An open record of things people cannot explain

April 8

What people could not explain on this date, in 15 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


19
accounts in the record happened on April 8, the earliest in 1956 and the most recent in 2024.

The accounts

1984-04-08

It was spring break 1984 and I was 16 at the time. My dad myself and my brother were on this trip to visit my mother in Florida. When we got about half way through Virginia I was just looking out the window, bored of cou…

a very tall figure

2012-04-08

A witness reports observations of the sky made on April 8, 2012, first around 10 p.m. and then around 11:30 p.m. The witness films his last observation. The direction indicated by the witness (the Jura mountains) at an a…

2015-04-08

On April 8, 2015 at around 7:15 PM, a witness seated on a sofa under a skylight observed the passage of a bright white flying object, with no visible logo. The object with V-shaped wings made a curve, then climbed vertic…

a triangle shape

1956-04-08

On April 8, 1956, at around 11:40 PM to 11:45 PM, three witnesses in the municipality of La Londe (76) observe, in the clear night with no Moon, in a westerly direction, a red ball. The phenomenon seems stationary for se…

red lights

2011-04-08

On April 8, 2011, at around 11:30 PM, a witness in a car observed a bright light in the sky. He stopped and opened his window and then noticed a huge craft fitted with blinding white lights, stationary about 50 meters ab…

a triangle shape

2014-04-08

On April 8, 2014, between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., a witness observes, through a slightly open bay window, the silent straight-line movement of a set of fluorescent green lights, connected to each other by lines and exten…

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