August 7 in strange history

2 strange events from history happened on August 7, plus 65 Canadian UFO sightings.

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Famous UFO case
The Basel black spheres
Basel, Switzerland
Five years after Nuremberg, Basel saw a blood-red sun and then a sky full of black spheres racing in front of it at sunrise.
1897
In the old newspapers
A Sunday school superintendent sees it dance
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Three Hartford men fishing on Long Island Sound, one of them a Sunday school superintendent, said an all-black sea serpent passed their boat, writhed about and then vanished. The paper reported it in a teasing tone.

Canadian UFO sightings on August 7

The Canadian UFO Survey logged 65 sightings on August 7 between 1989 and today, most in 2012 (9). Most came from Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario.

2005 · Vita, Manitoba · Daylight disc, 3 witnesses
Wingless missile followed by aircraft, going NW-SE
2025 · Anoop Lake, Alberta · Daylight disc
No footage: CADORS 2025C4633: "cylinder-shaped object” @ 39,000 feet
2000 · Powell River, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Observed shiny object at high altitude. Certain not normal aircraft. After watching it for 1 to 2 minutes, it appeared to reverse its cours
2005 · Winnipeg, Manitoba · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Stationary object with protrusion, hovering in sky, vanished
2016 · Thetford, Quebec · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Yellow light moving fast in the sky
2022 · Nanaimo, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Metallic unmanned aerial vehicle encountered @2000ft 2022P1542

Source: the Canadian UFO Survey, Ufology Research. Explore every Canadian sighting.

The US Air Force opened 1,178 Project Blue Book files for sightings in August, 1947 to 1969. Browse the Air Force files.