October 17 in strange history
2 strange events from history happened on October 17, plus 66 Canadian UFO sightings.
- 1896In the old newspapers
A horse-headed thing in the Columbia
Clifton, Oregon
Dominick Bule, a salmon fisherman at Clifton, said that at dusk a huge animal rose out of the Columbia twenty feet from his boat. It had a hairy, horse-like head and four tusks a foot long, and stared at him for about two minutes.
- 1952Famous UFO case
The Oloron angel hair
Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
A cigar-shaped craft and a swarm of small discs passed over a French town, dropping white threads that draped roofs and trees.
Canadian UFO sightings on October 17
The Canadian UFO Survey logged 66 sightings on October 17 between 1989 and today, most in 2012 (17). Most came from Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia.
The strangest ones
- 1992 · Ashern, Manitoba · Daylight disc
'manta ray' near house - 2023 · Lunenburg, Nova Scotia · Physical traces
Photo: odd object, zoomed and enhanced, seems to show structure and writing - 2004 · Chilliwack, British Columbia · Physical traces
Spherical cloudlike object in sky - 1999 · Burnaby, British Columbia · Daylight disc, 2 witnesses
Crystalline object near jet; 'morphed' into sphere - 2024 · Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec · Daylight disc
Shiny stationary object in sky - 2011 · , British Columbia · Daylight disc
"lenticular" object paced plane @40,000 ft, over mountains
Source: the Canadian UFO Survey, Ufology Research. Explore every Canadian sighting.
The US Air Force opened 890 Project Blue Book files for sightings in October, 1947 to 1969. Browse the Air Force files.