The Airfield That Wasn’t There – The Time Slip of Sir Victor Goddard
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
How a decorated British Air Marshal flew into a storm — and glimpsed an airfield that shouldn’t have existed.
The strange details he saw in 1935 that only became reality four years later.
The leading theories: time slip, precognition, or just a storm-shaken hallucination?
The Airfield That Shouldn’t Exist
In 1935, decorated British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard flew over an abandoned World War I airfield near Edinburgh. It was crumbling. Overgrown. A skeleton left to rot.
Days later, in the middle of a violent storm, he flew the same route. But this time, the airfield wasn’t in ruins. It was alive.
Mechanics in unfamiliar blue coveralls
Four yellow planes gleaming on the runway
And one man who looked up… and waved
When Goddard landed, he brushed it off as stress or fatigue. Until four years later — when the Royal Air Force rebuilt Drem Airfield… exactly as he had seen it.
Was it a hallucination? A vision? Or one of the most credible time slips on record?
Who Was Victor Goddard?
Born in 1897, Victor Goddard wasn’t a fringe dreamer. He was Cambridge-educated, a WWI pilot, and later knighted for his service in WWII.
Logical. Precise. The kind of man who trusted instruments over feelings. Which makes his 1935 experience all the more unsettling.
The Storm That Changed Everything
Caught in violent weather, Goddard was nearly grounded by a thunderstorm. Then, as if the clouds split in half, he found himself in golden light.
Below him — the future:
Runways restored
Grass cleared
Mechanics in blue uniforms
Yellow Avro Ansons gleaming on the tarmac
And then, as quickly as it appeared, the storm swallowed it again.
Four Years Later…
In 1939, the RAF reactivated Drem Airfield. This time, for real.
Mechanics in blue coveralls
Yellow planes, just like Goddard saw
The same layout he’d flown over in the storm
It wasn’t imagination. He had seen something. But what?
What Really Happened?
Theories abound:
Time Slip — Layers of time stacked like transparencies, briefly visible.
Precognition — A flash-forward triggered by stress and turbulence.
Hallucination — A storm playing tricks on a pilot’s mind.
Truth — A simple glimpse of the future.
Goddard himself never recanted. He repeated the story in print, in lectures, and in interviews. Always the same. Always unwavering.
Why His Story Endures
It’s not just that Goddard saw the future.
It’s who he was.
A disciplined officer.
A man who trusted instruments.
Reporting something unbelievable — without ever profiting from it.
Maybe time doesn’t flow.
Maybe it glitches.
And sometimes, if you’re in the right place at the right moment… you catch it.
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