November 23 in strange history
3 strange events from history happened on November 23, plus 37 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1869In the old newspapers
The Scottish Bride meets the serpent and its young
Lewes, Delaware
Captain Allen of the bark Scottish Bride, arriving from Bordeaux, said he had passed the great sea serpent at sea, and that a smaller serpent swam with it. The New York Sun ran his description and it was copied from Minnesota to Nevada.
- 1896In the old newspapers
Streetcar riders see an airship shaped like a bird
Oakland, California
Passengers on a streetcar near Oakland watched a light in the direction of Haywards and said they could make out the outline of a craft shaped like a huge bird, throwing a beam of light ahead of it.
- 1953Military encounter
Kinross incident
Lake Superior, near Kinross AFB, Michigan
An F-89C Scorpion jet was sent to intercept an unidentified radar target over Lake Superior. Ground radar watched the jet's blip merge with the target, then both disappeared. Pilot Felix Moncla and radar operator Robert Wilson were never found.
Canadian UFO sightings on November 23
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 37 sightings on November 23 between 1989 and today, most in 1989 (5). Most came from Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec.
The strangest ones
- 1990 · Surrey, British Columbia · Contact or abduction claim
Alleged "repeat" abduction - 2017 · , Quebec · Physical traces
Report is simply post of anonymous Youtube video of spacecraft - 1989 · St. Saveur-des-Monts, Quebec · Daylight disc, 4 witnesses
Lights seen in S, targets seen on radar, jet scrambled - 1989 · Monarch, Alberta · Daylight disc
Disc-shaped object with lights on outside, flew N at high speed - 1996 · Sudbury, Ontario · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Featureless object with tail; slowly moved near stacks; no flashing lights - 2002 · Terrace, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 5 witnesses
Bright light over mountains. Grew smaller, dimmer, disappeared
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.