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November 28 in strange history

2 strange events from history happened on November 28, plus 28 Canadian UFO sightings.

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  1. 1888
    In the old newspapers

    A horned black beast in the Great Bear Swamp

    New Brunswick, New Jersey

    Farmers around the Great Bear Swamp lost sheep and hogs two winters running, finding only oddly shaped tracks. The one witness, a hired man the paper called of doubtful veracity, said it was a big black monster with horns, twice the size of a sheep.

  2. 1896
    In the old newspapers

    Nevada men say they saw it weeks earlier

    Silver City, Nevada

    After reading the California stories, two Silver City men said they had seen the same airship about six weeks before, though at the time they took it for a meteor or a comet.

Canadian UFO sightings on November 28

The Canadian UFO Survey logged 28 sightings on November 28 between 1989 and today, most in 2023 (3). Most came from British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec.

The strangest ones

  • 1990 · Richmond, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
    Noiseless inverted triangle of lights
  • 2019 · Sechelt, British Columbia · Contact or abduction claim
    Photo: stationary light in sky seen for 4+ hours; later, "magnetic speck" on witnesses' ear
  • 1997 · Vancouver, British Columbia · Daylight disc
    "odd-looking vapour trail" disappeared quickly
  • 1997 · Vancouver, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
    Contrail moving across sky

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.

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