December 4 in strange history

3 strange events from history happened on December 4, plus 27 Canadian UFO sightings.

1872
Mystery
The Mary Celeste
Atlantic Ocean, between the Azores and Portugal
A Nova Scotia-built ship was found drifting and seaworthy, with her cargo intact and all ten people gone.
1891
In the old newspapers
The Lake Kenosia serpent is captured
Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury announced that the famous Lake Kenosia serpent had been caught. Warren Baker, driving along the shore, saw what he took for a big tree limb across the road until his horse shied. The creature was said to be almost twenty feet long and covered with scales.
1901
In the old newspapers
An escaped 'gorilla' on the Eastern Shore
Seaford, Delaware
Papers said a gorilla had escaped from a circus at Seaford in September. A cyclist near Bethel Camp Ground said it knocked him off his bicycle and punched him before he fired two shots and fled, and a man on the Choptank said he saw a strange animal go into a marsh thicket.

Canadian UFO sightings on December 4

The Canadian UFO Survey logged 27 sightings on December 4 between 1989 and today, most in 2017 (3). Most came from Quebec, British Columbia, Yukon.

2013 · Mission, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
U-shaped cylinder moving slowly in WSW, low on horizon
2009 · Vancouver, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Several objects in sky that did not look like planes
2018 · Mt-Laurier, Quebec · Physical traces
Photo: object in photos like moon [lens flare]
2014 · Longueuil, Quebec · Daylight disc
Object split into 2 parts
2021 · Summerside, Prince Edward Island · Daylight disc

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.