November 30 in strange history

2 strange events from history happened on November 30, plus 28 Canadian UFO sightings.

1896
In the old newspapers
Pat Nunan's ride in the sky
Sacramento, California
In a Sacramento saloon, a man named Pat Nunan entertained the stove-side crowd with a long account of being lured aboard the airship and taken for a ride. The paper printed it as a comic yarn.
1896
In the old newspapers
Two lights over the Sierra foothills
Melones, California
Around the time the airship was said to have flown south, people at Robinson's Ferry in Calaveras County reported two mysterious lights moving high over the mountains.

Canadian UFO sightings on November 30

The Canadian UFO Survey logged 28 sightings on November 30 between 1989 and today, most in 2024 (9). Most came from British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island.

2015 · Mississauga, Ontario · Daylight disc
2 grey/black rectangle objects size of trucks floated across sky
2024 · Victoria, British Columbia · Close encounter with traces
Lights in sky, building shaking?
1996 · Vancouver, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Object moving slowly in sky
2019 · Asbestos, Quebec · Daylight disc, 3 witnesses
T-shaped yellow object in sky
1991 · Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador · Daylight disc
Bright object with amber glow

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.