December 19 in strange history
2 strange events from history happened on December 19, plus 28 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1890In the old newspapers
A rolling ball of fire near Coatesville
Coatesville, Missouri
Every evening around nine a light like a train's headlight rolled across the railroad near Coatesville, rose fifty feet, stopped in an old orchard and graveyard and sank into the ground. As many as fifty people watched it at once. Spiritualists blamed the dead in the graveyard.
- 1896In the old newspapers
The catawampus of Doe Gully tunnel
Great Cacapon, West Virginia
Railroad men reported a strange beast near Doe Gully tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio line that killed a mountain farmer's sheep. A railroad official said he saw it come down to the river to drink. Seven hunters saw it but could not get a shot, and men went to the fields armed.
Canadian UFO sightings on December 19
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 28 sightings on December 19 between 1989 and today, most in 2011 (3). Most came from Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta.
The strangest ones
- 2012 · Bragg Creek, Alberta · Close encounter
Craft with 4 lights on bottom, flying low as if "searching" - 2013 · Brossard, Quebec · Physical traces
Photo of light pillars - 2004 · Kelowna, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Fast fireball, much brighter than Moon, daytime observation - 2004 · Orangeville, Ontario · Daylight disc
Sunlike object photographed(?) - 2014 · Trois-Rivieres, Quebec · Daylight disc
Photo of contrail hanging in sky, as if object falling - 1993 · Cold Lake, Alberta · Close encounter, 1200 witnesses
Source: the Canadian UFO Survey, Ufology Research. Explore every Canadian sighting.
The US Air Force opened 617 Project Blue Book files for sightings in December, 1947 to 1969. Browse the Air Force files.