There are many other interesting and instructive accounts. A special constable, who witnessed the raid, writes: ‘It was at about 11.30 p.m. when I heard the first Zeppelin. I could not, however, see any airship owing to the mist intervening. Several aeroplanes continued to cruise around at great heights with only their little tail lights discernible. People were beginning to return to bed on the assumption that the raid was over, when soon after two o’clock bombs were heard dropping again—this time in the direction of London—together with the noise of heavy anti-aircraft bombardment. We now saw the airship easily just over the north-eastern outskirts of London in the rays of many searchlights. After some minutes of very heavy gunfire she made a graceful sweep and turned tail, going full speed eastwards for home and safety. But though she must have been about 8,000 feet up at this time the searchlights followed with relentless persistency, while all the time the guns were barking madly after her. Then a strange thing occurred. The airship suddenly disappeared and reappeared again—caught up apparently by new searchlights further along the line of its retreating course. She looked much smaller than before. At about the same time a strange red light appeared in the sky almost directly above the airship and the guns immediately ceased to fire. The searchlights never left the invader for an instant now. The hundreds of thousands of people who were again out of doors and witnessing this new and weird development held their breath. Everybody seemed to feel that something dramatic was about to occur.