December 3 in strange history
2 strange events from history happened on December 3, plus 20 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1896In the old newspapers
A Fresno barkeeper meets the inventor
Fresno, California
George Jennings, part owner of the bar at Fresno's Grand Central Hotel, said a stranger came in claiming to be the airship's inventor and told him the craft had been caught by an air current and was now somewhere in Fresno County.
- 1896In the old newspapers
A tin airship falls into a gulch
San Francisco, California
A San Francisco story, reprinted in Kansas, said a 40-foot airship of galvanised sheet steel sailed over Twin Peaks, lost control and plunged into a gulch near the Corbett road, bruising its two crewmen. Reporters described its twisted propeller.
Canadian UFO sightings on December 3
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 20 sightings on December 3 between 1989 and today, most in 2019 (3). Most came from Alberta, Ontario, Quebec.
The strangest ones
- 2021 · St-Jerome, Quebec · Daylight disc
Photo: bright object stationary in sky - 2025 · Winnipeg, Manitoba · Daylight disc
No footage: "very shiny airplane but it was flying so low and then it - 2004 · Calgary, Alberta · Daylight disc
Silver streak in W sky, going SW, stopped, started up again
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.