Older UFO sightings 1
Occurred : 6/15/1947 10:00 (Entered as : 06/15/47 10:00) Reported: 3/12/1999 Posted: 3/21/2003 Location: Winona (approx. 20 mi. northwest of), MN Shape: Disk Duration:15 sec 2 unmoving round objets side my side like eyes streight overhead above the fiew clouds that drifted under them. They did not move and I dont remember even looking at them the second time. they were white as the clouds but not metalic shining. I was very young like about only 4 years old at the time and I am 55 now this was one of the two times I was a wittness of UFOs. These objects did not move enough for me to notice. they were not like the weather balloons that were prevalant during those days but because these were right over head and not like the side view that the weather baloons were. None of the characteristics below fit the objects that I observed. We were poor people that had to raise as much food as we could in the summer months to have enough food for the cold winters we have here. Mom was a mother of 8 and practically alone in her endever to raise us. so we spent a lot of time in the large gardens we had at that time. For the most part we ignored the objects and went back to our task of hoeing the strawberry plants growing in that particular garden plot. **** Oct., 1947; Dodgeville, Wisconsin. 11 unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles. *** Aug. 11, 1948, 1200, Hamel (Minnesota). Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object 70 cm in diameter, 30cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid telephone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure.
March 3, 1950; Selfridge AFB, Michigan. 11:05 p.m. Witness: st Lt Frank Mattson. One intense, dull yellowish light descended vertically, then flew straight and level very fast for 4 minutes. *** 1951-10-11; USA, Minnesota, Minneapolis Extremely important sighting by two airborne balloon observers, General Mills-Navy balloon project; observers were in a plane, sighted two smoky-gray cigar shaped objects moving at terrific speed. http://www.worldofthestrange.com/cev477.html Oct. 11, 1951; Minneapolis, Minnesota. 6:30 a.m. Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds. --- Minneapolis, Minn., October 11, 1951. Extremely important sighting by two airborne balloon observers, General Mills-Navy balloon project; observers were in a plane, sighted two smoky-gray cigar shaped objects moving at terrific speed. Also one of the objects was sighted and briefly seen in a theodolite by a ground observer. There are far more private pilots than airline pilots, so it is not surprising that there are more UFO sightings from the former than the latter. An engineer and former Air Force P-38 pilot, Joseph J. Kaliszewski, flying for the General Mills Skyhook balloon program on balloon-tracking missions saw highly unconventional objects on two successive days in October, 1951 (Refs. 5, 7, 10). Both were reported through company channels to the official investigative agency (Bluebook), whose report (Ref. 7) describes the witnesses as "very reliable" and as "experienced high altitude balloon observers." On October 10, at about 10:10 a.m., Kaliszewski and Jack Donaghue were at 6000 ft in their light plane, climbing toward their target balloon, when Kaliszewski spotted "a strange object crossing the skies from East to West, a great deal higher and behind our balloon (which was near 20,000 ft at that time)." When I interviewed Kaliszewski, he confirmed that this object "had a peculiar glow to it, crossing behind and above our balloon from east to west very rapidly, first coming in at a slight dive, leveling off for about a minute and slowing down, then into a sharp left turn and climbing at an angle of 50 to 60 degrees into the southeast with a terrific acceleration." The two observers had the object in view for an estimated two minutes, during which it crossed a span of some 45 degrees of the sky. No vapor trail was seen, and Kaliszewski was emphatic in asserting that it was not a balloon, jet, or conventional aircraft. The following morning, near 0630, Kaliszewski was flying on another balloon mission with Richard Reilly and, while airborne north of Minneapolis, the two of them noticed an odd object. Quoting from the account submitted to the official agency (Ref. 7, Rept. No. 2): "The object was moving from east to west at a high rate and very high. We tried keeping the ship on a constant course and using the reinforcing member of the windshield as a point. The object moved past this member at about 50 degrees per second. This object was peculiar in that it had what can be described as a halo around it with a dark undersurface. It crossed rapidly and then slowed down and started to climb in lazy circles slowly. The pattern it made was like a falling oak leaf inverted, It went through these gyrations for a couple minutes and then with a very rapid acceleration disappeared to the east. This object Dick and I watched for approximately five minutes." Shortly after, still another unknown object shot straight across the Sky from west to east, but not before Kaliszewski succeeded in radioing theodolite observers at the University of Minnesota Airport. Two observers there (Douglas Smith, Richard Dorian) got fleeting glimpses of what appeared to them to be a cigar-shaped object viewed through the theodolite, but could not keep it in view due to its fast angular motion. In my conversations with Kaliszewski about these sightings , I gained the impression of talking with a careful observer, in full accord with impressions held by three other independent sources, including Air Force investigators. Discussion: The October 10 sighting is officially categorized as "Aircraft," the October 11 main sighting as "Unidentified." When I mentioned this to Kaliszewski, he was unable to understand how any distinction could be so drawn between the two sightings, both of which he felt matched no known aeronautical device. Clearly, objects performing such intricate maneuvers are not meteors, nor can they be fitted to any known meteorological explanations of which I am aware. Instead, these objects seem best described as devices well beyond the state of 1951 (or 1968) technology. *** Nov. 24, 1951; Mankato, Minnesota. 33:53 p.m. Witnesses: USAF or ANG pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E. Stewart in P-51 Mustangs. One milky white object shaped like Northrop flying wing (broad, slightly swept- back wing with no fuselage or tail). Estimated 8' span. Flew straight and level for 5 seconds. *** Date: 6/18/1952 at 9 am Location: Columbus, WI Source: Project Blue Book U.S. AIR FORCE PROJECT BLUE BOOK CASE (OFFICIALLY LISTED AS "UNKNOWN": Case Number : 1302 June 18, 1952) Columbus, WI, 9 a.m. Witness: R.A. Finger. One crescent-shaped object hovered for several seconds and then sped away. UFOSSI **** April 14, 1952; LaCrosse, Wisconsin. 12:35 p.m. Witness: unidentified CAL airline pilot. Several light colored objects flew in V-formation. No further details in files. April 27, 1952; Roseville, Michigan. 4:15 p.m. Witnesses: H.A. Freytag and three male relatives, including a minister. One silver oval rolled, descended and stopped. Two silver cigar- shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. Sightings lasted 45 minutes. May 25, 1952; Walnut Lake, Michigan. 9:15 p.m. Witnesses: seven persons, including John Hoffman, his family and friends. One large white circular object having dark sections on its rim, flew straight and level for 30 minutes, appearing red when behind a cloud. June 1, 1952; Rapid City, South Dakota. 6 p.m. Witnesses: A/lc Beatty and two civilians. At least five long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 seconds. June 9, 1952; Minneapolis, Minnesota. Case missing from official files. June 18, 1952; Walnut Lake, Michigan. 10 p.m. Witnesses: Marron Hoffman and four relatives, using 4x binoculars. One orange light was observed zigzagging and then hovering for an unspecified length of time. July 19, 1952; Williston, North Dakota. 2:55 a.m. Witness: one experienced civilian pilot. One elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, travelled down fast, made a 360* and then a 180* turn in 5 minutes. July 27, 1952; Selfridge AFB, Michigan. 10:05 a.m. Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crewmen on ground. Many round, white objects flew straight and level, very fast. Two at 10:05, one at 10:10, one at 10:15, one at 10:20. Each was seen for about 30 seconds. July 29, 1952; Osceola, Wisconsin. 1:30 a.m. Witnesses: radar operators on ground, pilot of F-5l Mustang in flight. Several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. Small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 kts. (60-70 m.p.h.), following each other. The large one moved at 600 kts. (700 m.p.h.). One hour total time. Pilot confirmed one target. Aug. 6, 1952; Port Austin, Michigan. Case missing from official files. Sept. 14, 1952; White Lake, South Dakota. 7 p.m. Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer L.W. Barnes, using binoculars. One red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it, flew west, then south, and then was gone. Seen 30-40 minutes. Dec. 9, 1952; Madison, Wisconsin. 5:45 p.m. Witnesses: Capt. Bridges and lst Lt. Johneon in USAF T-33 jet trainer. Four bright lights, in diamond formation, flew at 400 m.p.h. and were passed by the T-33 at 450 m.p.h. during the 10 minute sighting. Feb. 17, 1953; Port Austin. Michigan. 10:04 p.m. Witnesses: two officers and three airmen of USAF AC&W squadron, visually and by radar. Visual object appeared to larger and brighter than a star and changed color; it was seen to move slowly for 5 minutes until 10:09 p.m. Radar picked up a target at 10:08 p.m. moving in a similar direction for 17 minutes, at similar speed. March 29, 1953; Spooner, Wisconsin. 3:45 p.m. Witness: L.C. Gillette. One aluminum, circular object flew high and fast, twice reversing its course. Note: Mr. Gillette saw a similar object in 1938. Fifteen second sighting. June 1, 1954; from 400 miles south to Minneapolis, Minnesota. 9 p.m. Witnesses: crew of USAF B-47 jet bomber at 34,000' altitude. One object with running lights flew at 24-44,000' altitude for 1 hour. *** Occurred : 6/1/1955 02:00 (Entered as : 1955 02:00) Reported: 5/16/1999 15:18 Posted: 3/21/2003 Location: Bagley, MN Shape: Circle Duration:2 hours I was 5 years old at the time, family of 4 told they would remember nothing. I managed to break free of the (mind) control just before they left. Over the years there has been return visits by more than one type of being. One did not want for there activitys known by the other. At 10 years of age I was made to forget. When my son was 5 years later they returned and wanted to know about any activities with other aliens. They imployed mind control on both myself and my son, both of us broke from there control just before leaving the house with them, I was unable to move, but was able to tell my son to fight them, he kicked and punched two of the aliens near him. When hit they did not respond in any way? They seemed like puppets being controlled remotely, arms and legs of at least 6 (small greys) aliens move together (in sync). When hit they went blank (stopped moving). At this point I no longer felt fear, and they again had control of me. My son also remembers this encounter, only about 2 or 3 minutes. After that I only broke out 2 other times for very short periods of time. One: as they took me into there craft (a joke looked shabby). two: laying down inside being interrogated. When 10 years old on the day I was told I would forget, I wrote what I knew down on paper, put it in jar, buried it behind our home and started a fire on top of it. Then I went a got the cattle for my dad too milk. This is were they said I would think of them for the last time. Coming back I was surprised by men in the woods putting out the fire that I started. At first I couldn't even remember that I set the fire. Years after I remembered I had started the fire and had buried something. I have looked but would need to dig up a space of around 30 sq feet. *** National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report Occurred : 3/22/1956 17:30 (Entered as : 03/22/1956 17:30) Reported: 5/5/2004 Posted: 5/10/2004 Location: Hampton, MN Shape: Sphere Duration:minutes Commuting home from work during an ice storm I encountered a UFO. I have this information in my word processing program. I would prefer to send you hard copy of the events. I saw them on two different occasions exactly 1 week apart at approximately 5:30 p.m. The first one was 15 miles away from the second one. The first one was approximately the size of a medcine ball, the second was different. It was shaped like a set of bar bells, spheres separated by a bar of glowing light. The light was a gloden glow like the filament of light bulbs. Had my car windows been open I could have reached out and touched either of them, therefore, they had to be within 2ft of my face. Both objects glowed like the filament of a light bulb. Both were silent. The first or perhaps both of them were highly energized. The first one occurred during an ice storm. My boss sent me home from work early due to the weather. I was a bit out of Coates, Minnesota southbound on Hwys 52 & 56 when I noticed this large ball of light drifting across the field towards me. Due to the foul weather I was only driving 15 or 20 miles per hour, the UFO I would guess was going about the same speed. The road was very icy and I couldn't stop. It was so icy the car was sheathed in a coat of ice 1/4" or more thick. The ice hadn't even melted directly over the center of the engine after having traveled about 15 miles from my work place. The ball came across the field, into the ditch and up onto the road. I thought it was some form of ball lightening though I had never seen that phenomena previously. It came across the shoulder and onto the pavement. I couldn't stop because of icy road conditions. Also, I thought I'm in a car with four good rubber tires under me and as soon as this lightening touched the car it would dissipate. The ball came up the corner of the car and across the hood at a diagonal. It just missed the corner post on the driver's side of the car. It then went down the side of the car and continued across the highway and the field on that side. It continued on it's path from the southeast to the northeast. During it's transit, the car engine cut out cold. I don't recall if I had to restart it as the car did keep moving, I may have turned the key again to start it. Where it had come across the hood the metal was instantly dry. The right side of the hood was still encased in ice. The edge of the 'cut' was smooth as if cut by a knife. The rest of the ice remained on the car for several hours after I arrived home, my husband commented on the dry section and remaining ice when he saw the car. Precisely one week later, same time of day, 15 miles south of the first encounter and on my own street, 1/2 mile east of my home, another UFO appeared. This was the one shaped like two basketballs with a bar between them. This one circled the car twice as if pearing in on me and checking my out. Why, I don't know, but nine months later I gave birth to my only child. The car was a 52 Chevy in almost new condition. The contact melted the component where all the wires and distribution system for the electrical system was. The annoyance from all electrical components malfunctioning repeatedly after that got to be too frustrating for us and we got another car. Two men in black did come to my door following this incident. I didn't want to get involved with them and I told them I thought it was two incidents related to ball lightening. However, I have lived a lot of years since and have never met with the same phenomena since. Unbeknownest to me, I had serious birth defects in my reproductive system. When the doctors finally found them and removed my uterus; they were amazed that I had been able to have a child at all. When this boy and I were younger we both could change traffic lights at will, switching the lights from red to green. Since then there have been changes made in traffic control technology and that is no longer possible. *** Mar. 08, 1957, night, Baudette (Minnesota). A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It was luminous, about 5.5m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow. *** To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:46:26 EDT Subject: My Sighting: F-89s Pursue Object Since we're discussing F-16s and F-94s chasing UFOs over Washington DC, I'll post my own somewhat similar sighting from St. Paul, in 1957, if it's of interest to readers. Its significance to me is this: 1. It was chased by military jets, and observed from the ground, just as in the Washington cases of 2002 and 1952. 2. If the jets chasing the object were F-89s (I'm almost certain they were), the object should have appeared on the jets' radar screens. 3. To my knowledge, it has never been reported to the "authorities". 4. To my knowledge, it has never been reported BY the authorities (the Air Force anywhere, Project Blue Book, etc). 5. It was my first sighting of a UFO. Location : St. Paul, Minnesota Year: 1957 Shape : Light/Object Summary: A bright light was apparently chased by several military jets. In the fall of 1957, between mid-September and early October, shortly before the Sputnik satellite went up, I was in front of our house in St. Paul, Minnesota when I heard the roar of F-89s (the only plane based in the area which made that much noise, so I presumed they were probably F-89s). The F-89 was an all-weather, 2-seater, twin engine fighter interceptor based at the main airport, flown by the Air National Guard. With its very loud J-35 jet engines, they never or rarely ever flew at low altitudes over the metro area at high throttle. It wasn't unusual to hear them take off, but it sounded as if the noise was lasting longer than usual this time. It was about 7:00pm, and already dark. I couldn't positively identify the planes, but there was nothing else located there which made that much noise. The Air Force and Navy military areas of the airport also hosted F-80s, T-33s, C-47s, C-119s, Navy Phantoms, P2V Neptune sub hunters, helicopters, and miscellaneous others - none of which made such a horrendous racket. Commercial jets were not yet using the MSP airport except for 1 French twin engine jet (the Caravelle airliner) which came and went, one day during that general era, as part of a sales mission. After hearing the jet noise for an unusally long time, I eventually looked up to see if the planes were visible, and saw a row of red-hot exhaust pipes (or exhaust) and navigation lights all westbound, coming from the east at perhaps 5,000 feet (just a guess). It looked like a string of firey brands travelling in a single file, and, as I recall, there were 6 of them. They were making one heck of a racket, and I took them to be F-89's. Then I noticed a bright light in the sky - much bigger and brighter than Venus, except this light was in the wrong place to be Venus: it was south-southwest from me at an angle of almost 45 degrees, and hanging nearly over the main airport (MSP). At first I thought it must be some kind of expensive, well-done prank involving a lighted balloon. (I knew the Piccard family, at the time (the balloonists), and Don Piccard's name flashed through my mind, for a second, as possibly being connected with this sight. In fact, he _was_ doing some ballooning around that time, I later found out, but in Pennsylvania - not Minnesota.). Then I thought it might be a helicopter with a large, intensely bright light pointed in my direction. As I pondered this situation, I noticed that the jets appeared to be headed straight for the object. The object remained in place as if it had all day to make up its mind if it were going to move or not. Finally, it DID begin to move - slowly at first - away from the jets, towards the southwest. The jets adjusted course to the southwest. Then the object picked up more and more speed, and finally turned off its brilliant white light, and sped away. It was still barely visible for a few moments after it switched off its light, and had a dull, glowing orange appearance, and had some small white lights around the main body. The jets followed in that direction, and eventually disappeared. After a few minutes, all the noise finally stopped. I ran into the house and checked all the TV channels expecting to see a report on the object chased by the F-89s, but there were no reports then or later. Then I finally sat down to read the evening paper. On the front page was a small article which said: "Mystery Object Sighted Over RAF Base. A mystery object was sighted today over one of Britain's RAF bases, but when pursued, it doused its light and sped away." I cut out the article and posted it on the bulletin board in our high school science class, explaining that I might have seen the same object. Submitted for what it's worth. Dave Morton *** Aug. 17, 1958; Warren, Michigan. 7:05 p.m. Witness: A.D. Chisholm. One extremely bright object shaped first like a bell, then like a saucer, hovered for 5 minutes, flipped over and sped away to the west-south-west. Sighting lasted 6-10 minutes. *** Occurred : 10/20/1958 21:00 (Entered as : 10/20/58 2100) Reported: 3/12/2000 01:35 Posted: 3/21/2003 Location: St. Paul, MN Shape: Other Duration:2 seconds A dull-orange craft sped southbound at low altitude and high speed toward the general direction of the airport. It was October of 1958, and I had been out collecting for my paper route. (In those days, paper boys collected the bill from customers monthly, in person. I usually quit collecting for the evening around 9:00pm.) Rather than going straight into the house when I got home, I decided to get on my bike and amble somewhere. I started traveling down the alley at a slow pace - going nowhere in particular - and I saw the glow from the lights of the college football field, and decided to head over there and check the score of the game. I gazed upward and noticed that the night was filled with stars; it was absolutely clear and pristine. What a knock-your-socks-off beautiful night! I looked forward again, down the pitch black alley, and I suddenly saw a strange, dull-orange craft streak across the sky, over the football field, heading southbound, parallel to Snelling Avenue. It appeared like 2 bat-wings cut out of an orange paper plate, with 3 sides in total (front, back of left wing, back of right wing), and all sides smooth and rounded, except the tips which had normal points. Its altitude was perhaps 300 feet. Viewing time was perhaps 2 seconds. I could easily tell: It wasn't from "around here". I slammed on the brakes of my bike, and just stood there in the dark stillness of the night, realizing that I had just seen my second UFO, and that I couldn't prove it to a single soul... There had been no other witnesses that I know of. The stars kept shining, and the crowd watching the game would occasionally cheer, and the traffic kept moving up and down Snelling as the people went about their business, scurrying to and fro... Years later, around 1978 or so, I was watching a documentary movie on TV called "Flying Saucers Are Real" or something like that, when I saw an account of a UFO encounter by an Army helicopter. This happened in Ohio, when a Lt. Col. Coyne and his crew were effortlessly pulled up several thousand feet by a large ship. An artist had made colored drawings, based on Coyne's testimony (he went public with it). It was an enormous, gray, metallic hulk of hi-tech engineering, and it had a dark red design on the nose which I recognized. The design was a kind of 4-pronged "splat", or jelly-fish, or thick cross-hairs, which if viewed from the side, appeared to be a kind of bat wing, or unusual flying wing (not like the Northrup flying wings). I suddenly realized that what I'd seen back in October of 1958 was POSSIBLY the nose art of a much larger craft. What appeared to me like a large, orange craft, had possibly just been the tip of the iceberg of a MUCH larger, huge, gray, silent piece of engineered metal... Either way, it was big, fast and silent. *** Nov. 3, 1958; Minot, North Dakota. 2:01 p.m. Witness: M/Sgt. William R. Butler, medic. One bright green object, shaped like a 10 cent piece, and one smaller, silver round object. First object exploded, then second object moved toward the location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasted 1 minute. *** National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report Occurred : 6/23/1959 22:00 (Entered as : 06/23/1959 22:00) Reported: 12/20/2003 Posted: 1/17/2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Shape: Formation Duration:2 hrs Flying while in the Marine Corps in a AD Skuraider & with a wing man, at apprx 6,000 ft observed Four Red cly objects estimating at 20,000. 11:00 O clock-radioed to wing man--He also saw it--decided to chase. As we gained alt to 18,000, the objects moved at a very fast rate & disappeared at approx 3 minutes--they were not in a Military formation--Course this was era when any Pilots reporting any such sightings were somewhat harrassed & sometimes released from the Military--after landing, asked my wingman what He observed and Stated, Nothing & I said nothing--Did not report it nor did I--Talked about it only till I left the Corps--ironic about this is that My girl had taken some pictures about that same time over a Hilly area & the pic had a Red dot image on it--approx 1 year later in the So Calif at a lake, observed 5 white objects approx 29,000 again, not in any Military formation scrambling in no particular order--on the late nite news someone filmed the same objects--nothing what said about it in any type Media after that--Do I believe in UFO s? Not sure, but?! ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)) *** Sept. 13, 1959; Gills Rock, Wisconsin. 1:05 a.m. Witness: R.H. Daubner. One round yellow light, with eight blue lights within it, and then five larger red lights, flew very fast vertically while making a pulsating jet noise. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.
Occurred : 2/1/1960 22:15 (Entered as : 02/xx/60 2215)
Reported: 3/12/2000 02:21
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
Shape: Cigar
Duration:3 seconds
A cigar-shaped UFO glided down towards the earth at a 45 degree angle, but was
lost in the ground clutter.
It was February, 1960 when my friend LB and I had stopped at a local dairy store on
Grand Avenue, bought our candy and chatted with the owner, and left when it closed
at 10:00pm. We walked over to the vocational school next to our old grade school,
and stood talking about aviation and rockets and anything interesting. There had been
an F-84 parked in front of the vocational school for a few years. The school had
removed the jet engine and taken it inside to be used in training jet engine mechanics.
The plane remained out front as an advertisement for the school. Eventually,
someone must have gotten nervous about the possibility that a kid might hurt
himself on it, so it was towed away. So that's where LB and I liked to stand and talk:
it was near the F-84 - or at least, where it now USED to be... It was now around
10:15pm. LB and I had been talking and trying to keep warm for about 15 minutes.
The conversation felt like it was winding down, which was fine with me: it must
have been around 20 degrees outside. Suddenly, while LB was saying something,
I saw an unbelievable sight. It's fantastic - but I swear I saw it. A huge, cigar-shaped,
wingless, engineless, noiseless lighted craft appeared from behind something - I
think it was an apartment house - and quietly and swiftly glided down an imaginary
slope as if it were on invisible railroad tracks. Each end was tapered and blunted -
like the lit end of a fresh cigar. It was silvery in color, and had 8 to 10 round portholes
with white light coming out of them. I did not see anyone or anything inside the ship.
It was roughly in front of me and to my left - behind LB - and seemed very close:
perhaps less than a block away. I was absolutely stunned. It was huge, it was
bright, it was close, and it was moving closer. I thought it was going to land or
crash. I was nearly speechless and momentarily afraid to move. My left arm shot
out past LB's shoulder and I yelled, "LOOK!!!". LB has always been noted for his
quick reactions, but for some unknown reason he reacted slowly on this occasion.
He started to turn to his left (the wrong way), then changed his mind and turned
slowly to his right (towards where I was pointing). By the time he was fully turned,
the ship had disappeared behind ground clutter - houses, trees, bushes, etc. I
yelled, "It should reappear over there!", pointing and running towards where I
thought it might reappear. But it never emerged. It was apparently gone forever.
While I was trembling and out of breath, LB was calm, collected, and slightly
puzzled and bemused. Did LB - the world's greatest skeptic - believe me?
Certainly not. He didn't think I was lying - he knew I wouldn't lie to him, but he
thought that perhaps I'd seen an optical illusion caused by the newly installed
mercury street light, a hundred or more feet away. But, as to practicality, I've
seen billions and billions of mercury street lights, yard lights and playground
lights, and not once have I thought I saw a silvery, cigar-shaped UFO come
gliding out of the night in their vicinity - EXCEPT for that one time. Science, to
be science, must be repeatable. LB's theory is not repeatable, nor can it be
science. I saw what I saw - so far, once and only once in my lifetime.
***
March 4, 1960; Dubuque, Iowa. 5:5 Morris. Three elliptical-shaped objects made
a slight climb for 4 minutes. Film exposed during sighting showed no images
of the objects.
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Occurred : 8/1/1960 23:00
Location : No. Wisconsin Lake, Crystal, WI
Shape : Circle
Summary : It was dark and then lit up. A huge white round object (flat?) moved
at great speed and disappeared. This was the time when the ufo started to appear.
A flourscent white at least the size if not larger of Epcot Center globe. Only
one was seen. (NUFORC)
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Spring, 1961, Eveleth, MN: Possible CE3/CE4:
The witness was a child at the time of this event. He describes
the sequence of events as follows:
He got up and got out of bed, unlocked the front door, and walked
up the hill to the Eveleth water tower. He indicated that entities
were awaiting him at the top of the hill, in proximity to a large
landed lenticular disk. He remembers nothing more of this event,
but has vague memories of his mother then finding him (after a
search of the neighborhood) and leading him home. On the way home
he apparently continued talking about the "men" he had encountered.
The witness to the this event is also the primary witness of the 1978
Douglas County, WI events (see below). He contacted us after a
presentation on CE4 cases at at the Feb, 1998 MN MUFON meeting.
MN MUFON is currently investigating this event, as well as the 1978
Douglas County events.
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Feb, 27, 1961; Bark River, Michigan. 10:15 p.m. Witness: Mrs. LaPalm. One
fiery-red, round object, preceded by light rays, slowed and descended, while
her dog howled. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.
July 7, 1961; Copemish, Michigan. 11 p.m. Witness: waitress Nannette Hilley.
One large ball flew slow, split into four after 45 minutes. Four flew close
formation, descended and flew away to the west. Total sighting lasted 1 hour.
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10-14-1961 Flying Log?
Mrs. Erwin Riley, a summer resident at Two Harbors, Minnesota, reported that at about 5
p.m. on Saturday, October 14, 1961 she saw an object about the size of an ore-carrier (a large
ship) skid into the water of Lake Superior about a mile from shore where it bobbed on the
surface. She summoned a neighbor, Jack Ray. Ray, using binoculars, could see an object but
couldn't make out what it was.
The Lake County Sheriff was called but it was beginning to get dark and he could barely
make out an object between swells. Thinking that it might be something dropped by an aircraft
participating in AF exercises Saturday, Sheriff Falk called the Air Force and Coast Guard.
Shortly after he left the area, according to Mrs. Riley, the object rose into the air and
traveled in a southeasterly direction "at about the speed of a car traveling on the highway."
Coast Guard and air search Sunday morning found only a four-foot floating log,,
E. R. Grummett, who forwarded this report, says that floating logs are fairly common in this
area where they occasionally break away from log booms being floated to the paper mills at
Ashland, Wisconsin. He informs us further that there are no ore boats under 600 feet in length
operating on the Lakes anymore and offers the opinion that no floating log could be mistaken
for an object the size of an ore boat a mile off shore.
A clipping from-the Duluth, Minnesota News-Tribune for 19 October quotes a letter from
Mrs. John P. Vanicky of Hurley, Wisconsin in which she tells of sighting the same or a similar
object, except that her sighting took place on the 15th, or Sunday. She said she was driving
home from Marquette with. her sister Mrs. Norine Gribble when. they first sighted the object in
the air. They thought it was a jet plane at first and kept watching it. It was traveling too slow
for a jet, however, and looked like a huge cigar with no lights. It was a "sort of brownish color,"
they said. Fire seemed to be streaming from the rear end of it which faded into a white streak.
The time was between 5 and 5:30 p.m. at dusk, and it was traveling in a southeasterly
direction. They stopped the car and watched it for about 20 minutes until it finally disappeared
from sight. The white streak It left was visible for a much longer time. Mrs. Vanicky said that the
explanation of a four-foot-long log did not satisfy her.
In this instance we may have two similar sightings on two different days or the same or
two objects on one day--take your choice. However, inasmuch as the object seen by Mrs. Riley
was observed as it landed in the lake, we have this comment: We can accept the log
explanation if someone can explain what the deuce the log was doing in the air in the first
place. Mrs. Riley indicates that the object "or log" was not in free fall, but rather was "landing"
or controlled. It later took off---smarter than the average log, we'll wager.
This Reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, November, 1961, p. 3
Secondary Reference: Invisible residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 226,
© 1970 Ivan T. Sanderson.
UFOCAT PRN 76779
Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA – Latitude 47.01 N, Longitude 91.40 W
Note: The second sighting is inland and not water related, therefore Lat. & Long. left out.
Point of entry (UFOCAT)……... - Latitude 47.02 N, Longitude 91.04 W
Reference: The National Gazetteer of the United States of America, Prepared by the U.S.
Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Washington,
D.C. 1990.
***
Nov. 23, 1961; Sioux City, Iowa. 9:30 p.m. Witness: F. Braunger. One bright
red star flew straight and level for 15 minutes.
00/00/62 22:00 Morrice, MI
Cigar
Summer 1962 - Large and small identical craft hovered at tree top level for several
minutes 2- yards from 2 observers. (NUFORC)
Jun. 04, 1963, Lyle (Minnesota).
A multicolored object, the size of a light truck, was reported to have landed in
the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area over 3 km wide on both sides of the
Iowa-Minnesota border, with no results.
***
Occurred : 6/15/1963 11:30 (Entered as : 06/15/63 11:30)
Reported: 7/29/2002 9:50:38 AM 09:50
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: North St. Paul, MN
Shape: Disk
Duration:1 minute
Group of three saucer ufos sighted by five children on June 15, 1963 in North St. Paul, MN.
On a bright, sunny Saturday afternoon, my brothers and sisters and I were at nearby
elementary school (two doors down from our home) playing baseball on the front lawn.
I was only about 6 years old at the time. Someone, I can't recall whichof us, spotted
three silver saucer type ufos in the sky, just off to the southwest. They didn't appear
very far away, and you could easily see them through the treetops (though they may
have been much higher in actuality). There was no sound whatsoever emitted from the
space crafts and the view was clear. To this day we all remember the sighting. I ran
home to tell my parents, but within seconds the saucers vanished. ((NUFORC Note:
Date is approximate. PD))
***
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 7/11/1963 20:00 (Entered as : 07/11/1963 20:00)
Reported: 6/15/2004
Posted: 6/18/2004
Location: Albert Lea, MN
Shape: Oval
Duration:6 min
It was a round blue that glowed and moved toward us slow without making
any noise.
Blue light about 50ft long. Just before dark about 9:30. Didn't make any
noise. I ran up to it and tried to jump and touch the bottom of it.
After this sighting I was always a year behind. In those days when you
turned in your homework or any school work you always wrote the month
day and year. I kept on thinking it was 1963 when it was in fact 1964.
Have you ever heard of anything like this.
((name deleted))
((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not
indicate that fact. We have not heard of that type of time anomaly. PD))
***
May. 05, 1964, 0830, Comstock (Minnesota).
A farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field and fly rapidly into
the cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a depression and imprints in
the ground.
April 3, 1964; Monticello, Wisconsin. 9 p.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. R. Wold
(he was a graduate student in anthropology). Four huge red lights in a
rectangular formation, with a white light above, were near the ground, tilted
and flew away after 3-4 minutes.
July 16, 1964; 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan. 11:15 p.m. Witness:
Northern Air Service pilot K. Jannereth. Four white lights in a stepped-up
echelon formation, were joined by two more. They closed in on the airplane,
then rapidly slowed nd flew along with it for a total of 5 minutes.
Nov. 14, 1964; Menominee Falls, Wisconsin. 9:40 p.m. Witnesses: Dr. G.R.
Wagner, MD; and two girls. Three dim, reddish lights flew through a 160^ arc
in 5-6 seconds.
Apr. 08, 1965, 2130, Kindrae (Minnesota)
A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 m away, in the northwest at 30 m altitude.
It turned east, then left toward the south. First seen as a single, bright
light, then two luminous sources were visible through a "door" in the object,
which appeared metallic. Radio interference was noted.
Apr. 26, 1965, 1700, New London (Minnesota).
Gary X. , 9, saw an object which came down silently and hovered at ground
level 60 m away. A sort of periscope emerged from it, and a strange noise (also
heard by the boy's father) was noted. After 1-2 min the "periscope" disappeared,
the object rose, and then dashed up at unbelievable speed.
May 7, 1965; Oxford, Michigan. 7:30 p.m. Witness: M.E. Marshall. One light,
like a satellite, split into two parts, one of which was copperish color,
then two more joined up. One object may have been tumbling. Sighting lasted
1 minute.
July 6, 1965; Kiel, Wisconsin. 9:30 p.m. Witness: Mrs. E.R. Hayner. One
flashing light, like a satellite, was seen for less than 1 minute. No further
data was in the files.
***
08-04-1965 Duluth, MN, USA. St. Louis Bay Bulletin, Rochester, MN, August 5, 1965
underwater ufo in minnesota
***
Occurred : 8/8/1965 23:10 (Entered as : 8/8/65 2310)
Reported: 2/11/1998
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Shape: Changing
Duration:2 min.
A firery ball came from a high altitude at a steep angle in the
northern sky. It leveled off and changed to a dome shape with a
pulsating red light on top. A white light glowed underneath as it
flew level in a NW direction.
I am a private pilot (at age 16) with USAF pilot training in T-37
jet. Three of us saw a fire ball enter the atmosphere at a steep
angle. It was trailing red fire as it came down at high speed. It
leveled off at a few thousand feet and became a dome (lampshade)
shape with a pulsating red light on top and a yellowish-white light
shining below. It was several miles to the north so we had a side
view as it leveled off and slowed way down. It was moving in a
westerly direction at approximately two or three thousand feet. It
made no sound and the sky was clear and very dark. It got smaller
as it flew to- ward the west at several hundred miles per hour. We
lost sight after two minutes when it was hidden by the trees on the
horizon.
***
Wadena, MN; Wadena Co; USA
8/65, 5 PM
minutes
Sun, partly cloudy, no precipitation, light wind
One
Biconvex lens-shaped disc
Silver-aluminum
Slow. 30 - 40 mph?
Silent
30 - 60 feet diam.?
Daylight Disc/No lights
Simple geometric shape. No windows, exhaust, sound, lights, attachments.
50 - 75 yards
200 - 400 feet
West
35 - 45 degrees
Slowly flew into distance
Westerly at slow, even speed.
North
Vehicle/solid object
Psychological effects
Under cloud ceiling
Within 500 feet of ground
Within 500 feet of witnesses
Continuous flight
Sighting occurred about August 1965 when I was about nine+ years old.
Attention drawn to distant reflection to ENE. Thought reflection was
conventional aircraft with metal skin. Watched closely but object moved
much slower than an airplane or jet aircraft. Object was moving almost
directly toward my sister and I. Eventually a simple disc-shaped object
was clearly apparent. Object flew from east to west, north of my sister
and I, at low altitude and very close. Object maintained steady speed
and flew slowly to the west. Visibility was excellent that afternoon
before my mother went to work. Sister agreed as to shape of object,
flight characteristics, etc. All estimates of speed, elevation,
distances, etc. are from vivid memory. Sighting inspired continued
interest (~37 years). Other sightings made at irregular intervals from
1973 to present.
***
Sept. 25, 1965; Chisholm, Minnesota. 9:55 a.m.
Witness: Bett Diamon. Five orange lights in a row flew fast and made an
abrupt turn during the 1 minute sighting.
***
ST. GEORGE, MN
10/21/65
(Unexplained Mysteries)
Deputy Sheriff Arthur Strauch photographed a UFO in the presence
of other witnesses. It was disc-shaped and silvery with a
spinning outer rim.
***
Long Prairie, MN
10/23/65
Here is a word by word account of the 1965 Long Prairie event
as written in the Lorenzen book "Encounter With UFO Occupants"
published in 1976.
Three tiny "tin men" star in the case at Long Prairie, Minnesota
on October 23, 1965. According to his story, Jerry Townsend,
nineteen, a fledgling radio announcer, was driving from Little
Falls to Long Prairie at 7:40 PM on the night in question. At
about four miles out of Long Prairie he rounded a curve; his
engine, lights, and radio went dead, so he braked his car. Ahead
of him was a rocket-shaped object, about 30 or 40 feet high and
ten feet in diameter, resting on three fins in the middle of the
road. Townsend got out of his car, walked toward the front fender,
then stopped at the sight of three little bear-can shaped "objects"
which came from under the ship and moved toward him. They were 6
inches high, walked on two "fins," and when they stopped, a third
"fin" came down in the rear. He saw no faces, eyes, etc., and said
they moved from side to side in a waddling gait. They seemed to be
watching him. After what seemed to be an eternity, he said, they
went under the big "rocket," and disappeared into it. The object
then took off. The "colorless" light which issued from the bottom
of the "rocket" went out after it was airborne. The object's takeoff,
Townsend said, looked like someone had "lifted a flashlight off
a table."
The wrapup on this case included inquiries to teachers and friends.
Townsend got a clean bill of health as far as his reputation for
honesty was concerned. After the object left, he drove to Long
Prairie where he told of his encounter at the sheriff's office.
Sheriff Bain told us via telephone that Townsend had a good
reputation, was not a drinker, and that he had been visibly
frightened when he reported his experience. Bain and Long Prairie
police officer Lavern Lubitz returned to the spot where the object
was reportedly seen, and found three parallel strips of oil-like
substance about 4 inches apart and a yard long, on the surface
of the road. "I don't know what they were, but I've looked at a
lot of roads and never saw anything like them before," Bain told
reporters later. As you can see, I had a slightly different version
of the story when I recited this case at the last MUFON meeting.
Perhaps many older cases are not quite perfectly accurate.
Dick Moss
***
Nov. 16, 1965, Cyrus (Minnesota).
T. Untiedt was driving on Highway 28 about 5km west of Cyprus when he saw
a red flourescent, cylindrical object with a cone on top, 4m long and 2m
in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The car slowed down as the observer
was 400m away from the object, which took off toward the northeast.
November 16, 1965, Herman, Minnesota
Radio failed, engine of car started to act up as object went over the road.
November 26, 1965, St. Paul, Minnesota
Simultaneous power failure and UFO sighting.
Dec. 20, 1965, Herman (Minnesota)
Edward Burnd, 15, was driving west in a farm truck when he saw an object 2 m
above the road about 30 m away. As the engine died, the object glowed red and
the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke, the truck was facing east and
rested in a ditch.
***
UFO Sighting Report: Bagley, Minnesota - april 22, 1966 - UFO Evidence
http://www.ufoevidence.org/newsite/sightingdetail.asp?ID=2805
Date april 22, 1966
Location Bagley, Minnesota
Date Posted: 10/30/2004 2:39:40 PM
Day/Night: Daytime
No. of Witnesses: several
No. of Object(s): Single
Full Description & Details:
Apr. 22, 1966 Bagley (Minnesota). Several people were said to have
observed an object fly at low altitude and land outside Bagley. Four dwarfs
seemed to make repairs, then the craft flew away. (FS Mar., 67)
1966 - An orange sphere was seen flying over the coast at Figueira da Foz, Portugal at
nine p.m. local time. At 3:30 p.m. CDT--within an hour of the sighting in Portugal--a flying
saucer flew down the main street of Bagley, Minnesota at a low altitude, jumped over a
school bus and landed on the outskirts of town. Four beings of small stature got out of the
UFO, seemed to do some work on it, got back in and then took off.
(Sources: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos case investigation files; David F. Webb & Ted
Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-18; Ray Palmer, Flying
Saucers, March 1967, p. 24; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966
http://www.ufocat.com/on_this_day/April22.html)
I remember the bus and I am currently having my mother living in Bagley check the paper
for that date.
Personal Background
ROGER J. KVANDE 2215 East 97th Drive Thornton, CO 80229
(303) 451-0429 rjkvande@hotmail.com
EDUCATION BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY Bemidji, Minnesota 56601
DEGREE: Bachelor of Science - Electronics/Industrial Arts
Other Comments
Another abduction in Bagley Minnesota, 1953 and 1978, Mother and my son are involved.
From: "Rocky Kvande"
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: ship
There was no pilot seat, buttons, or any visable controls, or portals to see
out. The center of the craft was an empty space allowing access to
horizontal recepticals(inside the wall of the ship), which are the only life
support on the ship. Once inside, the ship telepathically connects to your
mind, your body becomes the ship, and the ship becomes an extenstion of your
mind. Visually everything 360 degrees around the ship is part of your
vision, you have to focus your mind up, down, forward to see in one
direction. You can reach out with your arms to feel anything outside the
craft(you can reach out to planets and feel thiem). To move you only have
to think it, in any direction. I also remmeber learning to land from space
on a planet. Have you ever heard of any discription of a ship of this kind?
Rocky
From: Rocky Kvande
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Hello, I remember having control over this craft, doesn't it sound like
something a 15 year old would do? After the craft landed I was able to
hide in long grass, and crawl away. I didn't remember it till I found the
following on the web. I remember the inside of the craft and how to fly it.
The bus was the trigger. I have no idea who turned this one in?
***
6/1/66 13:00 Carson City, MI
Disk
My cousin & I were both 7 and we were behind our grandmother's when we noticed a
silver, smooth, shimering disc about 20" wide and 10" tall. (NUFORC)
***
Occurred : 6/18/1966 11:00 (Entered as : 06/18/66 1100)
Reported: 7/24/2003 4:12:26 PM 16:12
Posted: 8/1/2003
Location: Duluth, MN
Shape: Disk
Duration:15 min
Intell at Winnepeg disembark and debreif all passangers from a NW 727 after a
close encounter over Lake Superior.
NW 727 in Jet route over Lake Superior from Detriot to Winnepeg. Contacted
Houghton Radio in Upper Michigan with a report of a "silver disk" going around the
airplane, passing close to the wings. Pilot said that all on board saw and were
terrified. Minneapolis center at Farmington contacted us (29th Air Divison, SAGE)
and asked if we had contact on our radar with the aircraft and did we see any raw
data near the 727. I worked in Weapons on the third floor of the sage bldg. and
was involved with some practice intercepts involving two ANG F-102 interceptors
in a low altitude area just south of the Lake. Sawyer High at Mps Ctr called me
and asked if I saw it. I said that I did see the Airliner but not any extra raw data,
but I said that I'd keep an eye on it. 2 Minutes later we saw a trail of something
(eight raw paints) break south and it appeared to either go out of the atmosphere
or into the lake before disappearing. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
***
Jan. 05, 1967, 0430, Winsted (Minnesota).
A civilian man, 32, driving to work in his 1964 Chevy truck, had to stop and
inspect the vehicle when its engine stalled. Only then did he observe an intense
light to his right, coming closer. He saw it land on the road, and locked himself
inside the cabin. The craft settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25m in
diameter and was 10m high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and
a man dressed in blue coveralls "with something like a glass fish bowl on his head,"
ofmedium height, seemed to check something and left.
Mar. 12, 1967, Rochester (Minnesota).
A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object resembling an inverted
mushroom hovering 10 m above ground. It was not larger than a car, took a 45
(degree) orientation, oscillated, and left to the northwest. Three photographs
were reportedly taken.
Feb. 12, 1967; Grand Rapids, Michigan. 3:40 a.m. Witness: Mr. Lou Atkinson.
Four fluorescent, football-shaped objects, a dull, almost grey luminous color;
flew northeast in a very rigid formation for 4-10 seconds. Made a chirping noise.
Feb. 16, 1967; Stoughton, Wisconsin. 9:11 p.m. Witness: Miss Lynn Marsh. One
light with faded edges seemed to follow observer in her car for 5-6 minutes.
Feb. 20, 1967; Oxford, Wisconsin. 3:10 a.m. Witness: USAF veteran/truck driver
Stanton Summer. One orange-red object flew parallel to truck for 2 minutes.
Feb. 27, 1967; Grand Haven, Michigan. 8:19 p.m. Witnesses: Sheriff Grysen, wife
and others. Large white light, with smaller red and green lights seen to the
sides. Made almost instantaneous 90^ turn to left, shot out over road and
March 9, 1967; Onawa, Iowa. 9:05 p.m. Witness: Jack Lindley. One bright white,
saucer-shaped object, as big as a jet airliner, flew straight and fast to the
east for 2 minutes.
March 22, 1967; Wapello, Iowa. 10:20 p.m. Witness: Douglas Eutsler, 15.
Fluorescent, solid, multicolored lights stood still, then flew away at high
speed after 1 minute.
March 6, 1967; Benton Harbor, Michigan. 12:01 a.m. Witnesses: Jerome Wolanin,
assistant news director of radio station and former policeman, and wife. One
round saucer or oval-shaped object with red, green and yellow lights around
bottom rim which pulsated red. Flew level, east to west, and was joined by
second object from west. First object opened top, second came over and hovered
for 30 seconds and disappeared. Sighting lasted more than 40 minutes. Objects
made hissing sound.
***
Occurred : 7/1/1967 01:00 (Entered as : 07/01/1967 1:00)
Reported: 6/5/2004
Posted: 6/18/2004
Location: Chatfield, MN
Shape: Unknown
Duration:unknown
No sighting, but strange sounds and flickering lights after midnight.
I'm guessing at the date, it may have been as late as the early 1970s. The time of day
is also uncertain, but was after midnight. I should also mention that since early childhood
I would not go to sleep unless the shade in my room was pulled because I was afraid
of eyes looking at me. I awoke due to a odd pulsating, whirring sound and noticed
flickering lights on my window shade. I called to my father, who was sleeping on the
couch in the living room (due to my mother not feeling well), but all he did was mumble
incomprehensibly. I was very fightened and simply covered up my head with a blanket.
I don't recall if I mentioned this to my parents in the morning.
((NUFORC Note: Time and date are approximate. PD))
***
WUFOD I1-707 MN
ABSTRACT: VIEWED 3 DIAMOND SHAPED CRAFT FROM AN ALLEY.
Date: 10/00/1967 20:00CST
DURATION: 1-5_minutes
LATITUDE: 45
LONGITUDE: 95
COUNTY: KANDIYOHI
NEAR_TOWN_OR_CITY: ATWATER, MN USA
SITE: town
SKY: clear
TOTAL_WITNESSES: 2
WITNESS_LOCATION: grouped
WITNESS_AGREEMENT: yes
WITNESS1_AGE_GROUP: adult
WITNESS1_EXACT_AGE: 47
WITNESS1_GENDER: male
WITNESS1_OCCUPATION: engineer
WITNESS2_AGE_GROUP: adult
WITNESS2_EXACT_AGE: 47
WITNESS2_GENDER: male
WITNESS2_OCCUPATION: manager
NUMBER_OBSERVED: 3
ELEVATION: varied
LOWEST_ALTITUDE: treetop
DISTANCE: 101-500_feet
FLIGHT: straight_line_path
DIRECT_FIRST_OBSVED: W
DIRECT_LAST_OBSVED: E
SHAPE: diamond
SURFACE: dull
STRUCTURE: louvres
APPARENT_SIZE: larger
ACTUAL_SIZE: 11-30_feet
SURFACE_COLOR: grey_lead_silver
CHANGE_COLOR: no
PHYSIO_DURING_EVENT: lethargy
PHYSIO_AFTER_EVENT: shock
OBSERVATION: aerial_path
WITNESS1_IDENTITY: WAYNE G. NIELSON
WITNESS1_PHONE: 320-587-2955
WITNESS1_EMAIL: wayner@hutchtel.net
WITNESS2_IDENTITY: BRUCE BEHM
***
1968 New York Mills, Minnesota sighting
In 1968, when I was 5 years old, my family (parents and 2 brothers)
lived in New York Mills, Minnesota in the central part of the state
on a farm 3 miles from town. At about 6:00pm one afternoon after
we returned home and got out of our car, we saw a craft slowly
descending to earth about 1/4 mile from our house. It glowed bright
orange, had the typical saucer shape, was probably 60-100 feet wide,
20-30 feet tall, and it made no sound as it flew. The orange glow
was phenomenal. I still remember the color to this day 33 years
later. About 200 feet from the ground, the craft stopped and
hovered above the hill for nearly 5 minutes. We stood there next
to our house and watched the craft and it was less than a 1/4 mile
away the whole time. We felt as though they were watching us the
entire time. After hovering for those 5 minutes the craft then
landed behind that hill in an area of woods and marsh. My dad
thought that it was landing there to charge up power because there
were power lines that ran along the woods there. After the craft
landed we all went in the house and spent the remainder of the
night before bed stairing out the window and my dad slept that
night with a loaded rifle on his bed.
My parents did not report the incident because they felt they
would think we were nuts. We still talk about the incident each
time we get together and I drive past the area each year to look
at the sight. Years later my parents started talking about the
incident with others around town after other people described
similar encounters. One woman stated that she woke up one night
in 1968 and looked out of her window and there was a similar type
craft sitting on the ground approximately 100 feet from her house.
There were other observations in the area as well around the same
period. Anyways, I just thought I would send you this data for posting in
case some other person made similar sightings in that area at that
time.
***
2/25/68 22:00
Ironwood, MI
Sphere
A small UFO we chased in a Piper Cherokee plane. Object led us in a circle then
passed below us. (NUFORC)
Occurred : 6/29/79 22:45
Location : st. paul, MN
Shape : Light
watched a yellow pt of light drop strt down, it stopped at roughly
45 deg l.o.s. to hor. it stopped, hovered a sec or two, then
apparently divided in 4 pcs, departed in 4 dir, 90 deg from each
other.
I was on the way home from work, and saw what i thought might be a
meteor. but it was the wrong color (yellow), and moving too slowly,
and in the wrong direction (straight down, as opposed to horizontally).
It was a little larger than the other stars, and bright yellow, it
was the movement and color that caught my eye. It dropped to a point
in front of me, and about 45 deg from the horizon, stopped, then
apparently divided into 4 sections (as it was just a point of light,
i say apparently), then each section made a bit of an s-curve away
from each other, and departed in 4 different directions, roughly 90
deg from each other. At the time i thought it interesting, and didn't
mention it to anyone. Could this be a ufo sighting? please resopnd
via e-mail.
****
Occurred : 6/12/1968 02:30 (Entered as : 06/12/1968 02:30)
Reported: 10/23/2003 1:06:05 PM 13:06
Posted: 10/31/2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
Shape: Circle
Duration:2 Minutes
Witnessed a silver and round with 2 back high fins UFO when I was 12
Once when I was 12, a friend and I were walking around this deserted lake when a
large object, the size of a bus but silver and round with 2 back high fins came almost
right over us. Freaked us both out. I looked at him then up again and the thing just
shot out into space. Very cool.
***
Occurred : 6/26/1968 13:00 (Entered as : 6/26/68 13:00)
Reported: 9/4/2003 12:10:50 PM 12:10
Posted: 9/4/2003
Location: Wyoming, MN
Shape: Disk
Duration:1min
I sent this in the other day tothe national reporting site as well....My brothers and I and
other friends have saw ufo's in the area over the years. What started it for me was in
1967 or 68 in june I saw a large disc tree top high at about 15 mph .It was about 250ft
around.and I could see the writing of some kind on the craft .I was in my dads yard
and the ufo flew just over the trees across the road -my dad was under his car and
didn't come uot to see it when I yelled look.So I went to see if anyone nextstore saw
it.Thay had there backs to it hanging cloyhs on the line... "However they saw me"
about 9/2/03 I saw on the history channel that the cattel mutalations started in about
1967.And they say that it is lasers that make those clean cuts. And back then there
was no laser or portable ones.
1967 in late june I was 8 year old-- this was after I saw the ufo--I was playing alone
in the woods just behind the house for a while. Then I came to the front of the yard
to see we had company--My dads sister and boys my age --they went to the
treehouse--so I to went to find them --I went up the tree into the the treehouse --5
minutes or so later I noticed my right leg felt funny --So I went back down to the
house to my bedroom and pulled down my long leg bluejeans --with no cut in them--
or no blood on them --I looked at my leg and I had a 6 inch long cut a inch and a
half deep--still not bleeding--and no pain --I went to show my mom to take me to
the doctor and have it sticked up--She said what happend --and I said I don't no--
But it is a laser cut made by that ufo I saw.
1968 in june agin--I was with one of my 3 brothers picking blackbarrys with the
family dog. This time we where accross the road from my dads house direcly
under the path of the ufo I saw the year befor. I said to my brother --I found more
barrys over here so we went deeper into the woods and never seemed to find the
barrrys --We thought we got lost--We got picked up by a ufo and they took us to
a place and dropped us off--We think-- WE saw pine trees with snow on the
branches ? --The next thing we no we found areselfs inside of a hourse fence a
mile from home.--there is no way we could have walked there without crossing
a tar road and 2 dirt roads. We did not cross any roads lost in the woods to get
there. Thats where they dropped us off. We new right what had just happend.
Also we don't remember when we lost the family dog. but the dog was at home.
1976 trapping season my same brother went to cheak our trap line in back of the
house--with a friend they dident go far--on a hay feild at dusc they heard a crashing
noise like branches braking--They stopped and saw a dark image of a small ufo
come right out of the forest and stop at the feild --then it started to glow and they
ran and got me and we all went back to the spot --we took a gun with --We dident
see anything at frst so we went farther back to a tree line dividing 2 feilds--At the
end of the next feild we could see a red object that flew in the night sky slowly over
the trees --the light would go out--and when it came back on it was forward and
down from where it was--and when the light went out agin and came back on it
was back and up from where it just was--and we could see the tree tops lighting
up under it --like it was taking picturs 1999 I was at my dads cabin in atkin MN
with my family of 3 and we slept in a camper in the yard that stay.after we left my
dad called me to say there was 3 dark rings in the grass in the most open part of
the yard.He said they where not there untill we stayed over the weekend.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
***
Sighting Date/Time: 7/15/1968, ~9pm to 9:30pm (dusk)
Sighting Location: 3 miles from New York Mills, MN
I sent in a UFO report about 6 weeks ago concerning a sighting
in 1968 in North Central Minnesota near the town of New York
Mills. Four persons in my family witnessed the UFO and I sent
in my recount. This week my family visited from Minnesota and
I now have the collective summary as follows:
* Witnesses = Father, Mother, Brother (age 12), Me (age 5)
* Length of Sighting = 15-20 minutes
* Date July 15, 1968
* Time of day = Dusk (i.e. around 9:00-9:30 or so. Sun set,
but sky still not yet dark)
Description of Event based on the collective opinions among
the 4 witnesses:
We were driving home at dusk. We lived on a farm in the country
approximately 3 miles from New York Mills Minnesota which is a
town of population 750 on North Central Minnesota. As we drove
toward home North down the gravel road we saw a blinding bright
light coming from a neighbors farm which was situated directly
in the road in front of us. As we approahed that home, we were
debating about what type of lights the neighbors could have in
their yard to cause the glow. It was lit up like a baseball
stadium lighting. The road turns North directly in front of
the neighbors house. My Brother and I were in the back seat and
we continued to watch the light as my mother and father looked
north as we rounded the corner. My brother and I noticed that
the light source was not coming from the neighbor's yard, but
instead was eminating from a source approximately 250 yards
behind the neighbors house. We drove approximately 300 yards
north and then turned west again. At that point all four of
us were stairing at the glowing orange object hovering silently
behind the neighbors house approximately 100 feet off the ground
above a swampy area at the crest of the hill. My brother, my
mother and I continued to stair at the object as my father turned
north into outr driveway and pulled up into our yard about 150
yards north. We all exited the car and watched the object for
some time. The object was glowing orange in color, saucer shaped,
between 30-50 feet tall, and between 60 and 100 feet wide. All
of us estimated that the object was very large and was bigger
than our house. An exact size estimate was difficult to make
because the object was hovering in a location approximately 1/4
mile from out house. In addition, because it was a bright glowing
orange color, the boundaries of the craft were difficult to make
out. At one point my Father and Brother said they could see the
boundary of the craft within the orange glow and they said it was
suacer shaped. The object hovered in one place and was completely
silent. It could not have been an airplane or helicopter. The
sky was completely clear although the sun was set and the sky was
blue gray. We stood outside in our driveway for a minute watching
before my parents brought us into the house. They were likely a
bit nervous at that point so we went in the house and ran to the
south side of the house to look out the window. The craft hovered
there for approximately 10 minutes. It then sank down as if it
was landing. The craft sank behind a hill out of view, but there
was still a glow that could be seen even though the craft could
not be seen. About a minute later it ascended again and hovered
for another 3 minutes. It then descended again. The area in
which it landed is very swampy so we hypothesized that the craft
moved to a more stable location. The craft landed in an area
where power lines run along the swamp so my dad guessed that the
craft was "charging it's power sources from the powerlines".
The total sighting time lasted 15 minutes.
Anyways, we sat and watched the area for some time, but did not
see it again. My parents chose not to call the police becuase
people would think we were "nuts". They also decided to stay in
the home that night rather than go back to town for the same
reason. My parents never reported the incident, but had heard
others make similar reports to the police around that time. A
man named (name withheld) called the police and reported a sighting
near Rush Lake which is a large lake located approximately 2
miles from where we lived. Another woman who lived 5 miles from
our house awoke one night to get a drink of water and witnesses
a similar craft landed in her back yard approxiately 250 feet
from her house. A couple years later, the preachers daughter and
2 others were driving down the road and their car died. They
could not restart the car and suddenly became aware of a craft
landed in the road ahead of where they were stopped. They were
petrified.
****
Occurred : 10/15/1968 02:00 (Entered as : 10/15/68 2:00 A.M)
Reported: 11/21/2000 09:24
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Hastings, MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:2 minutes
Perfect semi circle vapor trail left as soundless UFO makes a turn-around
overhead.
On a clear Fall nite away from city lights, we saw a triangular shaped object
approach us from the East traveling at a high rate of speed at about 11 oclock
from the horizon.When it was almost directly overhead at about 5000 ft.
(estimated), it stopped dead in its tracks.We could see that the bottom of the
object was silvery and kind of ossilated slowly from green to red to maroon
across this silvery "underbody" of the object...at the three points of the triangular
object where reddish orange lights that sometimes turned to a greenish color.
After sitting motionless and soundless for about a half a minute, it made a slow
180 degree turn leaving a vapor trail. After making the slow and perfect turn, the
object again sat motionless for a few seconds , and then took of straight and
level at an icredible speed "in a flash" it reached a point about 15 miles east of
us just above the horizon. Again the object stopped dead for about 10 seconds,
then when straight up at incredible speed until it went out of sight. After this had
all taken place, we noticed that the vapor trail was still disapating directly
overhead in the atmosphere where the object had made the 180 degree turn
around. This vapor trail seemed identical to that which you see when a high
altitute aircraft leaves a vapor trail. This trail widened, and distorted over a period
of about 3 minutes or so. Our observation was that the original vapor trail formed
an absolutely perfect 180 Degree semi circle.. No vapor trail was caused by the
craft when it was excelerating away from us or toward us... Only during the
perfect turn... During all of this there was never any sound coming from the
object.. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
***
New York Mills, Minnesota
July 1969, 8:00 PM
dur.: 25 Minutes
sky: Clear
Wit.: Father, Mother, older brother
Saucer, 100Ft X 30 Ft, Glowing Yellow Orange with Lights
Hovering 50-100 feet off ground
Brilliant Orange Yellow color with lights Hovered for 10 minutes.
Descened behind hill. Rose up again and hovered for 10 minutes.
Descended again and landed behind hill approximately 300 yards from
our house in rural Minnesota.
50-100 feet then landed
10 degrees
Landed behind hill Hovered, descended, ascended, hovered. No noise whatsoever.
West
Vehicle/solid object
Landing/Touchdown
Stationary
Change in motion
Within 500 feet of ground
Within 500 feet of witnesses
Continuous flight
It was 1969 and I was 5 years old. We lived in central Minnesota about 2
miles from New York Mills on a farm outside of town. It was mid-summer
and we (Mother (30), father (41), older brother (12), me (5), younger
brother (2)) were headed home from an event in town. We were headed
straight north down a dirt road which turned directly east next to our
neighbors house. When we were about 1 mile from our neighbors house we
noticed an extremely bright light from what appeared to be our neighbors
yard. The light was strikingly bright. As we drove for a minute toward
the neighbors house and the light we talked about why the neighbor would
install such a bright flood light in their yard because the entiore area
was lit up brightly.
As we approached the neighbors house and turned east
it became apparent that the light was coming from behind the neighbors
house. Our house was about 300 yards from the neighbors house down the
dirt road. As we reached a better angle we saw the object hovering above
the hill approximately 200 yards from our car. We continued and drove up
our driveway and exited our vehicle and watched the object hover there for
10 minutes before it slowly descended behind the hill. The object (UFO)
was silent, saucer shaped, was about 100 feet across X 30 feet high, glowed
bright yellow orange and had intense lights that could be seen through the
glowing orange color. When the object descended behind the hill, there was
a large glow that lit up the area (surrounding trees, etc...). We went in
the house and watched from our window that was facing west. After approx.
5 minutes, the UFO ascended and hovered again for another 10 minutes. It
then descended again after teh 10 minutes.
The area that the UFO landed was
a field next to a swampy area with trees and brush. There was a power line
that ran along side the field so my Dad always wondered if the UFO was
"repowering" from the electrical lines. We then all went to bed and my Dad
slept with a loaded rifle on his bed. It was a very intense experience that
I still remember today 34 years later. I find it kind of wierd that my
parents put us to bed and went to sleep themselves without calling anyone,
but I think they thought others would think they were crazy. My entire family
remembers the exereince vividly. I visit Minnesota every summer and we drive
by that place and talk about the experience. My parents saw a UFO again
about 8 years later when we lived in Illinois. They said it was different
shape and had lights that reminded them of a merry-go-round flying through
the sky. I personally have never seen another one, but have always wished
that I would.
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***
Occurred : 7/7/1969 23:00 (Entered as : 07/07/69 23:00)
Reported : 1/13/2001 20:07
Posted : 2/18/2001
Location : Brainerd, MN
Shape : Triangle
While picking up hay bales at night, I saw a triangular shaped object speed
through the night sky.
We had bales of hay to pick up on the ground, my father and I, and it was suppose
to rain the following day so we went out at night with a tractor and wagon to pick them
up. While there on a cloudless night a triangular shaped object sped across the sky from
horizon to horizon at incredible speed. There was no sonic boom, no vapor trail we
could see; no noise at all. We couldn't see the object itself, only three bright lights of
different colors, maybe green and blue, which defined the shape as a very large triangle.
There had been reports of an expected meteor shower that night, and at first we
wondered if that is what we were seeing. But it flew to low to be meteors and there was
no streaking affect like you usually see with those. Also, the color of the lights didn't change.
We were speechless for we knew we had witnessed something highly unusual. For
many years we talked about it. My father died in 1995. He had been in the military and
was quite knowledgeable about planes. He was absolutely sure it was no terrestial aircraft,
partly because of the color pattern he was. I am not quite sure of the year. It might
have been a year or two sooner. I know I wasn't in high school yet. But I wanted to leave
a record of this on file so at least someone would know it happened. The most important
aspect of the sighting was the speed and size of the object. As far as I know, nothing
can fly this fast through the atmospere without burning up. That's what I remember the
most. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
***
Occurred : 8/1/1969 22:00 (Entered as : 08/01/69 22:00)
Reported: 12/7/2002 2:27:45 PM 14:27
Posted: 12/23/2002
Location: Minnetonka, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:less than one minute
Large bright white light hovering in minnetonka, mn, summer, 1969
late evening I was walking to friends house three doors away to the east. It was very
dark, while walking along I noticed that there were strong shadows from the pine trees
growing north east of me. I looked to see a very large round bright object or light. It
appeared to be stationary and hovering in the air no more than 300 meters away. I
know it was close becuase it was positioned between myself and a new water tower
under construction across a small valley from my location. It was on a heading to the
north east of me at less than a 30 degree angle up. There was no noise at all but it was
very oviously not any noral aircraft due to lack of noise and closeness to the ground
no more than 100 ft or so. I ran to get my friend about whose house was fifty yards
away but lost sight of object when I went to door. WHen we came back out it was gone.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
***Subject: 1970's sighting
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:35:33 +0200
Hi! Some time between 1971 and 1973 I had a strange experience of the ufo kind while
a student at Gustavus Adolphus College. I wish I would have kept the date in memory
but I didn't. I do know that others saw it too as it was in the newspaper. I was walking
with a date in the area where there was at that time a grove of pine trees behind the
football field. It was evening when all of a sudden we saw a strange light like I had never
seen before and a strange sound. It was sauncer shaped and it appeared to have a
door open. I wanted to go towards it but was too scared. Then the door closed and the
saucer lifted up into the air, hovered then took off at a great speed. So what did we see?
I now live in Finland.
***
UFO Report 7/19/71
My name is Dale Stonehouse, born 8/13/53 in Princeton,
Minnesota, male, with a lifelong interest in what is "out there" and a desire
to get there. On July 19, 1971, a Monday, I and two friends, Mark Jerve and
Terry Enger, left our home town, Big Lake, MN for an overnight fishing/camping
trip on Lake Alice, west of Walker, MN in north central MN. We had an
uneventful trip and packed up the following evening, July 20, 1971, for the
trip home. As we were packing we could see very large storm clouds forming
above the treeline to the south. For the first 50 miles of our return trip
we began to approach the storm. We reached Brainerd, MN and made a gas stop.
As we left Brainerd our adventure began. Minnesota highway 371 is a two-lane
road which connects Walker and Little Falls 85 miles to the south. Brainerd
is the only major town in between. When we left the city limits we were moving
into a major electrical storm and as a result Mark, driving a yellow-orange
Chevy pickup, was driving slowly. The lightning interference on the AM radio
was intense. Less than a mile out of town we saw some bright light up ahead,
and I made the observation that there was a house on fire up ahead and wondered
aloud if we might have to stop and help out. As we approached, not only did it
take quite a long time to get there, but there appeared to be flares from the
fire billowing up and out, circling down and back into the fire. This was
puzzling but the human mind tries to make sense of anything it perceives. When
we finally reached the "fire," there was no house and no fire. At a major curve
in the road we observed two orange balls of light on our left (the "fire" had
been on the right side), about 20-30 feet above on the driver's side. We could
not see any solid object or craft associated with the lights. As we turned on
the curve the lights crossed in front of us to the right side, where I was riding
next to the passenger door. I was terrified but fascinated as they began to pace
our speed not more than 20 feet away between the trees and the road. Not long
after their appearance, we noticed that instead of intermittent radio interference
from lightning, we now had steady radio static. And any doubt as to whether we
were the only 3 people to see them evaporated when the vehicle behind us
accelerated to at least 90 mph to pass us. The driver did this despite the fact
that visibility was poor and rain was falling heavily. For the next 45 minutes
as we drove the 35 miles from Brainerd to Little Falls, the orange balls continued
to pace us.
Some highlights:
1. Not long after they appeared Mark suggested we stop and see what they were.
Terry and I were too afraid to allow him to do so.
2. Mark then began experimenting, speeding up and slowing down to see what they
would do. They continued to stay next to us, except for one foray behind the trees
which was very short.
3. When we reached the 2 small towns along this stretch, the orange balls seemed
to go around rather than through the towns. Just when we thought they were gone they
came right back.
4. When we reached Little Falls we were relieved that the orange balls did not
follow us into town but by that time we did not expect that they would. And after
stopping for a snack, when we left Little Falls they were no longer with us.
5. Our human minds tried to imagine that they were some sort of weather balloon or
perhaps a military test but it seemed strange to be testing in such difficult weather.
6. Throughout this encounter I tried to see any sign of a solid craft associated with
these orange balls of light. I could see none. And unfortunately, my camera was in the
bed of the pickup, not within reach.
7. Due to my experience in my second report, my most likely explanation for the
phenomenon would have been "ball lightning." But nowhere in any research I did was
it suggested that ball lightning could last for 45 minutes of nearly uninterrupted
observation. This experience has been a source of fascination to everyone we relate
it to, even after 25 years. Around a campfire we have gotten requests to tell this
tale again, even by people who have heard it several times before!
***
Date: April 20-21, 1971
Location: Ashland and Ironwood, WI
Source: Ashland, WI Press, April 23, 1971
Strange lights have been sighted in the sky in both the Ashland
and Ironwood areas, according to reports from both the Ashland
and Ironwood Police Departments. Ironwood police officer officers
reported aerial sights at 11:45 p.m. (EST) Tuesday and again at
2:45 a.m. (EST) Wednesday. A report at the Ashland department noted
moving lights in the sky at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday approximately the
same time the Ironwood department reported the objects. The report
said at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, an Ashland officer saw double and single
lights in the Northeast. The officers said the lights appeared to
change positions about six times and then went out. Chief of Police
Donald Tolliver said similar objects have been sighted regularly by
his men since January. One officer said that the lights are usually
in the north or northeast and often in formation and the speed was
"fantastic". The lights assumed a recognizable shape for Veikko Jarvi,
a Saxonarea dam keeper. He saw them around the second sighting at 2:47
a.m. he said they were half moon size, like a disk with windows.
UFOSSI
***
Occurred : 7/15/1972 17:00 (Entered as : 07/15/72 17:00)
Reported: 12/26/1999 22:55
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Morton (9 miles north of), MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:5 minutes
A triangular craft w/3 lg orange lights silently flew overhead going
west to east. It then sped up and away.
My brother and I were changing a shifter in his car when our dog
started going nuts. The dog ran up and down the driveway barking
wildly, as he did only when someone was coming up the driveway. I
ran out (we had the car parked over the old cellar steps) to see
who was coming up the driveway, and saw that the dog was looking up.
I looked up to see what he (the dog) was barking at and saw this
grey triangular outline with orange lights against the clouds. The
triangle was moving slowly going west to east. It had glowing orange
lights in each angle of the triangle. I measured the size by holding
my arm out and judging the lights to be about the size of a large pea
at an arms length (that would be one of the three lights). The object
was perfectly silent. On the farm at 5:00 in the middle of summer it
is pretty quiet. There was no wind at all. It was very still and
perfectly quiet. Absolutely no sound came from the object. It moved
at what seemed to be a very slow steady speed as it went directly
overhead, with the dog going nuts the whole time. I called to my
brother to get out there to see it but he was putting something
together on the shifter and didn't come right away. As the object
passed over our farm and went over the feild. it began to speed up
and raise in altitude. This change was very obvious, even to me. It
really sped up and it cruised up right off into the clouds. At about
this time, my brother came out and asked what I wanted. I said "man
you missed it". The dog ran out into the feild and went probably about
1/2 mile before he gave up and came back. Just directly West of our
driveway was our neighbors runway. He was a crop duster and when he
landed, he flew at pretty low altitude right over our house. Our dog
was very used to that and could care less when it happened. This was
very different. This is absolutely true. I have never reported this
to anyone other than close freinds.
***
St.cloud, MN UFO
Sighting Date/Time: summer of 72
Sighting Location: On my dads farm
Sighting Description: Hello every one, my experience happened directly
after supper 6(pm) on a clear day. I walked out of the garage side of
the house,looking down between the sheds where I saw an orange ball
approximently 6 ft. in diamenter hoovering 5 ft.off the ground. I was
the only one that saw it,when I yelled for my brother who had an
obstucted view,It took off just about strait up at a very high speed.
I could not believe what I saw because it was something that did not
appear real. Never seen anything like it since. This happened in
summer of 72, I found this web page and looked for similar storys and
there was one in that year north of little falls, I guess I was not
the only one.
***
9/27/72 Albany, MN report
On Sept. 27, 1972 my uncle and I were driving back from Albany,
MN to the farm where I lived when this happened. When we got
home, mom asked my uncle and I if we would go out to the other
side of the farm to untangle her horses. It was 7:00pm when
we went out there and 9:30pm when we got back. My mom said
she was getting ready to come out there to see what was wrong
because we were taking so long. So this is what happened:
When my uncle and I went out there he started to untangle the
horses. I was watching him because I was only 5 years old.
I looked up at the horizon and I saw this object drift over
the trees over my great uncles pasture which is a quarter of
a mile away from my grandpas. The object was cigar shaped
and dark in appearance with round red and blue lights circling
the craft in sequence like those chaser christmas lights.
The object was watching us because it stopped and hovered
and went backwards then in three seconds this craft flew
towards us at incredible speed and hovered over our heads at
no more 15 feet above us. I could not hear any sound; I just
stood there in fright. I just kept looking up and watching
the lights go around the craft. I am guessing that it was
about 50 feet in diameter. Then my uncle said to run back
to the house. As we ran back I looked back to see if it was
following us. It rose up over my grandpa's barn, then down
again over the pasture and slowly went north behind the trees
on the other side of the farm. It came from the south west
and went north.when we got in the house I was so scared that
I was in a panic and stuttering till I calmed down. To this
day I think my uncle and I have been abducted because we have
almost 2 hours of time that we don't recall, and I remember
some parts, like laying down in this room with these gray
alien-looking creatures with huge eyes looking at me and
one tall white alien with a white coat on like what a doctor
wears. This was my first sighting. I have had other sightings
also.
***
Date: 1973
Location: Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 5/10/2004
Sighting Time: 10:20 PM
Day/Night: Nighttime
Duration: Approx. 96 minutes
No. of Witnesses: Approx. 30
Urban or Rural: Suburban/Rural
No. of Object(s): Single
Summary:
First spotted at high altitude. Positioned car headlights towards craft which then
approached us and hovered approximately 100 feet directly above. Lost time.
Full Description & Details
At 10:20 to 10:25 pm, myself and two friends had just parked my car in a large field
beside lake Elmagnet which borders Burnsville and Apple Valley Minnesota. We had
just sat down on the hood of the car as I noticed bright multi-colored lights blinking at
an unusually fast rate. The lights were also colored every visible color of the light
spectrum which at once seemed strange to me and sparked my curiosity. I continued
to watch the object and after about 10 to 15 seconds, the object moved across a
considerable distance so fast that I did not see it actually move but saw only a red
trail such as one would see by moving a lite cigarette in the dark as fast as possible.
This caused me to comment, (what the He_ _ ?) My two friends asked what was
the matter, and did I see a flying saucer or something? I didn't know if I was seeing
things right or if my mind had just played a trick on me or what so, I asked them to
just do me a favor and watch those fast blinking lights in the sky. They obliged and
watched the lights which repeated the manuvers I had first witnessed alone. They
immediately became very excited and believed without a shadow of a doubt that
this was in fact a UFO of some kind. I still didn't want to say what it was until I
could see it up close and suggested that it might possibly be some sort of military
test vehicle. I hopped into my car and moved it so that it was sitting on the incline
of a small hill or mound in the field so that the cars headlights were aimed as
directly towards the object as possible. I then began to flash the headlights on
and off and from bright to dim and in an iratic fashion very quickley to try to draw
the attention of anyone in the craft. At the time of the sighting the area was mostly
farm land and undeveloped. The only other light was from a full moon or nearly
full so my cars headlights were likely easy to spot from whomever might be
flying the craft. The plan worked and while I was still flashing my lights, we
noticed that the blinking lights on the craft had disappeared and were replaced
by a single bright white light which grew bigger and brighter by the passing
seconds. Then we realized why the light was getting bigger and brighter it was
headed straight towards us. The moon was directly in back of the craft during
its last mile or so before reaching our position and hovering directly over our
heads. As we watched the craft, we could see that it was shiny and silver
metalic in appearence and that there seems to be different diameter layers
making up the craft. I remember thinking that it looked just like the saucer on
the TV series (The Invaders). One of my friends went into a panic and became
so frightened that he wet himself. The other friend was exstatic at what he
was witnessing and began yelling to them to come on down. I was embaraced
to be with either of them and thought that if they were wondering if they would
find intelligent life on this planet that they would certainly have been disapointed
at seeing such creatures. The one who had wet himself was trying frantically
to hide himself behind the seat in my car and screaming like a woman that we
were all going to die. I looked down for a moment at my friend in the car and
tried to calm him down and when I looked up again, the craft was gone. I asked
the other friend where the craft went and he pointed in a direction further into
Burnsville. We continued to watch for what seemed like several minutes and
finally we saw the craft rise up above the trees in the distance over the heart
of Burnsville where it hovered for about 10 seconds or so. As we watched, the
saucer/craft pointed what appeared to be a bright red lazer beam at an approx.
45 degree angle out into space, moved the lazer slightly and then shot out into
space at such a rate of speed that we could not actually see the craft move but,
saw only a red blur or trail in the direction that it traveled which was in the
exact direction that the lazer beam had been pointing. After all these events
had taken place I looked at my watch and it said 11:56 pm. The two friends
that were with me reportedly witnessed a huge comet or meteor or something
within minutes of seeing the saucer leave the atmosphere. I did not see the
comet/meteor because I was busy starting up my car and looking down at the
time. Something I feel is worth mentioning is, that within days or weeks
following the sighting of the saucer, I came up with an idea of how to build a
free energy device of which I wound up presenting to the MN state energy
commissioner in person in the summer of 1979. The very next day two armed
military police were waiting for me as I reported for work that morning and told
me to drop the whole thing and that if I ever spoke a word of any of it to anyone
that they would make sure no-one ever found even my bones. I was never able
to contact that particular energy commissioner again as it appeared that he
had been replaced by a woman I had never seen or heard of. I know how this
sounds but I have many witnesses to everything I have stated in this description
and this is only a small part of the story so that others might have something
to relate to. I do not believe I am the first to experience any of these situations
and niether will I be the last.
Personal Background
DoD comuter technical operations, information specialist, publications.
Classification: Top Secret
***
ABSTRACT: Two F-4 Phantoms chased it!!!
MONTH: 10
DAY: 00
YEAR: 1973
HOUR: 17:00
DURATION: 11-30_minutes
STATE_PROVINCE: MN
COUNTY: Hennepin
NEAR_TOWN_OR_CITY: Bloomington
SITE: suburb
SKY: partly_cloudy
CLOUD_COVER: over_5000_feet
NUMBER_OBSERVED: 1
ELEVATION: 25-30_degrees
LOWEST_ALTITUDE: over_500_feet
DISTANCE: over_1_mile
FLIGHT: path_with_direction_change
DIRECT_FIRST_OBSVED: NW
DIRECT_LAST_OBSVED: SW
SHAPE: oval_or_ellipse
SURFACE: reflective
CHANGE_COLOR: no
EMISSION: trail
VEHICLE: accelerated
SURROUNDINGS: normal_sound_absent
SPECIES: bird
REACTION_TYPE: curiosity
PSYCH_DURING_EVENT: calmness, fear, phobia
PSYCH_AFTER_EVENT: helplessness, dreams
PHYSIO_AFTER_EVENT: lethargy, appetite_loss, fatigue,
sleep_disorder
RADAR_TRACK: maneuvered, moved_in_formation,
disappeared_gradually
Getting a driving lesson in my brother's car on a dirt road N.
of subdivision in Bloomington, MN, ForestHaven suburb division.
We stopped to look West to see the sunset. Lense/ovalshaped clouds
on horizon 50 miles away, sun a 1/4 visible due to the hills a
1/2mi away. Seeing light cumulus and standing lenticular clouds,
one of the clouds started moving. Before or after, a large bird
almost condor size, launched from the woods in front of us and
flew West. It looked like a large bat with a beek, we heard it's
wings flap. We were calm and standing.
Two F4 Phantoms, full after burners with the sonic booms from
E. to W. flew directly overhead, 1000 feet, markings and details
easily visible, and they split to intercept. Moments after the
F4s passed our position, the object was already moving N. to S.
i.e. right to left within our view and then West. It appeared to
have a distrail behind it and left our view due to hills, F4s
also. We stood motionless and emotionless for several minutes..
I didn't know what to do, but wanted to continue to observe the
rest of the sunset. My brother started his car and said 'let's
get out of here!! We left arrived home late for dinner. Was
this an incursion of DEWline? A Soviet TU-144? I was a student
pilot flying clubwise though couldn't solo 'til age 16. Bro was
a mechanical tech at paper factory. Before after this incident,
have had recurring thoughts of what I thought was a childhood
dream when I was 4-5, 1964-5, this above incident happened in
1973. I will now re-submit my thoughts/experiences from what I
believe happened then, in another MUFON/form now.
***
Occurred : 10/1/1973 20:30 (Entered as : 10/01/73 20:30)
Reported: 7/29/2002
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: North St. Paul, MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:Two minutes
Large triangular space craft sighted above North Senior High School' football field, in
North St. Paul, MN in early October 1, 1973
My girlfriend and I were driving on the local highway that runs through the middle of our
town, North St. Paul, MN, and were just coming near the high school's football field. Very
obvious in the sky, just hovering over the football field was a large triangular spacecraft,
at least as big as the field. It did not make any obvious sounds, but we were in a car on
the highway, so that presents noise of its own. However, above that normal highway
noise, there was nothing unusual. There were lights on each of the triangle tips. We
stared in awe as we continued on the highway. Though I wanted to go to my house for
a camera to take a photo, my friend was afraid to return to the spot. We did go to a
nearby corner store and called police to report it. No one took us seriously at either the
store or the police. We did not return to that location again that night. There were no
reports in the paper about the sighting, though it seems apparent that others must have
seen it also. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. One of two credible reports from
same source. PD))
***
Sighting Date/Time: October 1973, mid month weekend
Sighting Location: Conver Ave., South St. Paul, MN.
This report is the same as witnessed Charles Berlitz's Bermuda
Triangle page 100. I don't have book publisher nor date.
(Sometime pre 1978)
Sighting Description: It was one of the middle weekends
(Saturday) in October 1973. The time was well after dusk but
before midnight. My mother and I stood on 1921 Conver Avenue
facing West. My Aunt, Uncle, and their two children were
seated in their car facing East. Conver Ave is on a hill and
the hill rises towards the west. My aunt and uncle were
preparing to leave and had just dropped my mother off from a
trip from Lincoln, Nebr. We were chatting. I was looking at
the sky in the Western direction. From the Southern sky
(while I was facing west) a red glow moved at what seem a fast
speed considering it's altitude which I estimate 1000 feet
above ground level. Initially the red glow permeated through
clouds. I thought maybe an aircraft was on fire and trying
to make Holman field in St. Paul. The red glow never deviated
from course flying due North. I estimate the angle from 1921
Conver to the red object to be approx 45 degrees. I estimate
the altitude to be 1000 feet. I am a private pilot and was
taking flying lessons at the time.
My mother saw the object but now discounts it. I've looked
diligently for newspaper clipping in the Historical Society
for other recounts of the siting in October 1973 but have
only found the many sitting which took place in Mississippi.
Ironically in the last year I came upon a UFO book at Barns
and Nobles. I looked at the year 1973 and a few Mississippi
sitings had pictures of the object I had seen.
***
Sighting Date/Time: Oct. '73, sunset
Sighting Location: North of the then Forest Haven subdivision,
Bloomington, MN on a dirt road N. of the Mt Normandale Dr.
homes west of Normandale Blvd. The dirt road there ran
approximately east to west in the field area North of the
homes located off Mt. Normandale Dr. Dirt road connected with
the then dirt road to the Highland Hills Ski area.
Sighting Description: At age 13, my 19yr old brother was giving
me some driving instruction in his car. I at the time had
previously taken pilot training in the flying club and new my
aircraft. We stopped the car to observe the sunset, 1/4 to 1/2
visible sun. Light cumulus and standing lenticular clouds visible
to the west.We observe at about 25-35 degrees up one of the
lenticular, lens shaped clouds moving.. Silver, reflecting the
sun, holding my arm straight out the oval cylindrical shaped
object would have a length of about 1 1/2 to 2inches long. If
an airplane, airliner size, it would've been 50 miles away at
most, more like 30 miles. It went from moving east to northeast
to movingsowthwest, then west. During the incident a large black
condor size bird, though it looked more bat like with pointed
beek, launched from the trees just west of us and flew west.
We heard it's wings, conditions calm. As the object turned to
the sothwest from it's northeasterly heading, two F4 Phantom
jets with full afterburners flew directly overhead at 1000' or
so including sonic booms. Just after passing our position, they
split into the standard interception position, heading west
towards the object.the object had a slight distrail behind it
and was accelerating to the west as the 2 military jets moved
to intercept.Jets were camo paint, with stars and bars insignia
but were going too fast to determine svc branch and numbers.
Both jets and the object left our view due to the terrain/hills
west of us. Note that the other lens shaped clouds stood still
as would be the case with the aforementioned cloud formation.
We stood there, amazed, I wanted to stay for a while longer
and observe but my brother was so startled he just wanted to
get out of there!! I can attempt to draw the area, or if I get
to MN, show the area though there's more houses there now.
Call to leave a message, e-mail or send info in mailing address.
Other things happened in that area in the '60s I'd be interested
in hearing from other's experiences during that time!
***
MUFON Initial UFO Report
Sighting Date/Time: October 1973, mid month weekend
Sighting Location: Siting occured at 1921 Conver Ave., South
St. Paul, MN.
This report is the same as witnessed Charles Berlitz's Bermuda
Triangle page 100. I don't have book publisher nor date.
(Sometime pre 1978)
Sighting Description: It was one of the middle weekends
(Saturday) in October 1973. The time was well after dusk but
before midnight. My mother and I stood on 1921 Conver Avenue
facing West. My Aunt, Uncle, and their two children were
seated in their car facing East. Conver Ave is on a hill and
the hill rises towards the west. My aunt and uncle were
preparing to leave and had just dropped my mother off from a
trip from Lincoln, Nebr. We were chatting. I was looking at
the sky in the Western direction. From the Southern sky
(while I was facing west) a red glow moved at what seem a fast
speed considering it's altitude which I estimate 1000 feet
above ground level. Initially the red glow permeated through
clouds. I thought maybe an aircraft was on fire and trying
to make Holman field in St. Paul. The red glow never deviated
from course flying due North. I estimate the angle from 1921
Conver to the red object to be approx 45 degrees. I estimate
the altitude to be 1000 feet. I am a private pilot and was
taking flying lessons at the time.
My mother saw the object but now discounts it. I've looked
diligently for newspaper clipping in the Historical Society
for other recounts of the siting in October 1973 but have
only found the many sitting which took place in Mississippi.
Ironically in the last year I came upon a UFO book at Barns
and Nobles. I looked at the year 1973 and a few Mississippi
sitings had pictures of the object I had seen.
***
Transcript of a talk by Sandy Bartsh - Belle Fourche, SD, 1974
This happened about 20 years ago, around 1974, I must have been 18 or
19. Our family had land 12 miles south of Alzada, Montana towards Hulett,
Wyoming. (This is about 20 miles from the South Dakota border.) My dad was
raised in a little cabin out there, it was the original homestead. The cabin
is very small with one door and one window. I used to go there when I was a
little girl and play house.
The cabin is positioned on the edge of a ravine that is filled with
trees. One day a friend, Kenny, and I drove out there to look at Indian
caves near the cabin, we just wanted to explore around. Towards evening we
heard a “clatter - bang - bang,” like pots and pans being hit together. At
that time we were up on the plateau east of the cabin. We could see the
cabin, it was a couple of miles away and the banging was coming from that
direction. Dusk was coming and I thought it was my mom trying to get our
attention by banging on something.
When we finally got down to the cabin, it was getting dark and we didn
’t see anyone there. My car was parked behind the cabin. We saw lights
flashing on the other side of the ravine. We decided to go through the trees
in the ravine where it wasn’t deep to get to the other side where the lights
were. When we started going down through the trees, we saw what looked like
a set of drums, the kind of drums you play, they were made of shiny stuff.
Now we’re out in the middle of nowhere, we’re looking at these drums and
then we see sandbags or bodies, I really don’t know what they were, all
lined up by these drums. We’re out in the middle of nowhere and we know this
stuff shouldn’t be there. I had the fleeting thought of a drug deal going
on, I don’t know why. Perhaps because of the things that looked like body
bags. We both decided to get out of there so we ran back to get in the car
to leave. In the car there were these big eyes, like the ones on Communion,
just floating around. They were big, tear-shaped, and they were gold, like
animal eyes in the night. Big and shiny. They were moving around in my car.
We were both really scared by now and decided that the only way to get out
of there was to run towards the old house which was 2 miles away. We took
off running and when we got to a hay stack that was in the direction we were
going, we saw this big, I call it a monkey spider, I don’t know what it was.
(Sandy described it as being about 3 ½ foot tall and about 2 ½ foot wide
with 6 legs.) It was jumping up and down, on and off the haystack, back and
forth. We were scared, we were yelling, what is this thing? We ran back to
the cabin and shut ourselves in. It was hot, the cabin is real small, it was
sometime during the summer, maybe July or August.
We looked out the window towards where the lights were, across the
ravine, they were blinking off and on. We looked out the window and out the
door and we could see this furry thing, it was crouched right underneath the
edge of the cabin window. We didn’t know what to do, we were in the cabin, I
don’t know how long.
Then we saw these little guys in white coveralls. They were 3 to 4 feet tall
with white coveralls on and they started coming down the edge of the ravine,
from the directions of the lights on the other side of the ravine. Coming
single file, marching, down through the deep part of the ravine, through the
trees, the grass was maybe 2 foot tall. These little guys in the white suits
marched up the side of the ravine towards us and got to the edge of the
trees, a couple of them got down and crawled closer to the cabin. We were
looking out the window at them. Finally I decided if they were going to get
us, they would have already done so. I wanted to know what they were. So we
went outside, nobody attacked us, so we tried to get closer.
Down in the trees we saw eyes like the ones in the car, they were
moving around down in the trees, all you could see were the eyes. The little
guys in the white coveralls were still there and I wanted the courage to get
closer to them. All this time you could still hear the “clatter - bang -
bang.”
I thought it was a broken down space ship or something. You could see
the shiny metal through the trees, it looked like a puzzle, it was put
together like this. (Sandy showed her hands at different angles, like a
three dimensional puzzle) I wanted to know what was over there and what all
these creatures were. I decided to go up to these little guys in the white
coveralls. I could only get so close to them and they would back up. I tried
to talk to them but they wouldn’t say anything. I’d back up and they’d come
closer, I’d get closer and they’d back up. I was loosing my nerve, I thought
that if I followed them down in to the ravine, I might be able to see what
they were doing. Then I thought that maybe they don’t want me to see what
they’re doing, if I don’t see what they’re doing they’ll leave me alone. So
I decided to forget it, I didn’t want to see that bad.
This lasted through the whole night. All during this time there were
little trains, at least that’s what I call them, I don’t know what they
really were, swishing around us above the ground. (Sandy described them as
about 1 ½ feet by 2 feet) All of a sudden they would come by us with a
whoosh, they had little flashing lights on them that would flicker on and
off, with no definite pattern, just blink-blink, blink-blink-blink. They’d
swoosh by you, it looked like they were traveling on air. I really don’t
know what they were doing.
This took place all night long, we would spend time in and out of the
cabin, we wanted to leave but that monkey spider thing was bouncing around
out there so we’d loose our nerve every time. We would stay in the cabin for
awhile and then we’d get hot so we would go outside. We thought about going
into the ravine but then we would remember those dead bodies or what ever
they were in the ravine and we’d loose our nerve.
Sometime during the night, way off into the distance down a valley, we
saw what first looked like a bright star. We saw a light coming out of it
every once in awhile, I don’t know how many times it did this. The bright
light would come closer, then it would shine down a light and another light
would go up into it, like it was sucking up a light. I know this sounds so
strange but that’s what happened.
Farther into the night, we saw red lights flashing on the side of the
bright light. The closer it got, the more distinctly we could see the bright
white light with the flashing red lights on it, every once in a while it
would flash down a beam of light and another light would go up the beam.
Somehow I got the impression that there were space ships down the way, that
they had been dropped off and that someone was coming back and sucking them
up before daylight.
By morning, when the light was coming up, we were really, really
tired, we had been going on adrenaline all night. At one point we went into
the cabin and heard a whoosh noise, ran back out and everything was gone.
There was a light associated with this whoosh.
After the sun came up enough that we could see, we went out and looked
around the cabin and found areas of flattened grass. I know the grass had
been undisturbed when we arrived there, you could see where things had moved
through the grass and there was an area of flattened grass on the other side
of the ravine where the craft or whatever had been. The grass was trampled
all around the cabin.
(The aliens in coveralls had walked normally. They were about 4 feet tall,
Sandy could not see a face shape or eyes on the beings in the overalls.
The monkey spider had frightened Sandy at first but then it became almost
comical to her. Sandy got within 15 feet of the beings in the coveralls.
The beings in the coveralls would always stay close to or in the trees.
Sandy described the beings in the coveralls as being like an army, they came
down in single file, she guesses that there were at least 20 or more of
these beings. She could hear and see them moving around down in the ravine
during the night. Sandy cannot remember the color of the trains.
No burn marks on the ground, no apparent physical marks or changes to Sandy
or Kenny. Sandy does not feel that she has any missing time.
Everything that Sandy remembers is through conscious recall.
Later upon coming back to Belle Fourche, she told her friends about this
incident but they did not believe her.
It took over 2 months of extensive searching before I found her friend,
Kenny, in Texas. He collaborated her story and added a few details of his
own. He said the object across the ravine that was banging and clanging
reminded him of an old threshing machine. He remembered more than one monkey
spider and thought they were wearing some sort of clothing. He said he
thinks back to this time often but refuses to go public with his name or
make further statements because of his upper management position with a
large, well-known corporation. He and Sandy have communicated only once
since this occurrence, they spoke to each other by phone 4 months after I
started this investigation. Sandy is now a mining engineer at a large gold
mine in the Black Hills.)
****
UFO Sighting Report
Date: 1974
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 5/23/2004
Sighting Time: 6:00pm
Day/Night: Dusk/Evening
Duration: 10 minutes
No. of Witnesses: 7
Urban or Rural: urban
No. of Object(s): Single
Size of Object(s): full moon size
Distance to Object(s): 20,000
Shape of Object(s): imperfect oval
Color of Object(s): orange-bright white
Summary
My entire family watched a UFO seemingly intelligently make it's way slowly
over the HWY and over our South Minneapolis home.
Full Description & Details
My childhood home was situated facing a chain link fence that bordered the HWY
35 W north , just south of the Diamond Lake Road exit. We had two largish windows
facing the HWY. At dusk one evening as the family was gathered in the livingroom,
my mother noticed something out of the window that scared her more then I had
ever seen fear in her either before the incident , or since. When we all went over to
the windows to see for ourselves what it was , this is what we saw. It looked like
the moon and took up about the same amount in the sky , but the light from it was
different than that of the moon. It was an ultra bright , orangish, white light that was
slightly obscurred by clouds. It did not have a perfect oval , disc , or round shape
to it. It traveled quite slow , maybe 15 mph , but very hard to determine exactly of
course. It is impossible for me to know how high up it was because at the time of
the sighting I was about 4 or 5 years of age. Everything in the sky seemed like a
million miles away to me. As this was one of my first memories that has stuck
with me due to my mothers reaction to seeing this thing, I still believe my perception
is a valid one.
From what I recall it came from the north west and veered due east which took this
craft over the HWY and directly over our home. As it floated over our house, the
power went out and watches stopped and a great feeling of a sort of "vacuum" or
energy of some kind was in the air. Once this thing cleared our roof and floated
beyond our backyard , we lost sight of it. Immediately after the disappearance of the
craft , our power was restored. We watched this thing in all for about 10 or so
minutes. It was most eerie and there was a strange feeling in the air. I know what
our family saw was not man made by any stretch of the imagination, therefore
that confirms ( to me anyway) that I am not in my assessment, stretching mine.
Personal Background
I work for the corporate office of a General Motors company. I have had a few
other paranormal or unexplained experiences in my life time. I believe in life on
other planets, ghosts, aliens and otherwordly and other dimensional creatures.
***
Occurred : 6/20/1974 16:00 (Entered as : 06/20/2074 16:00)
Reported: 11/1/2003 12:02:33 AM 00:02
Posted: 11/8/2003
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:2 to 3 minutes
It was a beautiful summer day and me and my close friend were walking my girlfriend
home from school we were about 15 years old at the time, we got there and hung
around her house and talked about what we would do this summer, her parents were
not home from work yet,then we decided to go outside and smoke a cigarette,and
we layed out on her lawn and i distinctley remember what a beautiful clear day it was.
She lived in an older type house and all of the streets had big oak trees next to the
sidewalk, well I told my girlfriend that we had to get going home so we all stood up
and were making small talk next to one of the big oak trees facing her house and i
remember looking up and this big glowing light was just pulsating at what seemed to
be about tree top level we all asked each other do you see what i see and as we were
looking at this thing glowing or pulsating it just wisked up in to the clear blue sky and
disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: The date is approximate. We presume that the year
of the sighting was 1974, and we have amended the date above, even though that is
a guess. PD))
***
Occurred : 7/15/1974 13:00 (Entered as : 7/15/74 13:00)
Reported: 5/11/2003 3:34:44 AM 03:34
Posted: 5/13/2003
Location: Vining, MN
Shape: Other
Duration:5 minutes
The date is approximate as it was long ago, but I'll never forget. I was about 12
years old riding a minibike on a gravel road when an object caught my eye moving
in the sky. This is a rural area, so there are not too many aircraft to be seen. The
object I saw was a tapered curved cylindrical object with a sphere on the narrow
end. The object appeared to be metallic. I immediately stopped the minike and
shut off the engine to observe the craft move to the west in a slow but steady
manner and without making a sound. The distance and size of the object were
hard to determine, but I'd guess it was at 3 to 5 thousand feet and approximately
50 feet long. I immediately rushed home approx a quarter mile and tried to locate
the object with a telescope but it already disappeared. (NUFORC Note: Date is
approximate. PD))
***
Occurred : 7/21/1974 22:30 (Entered as : 07/21/1974 22:30)
Reported: 10/18/2003 3:49:08 AM 03:49
Posted: 10/31/2003
Location: Apple Valley/Burnsville, MN
Shape: Disk
Duration:Unknown
My background is with the Department of Defense Special Technical Operations.
I do not wish to mention which company or location for obvious reasons but all
information can be verified by numerous witnesses that my statements are true
and accurate.
At approximately 10:30pm in the summer of 1973 myself and two other friends
had just parked my car in a large field to have a few beers and talk and just
basically enjoy the pleasant summer evening. There was a full moon that night
and it seemed to be bigger and brighter than I had ever seen. The moon was
so bright that even though we were parked in the middle of a large field where
there were no lights anywhere for perhaps a mile or more, we could see well
enough to read by. While passing out our first beers to my buddies I happened
to notice an object in the night sky which I estimated to be at an altitude of
between 2500 and 3500 ft. I thought that I had seen the object move in a
triangular pattern at such a speed that I was not sure if I had actually been
correct in my initial observation. Without mentioning what I thought I had seen
to the other two people who were present with me, I continued to keep my
eyes on the object. After about fifteen or twenty seconds it did it again. After
seeing this happen a second time, I pointed the object out to the others and
asked them to keep their eyes on it. They both laughed and started joking
about how it was probably a flying saucer. Because none of us had ever before
seen anything of the sort and didn't actually believe the stories of such reports,
I suggested that it might be a new military heliocopter or something of the sort
because it did not appear to have a comparable lighting arrangement to
anything that I had seen before. As the three of us kept our collective eyes on
the object the craft made similar movements to the first that I had witnessed
by myself. After seeing the speed at which this craft moved and the sharp
angles at which it changed direction in mid flight, the two others who were
with me became very excited and immediately decided that it was indeed a
UFO. After the three of us had witnessed seeing the same such movements
of the object, I decided to move my car so that my headlights would be
pointing directly at it. I did not turn the headlights on until I was sure that they
were pointing directly at the object after which, I began to flash them on and
off and from high to low beam in a fashion similar to the old light signaling
technics used by the navy. After flashing my lights in this fashion for about
fifteen seconds or so, I turned them off and waited to see what would
happen. At first I did not think that anything would come of it but, after about
twenty or so seconds, we all noticed that the object had stopped flashing in
the mannor that it had been and that instead it now appeared as a white light
which remained on and didnot flash at all. As we continued to watch this
object we noticed that it now appeared to be getting bigger and within a few
more seconds it became obvious that it was heading in our direction at a fair
rate of speed. The object had dropped in altitude and was now comming in
just over tree top level. As the object moved closer to us it turned off it's lights
or light and as it came within the last quarter mile or so it passed directly in
front of the full moon which showed a very precise silouette of what was
indeed a saucer shaped craft. The moonlight was being refracted off of the
craft and it was now very clear that the craft was polished silver in color. As
we continued to observe this craft during the last one hundred yards or so of
it's approach, one of my friends became so terrified by the sight that he wet
his pants and began to panic. This person is a large man and usually afraid
of nothing. The friend of mine who became terrified was attempting to hide
himself behind the back seat of my car and screaming that we were all going
to die and that they were going to take us and disect us. As I stood there and
watched this craft, it came directly over our heads at approximately 100 to
120 feet at which time it stopped moving and just hovered in mid air. There
was no sound emitted from the craft at all and there was no wind being
generated such as would be from a turbine or rotor blades. The craft was so
close and the light from the moon was so bright that I could make out certain
details of the saucer which struck me as interesting such as, rivots along
where the apparent metal panels or sections of the craft were fitted together.
I could also see that the lights which were around the entire outer edge of
the craft rectangular shaped and were raised somewhat from the rest of the
saucers surface area perhaps as much as two inches. The lights or light
covers appeared to be somewhat opaque or semi-transparent and appeared
to be fairly thick. The closest thing that I have seen to describe this craft would
be the saucer that was shown on the beginning of the old TV serial called
THE INVADERS which was aired back around 1969 or 1970. The saucer
continued to hover directly over head for approximately 30 seconds and then
shot off towards the west so fast that all I could see was a red trail leading to
where it now hovered somewhere near HWY 5 which is also in burnsville, MN.
As we continued to watch the saucer dropped down below the tree line for
about another 30 seconds and then lifted up to it's original altitude of about
100 to 120 feet. It then hovered for about 15 seconds in a stationary position
after which it shined what appeared to be a red lazer beam aimed at an
approximate 45 degree angle into space for about 2 to 3 seconds before
taking off at the same extreme rate of speed previously witnessed. As it exited
our atmosphere, it followed the same precise angle and direction as the red
lazer that it had projected into space. About five minutes after the exit of this
craft from our atmosphere, the other two friends who were with me said they
saw what they described as a giant meteor or comet shooting directly in front
of the moon. I did not see this other object but did make a note of the time.
When I looked at my watch it was now 11:55pm. I cannot explain the missing
time. Since this experience I have discovered many new technologies and
have had many experiences which have opened my eyes to what actually
happened that night. I cannot get into the details at this point and it would take
volumes to tell it all. Also, the truth is now out there and it will soon be widely
known to the rest of the world no matter what happens to me. I have given
the description of this particular event simply because it is past time to bring
this subject into the light of truth. Also, there is now to much that is becomming
common knowledge for my past to continue to be a threat to the extent that
it has for the last thirty years. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
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From: Rob Sh.
Subject: Sighting-Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada
In the mid 70`s I had a excellent look (less than a 1/2 mile) at a long
cylindrical segmented flying something!It made no noise...it
stopped,turned 90 degrees and then carried right on by a NORAD(Pine Tree)
radar station.That happened in broad daylight I`ll never forget it. If it would
be at all possible could some information be obtained from your sources?!.
I think I Need It.
Thank you
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THE 1970'S ELMWOOD, WISCONSIN SIGHTINGS
Special thanks to Jim Burnett and Carol Cherry for relaying the
following article.
Picture this idyllic setting: A small town nestled in a serene valley,
cows grazing peacefully on farmland, streams filled with trout, and
friendly, compassionate neighbors everywhere. Hardly the setting for
UFO Sightings.
FIRST SIGHTING AS BIG AS A FOOTBALL FEILD
The sightings began in 1975 and would change the life of Police
Officer George Wheeler forever. His