June 30 in strange history
2 strange events from history happened on June 30, plus 71 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1884In the old newspapers
Jacko, the British Columbia gorilla
Yale, British Columbia
American papers reprinted a story from Victoria's British Colonist: railway men near Tunnel No. 4, about twenty miles above Yale on the Fraser River, chased and captured a strange creature on the rock bluffs, half man and half beast. It became the famous Jacko story.
- 1908Mystery
The Tunguska event
Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia
A blast over the Siberian taiga flattened millions of trees across 2,150 km² of forest, yet left no crater.
Canadian UFO sightings on June 30
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 71 sightings on June 30 between 1989 and today, most in 2012 (11). Most came from Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia.
The strangest ones
- 2001 · Palmerston, Ontario · Daylight disc, 4 witnesses
Anon. rpt: 5 glowing discs flew above trees near. hwy. [prob hoax] - 2008 · Surrey, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Jelly-bean-shaped object surrounded by smaller objects - 2009 · Toronto, Ontario · Daylight disc
Disc like object appears in video - 2007 · Trois-Rivieres, Quebec · Daylight disc
Anonymous photo of object over ship - 2012 · Oshawa, Ontario · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Object moving across sky, beneath clouds - 2019 · Vancouver, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Between 9000 and 10000 ft, saw a red & white RPAS; police notified
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.