June 26 in strange history

3 strange events from history happened on June 26, plus 55 Canadian UFO sightings.

1891
In the old newspapers
The beacon keeper fights a sea monster
Greenport, New York
Captain Edward Reeve, who rowed out each evening to light the beacon on the Greenport breakwater and was known as a sober, reliable man, told the New York World he had fought off a sea monster from his skiff.
1899
In the old newspapers
A serpent blamed for the vanished menhaden
Bremen, Maine
When the menhaden (pogy) fleet couldn't find a single school along the New England coast, the crew of a small Canadian smack insisted they had seen, sober and in daylight, a serpent over 60 feet long and as thick as a keg of nails, lashing the water to foam and carrying off the…
1959
Close encounter
The Boianai sightings (Father Gill)
Boianai Anglican mission, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
An Anglican priest and dozens of mission villagers in Papua watched figures on a hovering craft, which seemed to wave back.

Canadian UFO sightings on June 26

The Canadian UFO Survey logged 55 sightings on June 26 between 1989 and today, most in 2004 (17). Most came from Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia.

2014 · Longueuil, Quebec · Close encounter with beings
Person with elongated shaped head (3photos)
2015 · Ahuntsic, Quebec · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Video of object moving in sky; [metallic balloon blown by wind]
2017 · Chute-aux-Outardes, Quebec · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
V-shaped object flew overhead; photo
2017 · Pointe-du-Lac, Quebec · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Metallic object shining like diamond in sky
2005 · Winnipeg, Manitoba · Daylight disc
Object like "para-sail" with nothing hanging below it, slowly flew N
2005 · Port Moody, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Small black dots moving E-W, random flashes of light

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

The US Air Force opened 698 Project Blue Book files for sightings in June, 1947 to 1969. Browse the Air Force files.