

EWR VJ101C X1 hovering

Piasecki XHUP-1 hovering hands-off on the automatic pilot

Short SC1 undergoing hovering trials from the specially built platform

The second Do31 hovering rig was known as the Big Rig and first flew on 7 February 1967. It was powered by six lift-jet engines. Date: 1967

The first Do31 hovering rig was known as the Control Systems Test Rig and first flew in 1964. It was powered by four Rolls-Royce RB108 lift-jet engines. Date: 1964

The first Hawker P1127 XP831 during hovering tests
The first Hawker P1127, XP831, during hovering tests

The first Hawker P1127 XP831 during tethered hovering test
The first Hawker P1127, XP831, during tethered hovering tests

The Short SC 1 V. T. O. L. research aircraft
The Short SC 1 V.T.O.L. research aircraft making a transition from hovering to forward flight

Threnetes niger cervinicauda, pale-tailed barbthroat
Plate 14, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.1, (1849-61)

Alauda arvensis, Eurasian skylark
Plate 15 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phaethornis anthophilus, pale-bellied hermit
Plate 24, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.1, (1849-61)

Hummingbird
Plate 337, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

Heliodoxa imperatrix, empress brilliant
Plate 192, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.4, (1849-61)

Aglaeactis cupripennis, shining sunbeam
Plate 179, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.3, (1849-61)

Mr Sadler in balloon over Oxford
To the Right Honourable Lord Grenville, Chancellor of the University of Oxford - the ascent of Mr Sadler, the celebrated British aeronaut, at Oxford. Showing two men with flags hovering in a balloon

FIRE
A hand hovering over a burning flame! Date: 1971

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