"Airship" Only Venus?

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 26, 1913:
One Theory in Regard to Apparition That Is Frightening England.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Feb. 25.— Further reports of a mysterious airship seen at night come from Hull.
    The suggestion is now made that a certain light in the western sky, seen nightly and taken for an airship's searchlight, is none other than the planet Venus, which for the past few nights has been shining brilliantly.