May 5 in strange history
2 strange events from history happened on May 5, plus 46 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1893In the old newspapers
Provincetown fishermen kill a 'sea serpent'
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Weir fishermen found their fish trap churning yellow and a mass of dark ridges filling it: a single eel-shaped animal nearly thirty feet long, which they killed after a fight. Papers announced the sea serpent captured; it was most likely a large shark or other fish.
- 1909In the old newspapers
Captain Doughty captures the devil
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Captain George Doughty was said to have overpowered the Jersey Devil just outside Atlantic City after it attacked him. It turned out to be a huge bird of unknown species, with claws like a vulture's, feathers like an albatross's and a parrot's beak, and it was put on exhibition.
Canadian UFO sightings on May 5
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 46 sightings on May 5 between 1989 and today, most in 2012 (8). Most came from Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia.
The strangest ones
- 1992 · Belmont, Ontario · Daylight disc, 4 witnesses
5 photos in sequence; blimp? - 2025 · Val-des-Sources, Quebec · Daylight disc
No footage: "saucer with 5 black things under," disappeared into a cloud - 2011 · Toronto, Ontario · Daylight disc
Video: Many "orbs" in patterns in the sky [skywriting] - 2025 · West St. Paul, Manitoba · Daylight disc
Photo: shiny ball floating slow in NE over city
Source: the Canadian UFO Survey, Ufology Research. Explore every Canadian sighting.
The US Air Force opened 758 Project Blue Book files for sightings in May, 1947 to 1969. Browse the Air Force files.