On This Day in Weird, January 14....
1699: Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for wrongly
persecuted "witches."
1902: An eight-foot-tall hairy creature, armed with a club,
chases young skaters from a pond at Chesterfield, Idaho.
1933: A giant squid washes ashore on the coast of
Scarborough, Yorkshire.
1943: Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, author of The Great Sea
Serpent (1894) and The Loch Ness Animal (1934), dies at Arnhem, in
the Netherlands.
1945: Witnesses report an orange UFO, five feet in diameter,
over Ingweiller, Germany.
1950: Workers at the nuclear research facility in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, watch a "fiery ball of light" hover over the restricted
area for two minutes.
1951: Private pilots report UFOs over Jolon and Big Bear
Lake, California.
1953: The CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence convenes a
four-day conference on UFOs.
1954: Radar operators at Kelly Air Force Base, in Texas,
track three UFOs for 110 minutes, scrambling fighter jets whose pilots see
nothing. Five hours later, a B-47 crew passing over New York City reports that
a fiery object has struck the plane's wing, causing no damage,
1955: An airline pilot en route from Virginia to Kansas sees
a dark UFO leaving a contrail.
1965: A witness in Thaxton, Virginia, watches a B-52 bomber
pass overhead, followed by a cigar-shaped UFO. Nine other witnesses report UFOs
over Dooms and Staunton, Virginia. Luminous, humming objects hover above
Wilmot, New Hampshire, disrupting electrical devices.
1972: Two sheriff's deputies watch a six-foot biped covered
in gray hair cross a highway near Drexel, North Carolina.
1997: A spherical gray UFO with red and yellow flashing
lights swoops toward witnesses at Bloemfontein, South Africa. They report a
gray face with large dark eyes peering from one of its portholes.
2002: An Aberdeen-based trawler nets a female giant squid,
10 feet long with its tentacles missing, off the Scottish coast.
2002: A locomotive and two railroad cars suffer damage after
striking some unknown hovering object. Engineers report that the locomotive's
electrical system "went haywire" before the collision,
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