November 16 in strange history
2 strange events from history happened on November 16, plus 40 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1897In the old newspapers
Two sea serpents at once off Greenport
Greenport, New York
C. Edwards Stauson, a Greenport drug clerk, came back from a morning's fishing on Long Island Sound with no fish and a story of two sea serpents, each about fifty feet long, swimming together north of Greenport.
- 1921In the old newspapers
A circus ape blamed in Elk Grove
Elk Grove, Wisconsin
Farmers around Elk Grove drove their children to school after reports of a huge ape, said to have escaped from a circus at Platteville that summer, and blamed it for killing a cow. Hunters found nothing.
Canadian UFO sightings on November 16
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 40 sightings on November 16 between 1989 and today, most in 2001 (3). Most came from British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec.
The strangest ones
- 1990 · Surrey, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Disc with "bump" seen? - 2014 · Victoria, British Columbia · Daylight disc
Object in sky shot up into sky leaving an orange vapour trail - 2021 · Watford, Ontario · Daylight disc
Dark triangular object flew by, vanished - 2024 · Montreal, Quebec · Physical traces
Photo: "saucer" found on photo of Moon - 2001 · Whitehorse, Yukon · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Circular object hovered, glowed, gained altitude [weather balloon]
Source: the Canadian UFO Survey, Ufology Research. Explore every Canadian sighting.
The US Air Force opened 1,016 Project Blue Book files for sightings in November, 1947 to 1969. Browse the Air Force files.