An open record of things people cannot explain

July 17

What people could not explain on this date, in 19 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


27
accounts in the record happened on July 17, the earliest in 1970 and the most recent in 2024.

When a lot of people saw it at once

1998-07-17

They described hovering.

The accounts

1997-07-17

DATES: (#1) 7-16-97 at 2:00 pm, (#2) 7-18-97 at 2:30 pm, (#3) 7-21-97 Between 7:20 am & 7:45 am, (#4) 7-21-97 at 7:45 am (#5) 7-24-97 (#6) 8-17-97 Steve Goodbread is a tour guide for Pelican Tours. On Wednesday 7-16-97 a…

something walking upright · a humanoid that was wrong · footprints

2003-07-17

My friends and family and I were Kayaking across Sullivan Lake in North Eastern Washington. We had spent the entire day slowly making our way around the side of the lake that is unpopulated (there is a highway on the opp…

the feeling of being watched

2008-07-17

My girlfriend and I where on vacation in Idyllwild for the week and wanted to hike up to Lily Rock to the fire lookout cabin, but we couldn't get to the main trail head due to my girlfriends fear of driving without chain…

1970-07-17

When I was a child before bigfoot was known to me, we went on a family camping trip in Butterfield Canyon in the Oquirrh mountains below Kennecott Copper Mine. There were six people there. Two adults and four children. T…

screaming or howling · growling · hovering

2013-07-17

On July 17, 2013 at around 11:50 PM, a witness observed from his home a white, luminous, and stationary phenomenon. The observation lasted one minute before the phenomenon went out, then turned back on 30 seconds later b…

aircrew or pilots

1986-07-17

While training at Ft Carson, I was on patrol with a Marine Recon Agressor Force, agressing fire batteries in simulated attacks. My patrol attacked the HQ company, and during the withdrawal, I was separated from my unit.…

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