An open record of things people cannot explain

December 31

What people could not explain on this date, in 18 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


24
accounts in the record happened on December 31, the earliest in 1958 and the most recent in 2023.

When a lot of people saw it at once

2009-12-31

They described moving in formation and vanishing suddenly.

2002-12-31

They described .

The accounts

1999-12-31

GEIPAN is re-examining old cases in order to be more relevant in its conclusions. Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination someti…

aircrew or pilots

1994-12-31

Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classification. This observation case…

blue light

1977-12-31

In 1977 my family and I were visiting my grandmother in Marion, IL (Williamson County) for the Holidays during what was called "the blizzard of '77". This being my first experience of heavy snow I was amazed at how hushe…

screaming or howling

2000-12-31

It was during the winter of 2000-2001 and a friend and I were trying to pass the long winter in rural north Idaho with a "snow hike" to a waterfall. The closest town is called Clark Fork, population: a couple hundred. Th…

footprints

2014-12-31

When my aunt was about 11 or 12 years old, she was helping her older cousin (Jerry) in the field at her aunt's house in an area called "Screamer" in Henry County, Alabama. It was a hot day, and after some time Jerry grew…

1996-12-31

Two winters ago at around 9:20p.m. I was coming back from dropping off the person I was dating at the time. The conditions were sleet and ice and I shouldn't have even been driving, but there were news reports that we wo…

screaming or howling · footprints

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