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Captain White and the Falmouth tug Triton: the 100-ft sea serpent off the Longships (1903)
September 1903 · About 15 miles off Longships Lighthouse, Land's End, Cornwall
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
15Thinly documented
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The Big Wheel of Fire on the Grey Stone Road, Isle of Man (published 1902)
1902 · Ballakillowey, Rushen parish, Isle of Man
Isle of Man
UAP · Other · 18 sources
5Thinly documented
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Captain Jim Hooton's airship landing near Homan, Arkansas
April 20, 1897 · Homan, near Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas
United States
UAP · Other · 24 sources
18Thinly documented
Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897
November 17, 1896 · Sacramento, California, then Northern California, the Midwest and Texas
United States
UAP · Cigar · 45 sources
41Partially documented
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The Winsted Wild Man
c. 1895 · Between Winsted and Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
35Partially documented
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The SS Umfuli Sea Serpent
December 4, 1893 · Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, south of the Canary Islands (about 21°40′N, 17°30′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
16Thinly documented
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Storsjöodjuret, the Great Lake Monster of Jämtland: the 1893 sighting and the 1894 capture company
October 13, 1893 · Storsjön (or Åssjön near Ås), near Östersund, Jämtland
Sweden
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
19Thinly documented
The Crawfordsville Monster
September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
26Thinly documented
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The Crawfordsville Sky Monster
September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
United States
UAP · Creature · 31 sources
23Thinly documented
The Bonilla Observation: 447 Objects Across the Sun, Zacatecas 1883
August 12, 1883 · Astronomical Observatory of Zacatecas, Cerro de la Bufa, Zacatecas
Mexico
UAP · Other · 24 sources · 1 photos
25Thinly documented
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The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83)
c. 1883 · Blackness Quarry, the Hilltown and north-east Dundee, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
17Thinly documented
Maunder's "Strange Celestial Visitor": the auroral torpedo of 17 November 1882
November 17, 1882 · Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, with sightings across England, the Netherlands, Belgium and France
United Kingdom
UAP · Cigar · 25 sources
33Partially documented
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The Crosswick Monster, Warren County, Ohio (1882)
May 1882 · Crosswick (Crosswicks), Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio, about one mile north of Waynesville
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
21Thinly documented
The Galisteo Junction "Aerial Monster" and the Collector of Curiosities, 1880
March 26, 1880 · Galisteo Junction (now Lamy), Santa Fe County, New Mexico Territory
United States
UAP · Cigar · 22 sources
30Partially documented
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HMS Vulture's Revolving Wheels of Light, Persian Gulf, 1879
May 15, 1879 · Persian Gulf, Lat. 26°26′ N, Long. 53°11′ E, aboard HMS Vulture
International waters
UAP · Other · 16 sources
22Thinly documented
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Major H. W. J. Senior's sea serpent from the SS City of Baltimore, Gulf of Aden, 1879
January 28, 1879 · Western Gulf of Aden, east-southeast of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (lat. 12° 28′ N, long. 43° 52′ E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
19Thinly documented
John Martin's "Large Saucer" over North Texas, 1878
January 22, 1878 · Near Denison, Grayson County, Texas (possibly near Dallas)
United States
UAP · Other · 12 sources
11Thinly documented
Spring-heeled Jack at the Aldershot Sentry Posts
March 1877 · Aldershot Camp (North Camp and South Camp), Aldershot, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
21Thinly documented
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The Aldershot Sentry "Ghost": Spring-heeled Jack at North Camp, 1877
March 1877 · North Camp, Aldershot Camp, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 16 sources
18Thinly documented
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The Sheffield Park Ghost: Spring-heeled Jack scare and the nightly crowd hunts of 1873
May 1873 · Cholera Monument Grounds and Clay Wood, Park district, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
20Thinly documented