night sighting

Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing five armed young men from Hardin Illinois standing paralyzed on Diamond Island shore at midnight in September 1888 watching their stolen boat move to midstream on the Illinois River with a crimson ball gradually assuming the form of a man in a wide-brimmed slouch hat rowing with long steady strokes surrounded by deep red illumination on the dark river water

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Illinois Sightings

1888: Sighting near Diamond Island, Illinois River, Illinois

Published: August 28, 2016 | Updated: June 15, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|ENTITY SIGHTING REPORT 1888: Sighting near Diamond Island, Illinois River, Illinois For some time before September 1888, the people of Hardin, Illinois...

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Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing three armed men with lanterns and clubs watching from Coney Island beach as a hairy human-proportioned figure with waist-length head hair and long yellow body hair stands knee-deep in the Atlantic surf preparing to submerge on a dark November 1885 night while additional watchers are visible in the distant background on the darkened off-season boardwalk

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New York Sightings

1885: Coney Island Merman Sighting

Published: August 28, 2016 | Updated: May 22, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1885: Coney Island Merman Sighting For approximately ten days in November and early December 1885, something was living on...

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Historical-style painting of the 1836 Szeged sighting showing a luminous lady in white and three spherical lights above witnesses.

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Hungarian Sightings

1836: Szeged, Hungary Lady in White Encounter

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 19, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT 1836: Szeged, Hungary Lady in White Encounter In 1836, near the outskirts of Szeged in southern Hungary — close...

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night sighting

1888: Sighting near Diamond Island, Illinois River, Illinois

1885: Coney Island Merman Sighting

1836: Szeged, Hungary Lady in White Encounter

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