An open record of things people cannot explain

January 26

What people could not explain on this date, in 12 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


14
accounts in the record happened on January 26, the earliest in 1977 and the most recent in 2024.

When a lot of people saw it at once

2008-01-26

They described an orange orb and hovering.

The accounts

2018-01-26

Low frequency like bass music from a loud car. It is rhythmic and happens intermittently. The sound intensifies when I lay down in bed because it carries through the bed frame. If I go outside I can't hear it any longer.…

a low hum · voices with no source

2005-01-26

I was taking pictures for my Photography class at Haskell University near the Wetlands. I had walked over a pile of dead and chopped wood into the woods about fifty feet when I heard something ahead. I looked up and saw…

the feeling of being watched

2015-01-26

On January 26, 2015 at 6:55 PM, a witness observes in the sky an orange ball, much brighter than Venus, and twice as big. When the witness, intrigued, wants to take a photo 10 minutes later, the phenomenon has disappeare…

an orange orb

1977-01-26

On the last Wednesday of January 1977, a witness observed from the first floor of a dwelling a flying object in the sky at an altitude of 500 m. This object, shaped like a rugby ball, was imposing and resembled an airshi…

1983-01-26

On January 26, 1983, between 6:55 and 7:08 a.m., several witnesses in the Bouches-du-Rhône saw a white luminous ball moving horizontally. This ball was followed by a colored trail. The observations, lasting between 4 and…

1981-01-26

On January 26, 1981 at around 11:15 PM, a CB radio user in his car noticed, in the clear and cloudless sky, a flash lasting 3 seconds. Intrigued, he leaned out of his car door and then saw a white luminous point that, as…

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