Oct. '97 Reports (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Nov. '97 Reports (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Dec. '97 Reports (Last Update= 9/10/98)
October '97 Reports
National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 10/25/1997 21:45
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Minneapolis, MN
Shape, Summary : A small V of lights moving very quickly from west
to east.
The lights were small and round, like Christmas lights. The V was
moving East to West, leading with the point. The lights were white,
close to each other, and there were about 12-15 lights on each side
of the V. It looked very far away, the shape was very small and the
lights were quite dim. It was moving extremly fast, in less than a
minute it was out of sight.
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 10/15/1997 20:00
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Westfeild, WI
Shape : Light
We were driving down the road. We saw it out of the window. we lost track of it and
then saw it again whan we reached our destination.
We were driving down the road, I was in the back seat of the car. It looked like it
was circular, there would be a light and than right in front of it another light would
appear. It looked like it was turning in the sky, the way the lights turned. About 2
minutes later we lost it, but when we reached where we were going, we could see it
again. My mom, "one of the other people", said that it seemed like it followed us.
When we left, about 30 minutes later, we could not see it anywhere.
National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 10/10/1997 21:00
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Austin, MN
I was traveling northbound on State Highway 105 approximately 8
miles south of Austin, MN when an object came down directly above
my car. It scared the living daylights out of me. I drove off the
road cause I couldn't see in front of me whe I came to a stop. The
object was still there. I can't say what it looked like because it
was so bright I couldn't look directly at it. It was dead silent,
didn't make a sound nor did it move. I would say it stayed there for
a good half hour or so, then it shot straight up. Anyways I'm sure
it did because if it took off at an angle I would have gotten a good
look at it.
10/10/97 S. Minneapolis MA1
This witness contacted Craig Lang following the February MN MUFON meeting, to report
a number of anomalous activities. These included a nocturnal light sighting
observed in a northward direction from the approximate area of the 35E/35W junction
at the northward side of the cities. The witness, his wife, and his daughter, were
driving north on Oct 10, 1997, at about 7:30 PM, when they observed a bright light
to the NNE of them, at an intermediate elevation. They watched it appear to hover
for a few minutes, then dim, and turn to a red blinking light, moving from E to W.
[CL Note: some of this description appears to suggest an outbound aircraft from the
Grantsburg, WI airport. - This possibility is being considered, although the witness
does not feel that this explanation is adequate].
The witness has also described a series of close encounters throughout his life,
which will be described in deatil at a future time. Some of these events appear to
have multiple witnesses, and involve historical sighting cases in northwestern WI.
This investigation is ongoing.
UFO Over Lake Superior Sunday, October 5, 1997
On November 1, 1997 I received the following UFO report
from Thunderbay, Ontario. This is how the witness described
the event to me:
I saw something strange in the sky, but it didn't frighten
me. It was rather peculiar though, so I'm going to attempt
to describe it:
I was driving down Fort William road when I saw a large
object in the sky, which appeared to be near the Ontario
tax building. At first I thought it was plane, but it
suddenly dived from the sky to a lower altitude (much
fastere than a plane). I looked at it more carefully,
although it was lower on the horizon. It was shaped like
an eliptical ball, and it was white like a cloud. I thought
that maybe it was a cloud, but then it moved across the
sky in such an unatural manner that it couldn't have been.
It was heading across Lake Superior, so I drove to the
Marina to see if I could see it. I lost track of it, it
must have been traveling at a very high speed.
I went home and told a few people, but no one was impressed
by my story or even interested. It seemed unimpressive,
after all it was broad daylight. This all happened October
5th around 3:00 pm.
If you have any additional information please contact me
asap.
Notes by UFO Joe:
1.Source: Personal Mail Received November 1, 1997
2.Last Updated: Sunday Nov 2, 1997
Copyright (C)1997 Joseph Daniels, all rights reserved.
[email protected] -or- http://cron-2.mco.net/web/ufojoe
From: [email protected]
Subject: FireBall report
Sighting date: Oct. 2, 1997, 7:20pm
Location: Between MPLS & St.Paul, MN
After reading the observation by tracerbob from July 26, 1997, I wish to
report a similar experience. My 8 year old daughter and I were in between
Minneapolis and St. paul at a shopping center ambling westward. The sky
was clear blue, it was about 81 degrees out at 7:20 p.m. right as the sun
was setting. There was a long diagonally slanted (from top left to lower
right @ 45 degrees) red and orange fireball-like line of color descending
rapidly at that angle. Therewas no ball to speak of at what would be the
front. At first I thought it was a meteorite burning up as it hit the
atmosphere, but the intensity of the glow did not vary all the way until
it dropped out of sight in the distance. Many other planes were in the
sky and it was not an aircraft, simply a long streaking line of color.
The northern lights are happening I guess, and it is a good time for star
watching but I've seen the Northern Lights once and shooting stars and this
was something completely different. As we watched the first line of color
go down on the horizon, my daughter saw another going up (bottom left to
top right 45 degrees) which was a much shorter line which disappeared much
quicker. This convinced me that it was something which was not easily
explained. Anybody have any ideas as to what it may have been? Northern
Lights or something?
Jon
UFO SEEN BY MOTORIST OVER GACKLE, NORTH DAKOTA
On October 3, 1997, at 10:23 p.m., Lee M. Droney
of Fargo, North Dakota, was driving on Interstate Highway
I-94 a half-mile (0.8 kilometers) west of Gackle, N.D.
(population 456) when he spied a UFO.
Droney reported seeing "a meteorite-like object off
to the left appeared to stop and hover...The car radio
seemed to (suddenly) go out of range. There were other
vehicles on the road at the time which could have seen
the object." (See Filer's Files #40 for October 10, 1997)
Gackle is located on North Dakota Highway 46
approximately 126 miles (202 kilometers) southwest
of Fargo. (Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON
for this report.)
November '97 Reports
11/28/97 19:30
Lake Geneva, WI
Fireball
Follow-up to article in Chicago Sun Times 12/3/97 re "Fireball" in Will Co,
Illinois 12/30. Saw similar in Lake Geneva, WI 11/28/97. (NUFORC)
11/28/97 00:45
St. Paul, MN
Fireball - An orange "shooting star" in the SSE area of the sky. (NUFORC)
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 11/17/1997 02:00
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Sioux Falls, SD
Summary : Giant white streak moving across the sky at a high rate of
speed stopped and took a 90 degree turn and went straight up and
eventually vanished into the night sky. It changed colors from a
brilliant white to a pale bluish hue.
We were driving along Highway 11 at about 2 am at a rate of 55 miles
per hour. In the northeast quadrant we saw a bright white object that
caught our eye because it was moving very quickly. it moved from the
east to the west and stopped on a dime it looked to be enormous and
might have been seen from quite a distance . We pulled the car over
and got out to view it better. The object while it was stopped,
changed from the bright white light we originally saw changed to a
bluish hue. It looked as though it was hovering over or near EROS
Data Center. The cows in the field on the east side of the road
seemed to be come nervous and start walking around. The object then
darted off at a 90 degree angle and went straight up until it
vanished.
UFO SPOTTED BY TRIO NEAR BROOKSTON, MINNESOTA
On Saturday, November 15, 1997, at 4:45 p.m.,
Dave Briscoe and two companions were out in the field
near Brookston, Minnesota (population 450), a town
on U.S. Route 2 about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west
of Duluth.
"It does get dark real early up here," Skywatch
member Dave Briscoe reported, "and Venus can be
seen early, but this was the wrong place for Venus.
The object was in the west-southwest (over the Fond
du Lac Indian Reservation--J.T.) and extremely bright
for the time of day. As I watched it, it veered to the
left and right slightly, and then split in two. Both
objects 'danced' in the sky, always the same distance
from each other, first up, down, left and right. They
then merged and were stationary (hovering) for the
next five minutes."
"Again splitting and remaining stationary, then
recombining and moving slightly to the left, then
slightly to the right." The trio watched the "pulsating
light" for about twenty minutes "until clouds moved
into the area, and it became undiscernable." He
estimated the object's position at 72 degrees above
the horizon." (Email Interview)
(Editor's Comment: Chalk up another UFO sighting
for the Lake Superior region. The last one was on
October 5, 1997 over Thunder Bay, Ontario.)
(UFOROUNDUP)
"SEATTLE LIGHTS" SEEN IN IOWA THE SAME NIGHT
On Friday, November 14, 1997, a witness was driving
on Interstate Highway 80, just south of Brooklyn, Iowa
(population 1,509), a town 64 miles (102 kilometers)
east of Des Moines, when he spotted a few miles away
"a horizontal row of seven or more steady white lights
at about 40 degrees up from the horizon ascending at
a 15-degree angle from the southeast to the northwest."
The sighting took place at 7:30 p.m. Central time,
four hours before the "Seattle Lights" event.
"The lights would have crossed his path of travel if
the 100 foot (30 meter) long object turned sharply and
headed back east-southeast at a steeply-descending
angle--almost in a dive. When the object tilted, showing
one end lower than the other, he could see a portion of
the surface illuminated by lights. At that point, the object
was a quarter-mile south of I-80...He drove at 65 miles per
hour to the end of the row of trees, at the end of which he
expected to see the object sitting in the field. But when
he reached that point, he saw that the object had
simply disappeared." (Many thanks to Beverly Trout of
Iowa MUFON for this report.)
TWO COLLEGE STUDENTS SEE UFO OVER AMES, IOWA
On Tuesday night, November 11, 1997, two college
students driving back to Ames, Iowa (population 45,775),
a city on Highway 69 about 28 miles (45 kilometers)
north of Des Moines, spotted a strange object in the sky.
The pair from Iowa State University "saw a dark
orange/amber globe of light at about 40 degrees up from
the horizon, to the left of the roadway. At first they
thought the light was resting on a 100-foot water tower
nearby, but this proved not to be the case. They
proceeded west and caught sight of a full circular orb
now ahead of them and moving very fast. The object
finally began to sink below the horizon, and the two
men watched it disappear from view." (Many thanks to
Beverly Trout of Iowa MUFON for this report.)
Subject: (UFOSSI) Sighting Report
Witness: "Old Wolf"
Date of Sighting: Sat, 15 Nov 1997
Subject: UFO Sighting report
Saw something in the sky this evening at 4:45pm and even though it does
get dark up here real early and Venus can be seen early, this was in the
wrong place for Venus.
The object was WSW and extreamly bright for the time of day. As I
watched it it veared to the left and right slightly, and then split in
two. Both objects then "danced" in the sky always the same distance
from each other, but up, down, left and right. They then merged and
became one again and was stationary for the next 5 minutes. Again
splitting and remaining stationary, then recombining and moving slightly
to the left and then to the right. Becoming brighter still, it looked
like a pulsating light orb.
After 21 minutes the clouds moved into the area and it became
unobservable.
Distance was unmeasurable, it was approximatly 72 degrees with
relation to the ground, and there are 2 other witnesses. Local
police were notified but no report was filed - they know me as that
crackpot. Exact location where I observed this object is 92 degrees 20
minutes X 46 degrees 50 minutes.
Dave
Old Wolf
Minnesota State Director of Skywatch International
http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~oldwolf
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 11/2/1997 18:50
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Green Bay, WI
Summary : A loose formation of 3 orange non-blinking lights observed slowly crossing
evening sky.
A formation of 3 orange non-blinking lights was observed 11/02/97 18:50 Green Bay,
WI When first spotted by my mother[49], they were in a roughly triangular formation,
moving slowly east. She called for me to come outside and look at somthing. I went
out and watched them for about 5 minutes until the upper two were slowly enveloped
in the cloud cover. I went inside and got my SLR camera & 400mm lens. I went back
out and looked at the remaining light, but the strong lens showed revealed no shape
behind the light. The other two lights now began to emerge from the clouds and the
formation of the three was now close to linear and vertical. I would estimate their
distance to be about 2-3 miles. I couldn't tell if they were making any sound because
a helicopter was hovering 1.3 miles to the west, over the football stadium. The orange
lights had no accompanying aircraft-style strobes or red/blue positioning lights. They
did not move constantly, as a sattelite would and! the cloud cover was dense enough
to obscure anything that high or faint. I am 34 and I am quite familiar with the way civil
and military aircraft move. These lights moved similarly to helicopters, but had no
regulation lights and didn't generate the sounds that a group of 3 military helicopters
would make. I asked a neighbor to look at them. He did, but looked for 3 seconds,
said "Oh, airplanes", and went back inside. I was looking for film inside for 2 minutes
and when I went back outside, the 3 lights had vanished.
December '97 reports
Sighting Date: 12/9/97 7:23am CST
Sighting Location: Cloquet, MN
I have been searching thru the internet on many
websites for UFO sightings trying to find pictures
similar to the object that I have seen. I think that
I have finally been successful. It was a picture of
a black ' V ' which had been given the name of
" Leviathan ". The short article said that there had
been several sightings in March of 1997 in Arizona.
Have there been any reported sightings in
Minnesota? My sighting was on Tuesday, December
9, 1997, at 7:23 AM.
I am employed by the xxxxxx Corporation as a Senior
Buyer in the Purchasing Department and was on my way
to work. The object was a ways above the tree line
looking out over the St. Louis River in Cloquet,
Minnesota. The object just appeared all of sudden in
my field of vision, traveling from east to west, and
lasting for only about 2 seconds in time (tho it seemed
longer, I'm sure it was not) and just as suddenly
disappeared. It was positioned on it's side so that
one had the full affect of the ' V ' shape. The
pictures that I saw of the Leviathan showed sets of
circular lights on the bottom of the craft but if my
memory serves me correctly, I thought the craft had
square sets of lights with one set at the end of each
section of the V, and one set about midway, but I am
unable to recall if there were any lights near the point
of the ' V ' or not. The craft appeared to me to be
huge, but I have no way to really judge that as I had no
way to tell it's distance from me or how high above the
ground it was.
I would be very interested in hearing more about this
craft & if any other reports have been filed. I should
have reported this sooner but all of this is quite new
to me. I wasn't even sure who to contact or who was safe
to contact, but thought I would take a chance when I found
info on the Minnesota MUFON.
I hope the Date of 12/09 is correct as I never docu-
mented it. I never thought I would need it for future
reference. It may have been later in December but
I feel that the 9th is correct or very close to the date
that I saw it.
12/15/97 23:35
Marlette, MI
Circle
A large solid noiseless object, possibly round, with four
lights, passed slowly over a residential neighborhood in
Marlette, MI. (NUFORC)
12/2/97 20:30
Birch Run, MI
Chevron
I went to the door to put my dog out. I saw red and
green lights coming across Birch Run Rd toward my
house through the trees. (NUFORC)
12/2/97 20:00
birch run, MI
Disc Craft was smaller than light aircraft was
flying very low and seemed it was decending. It had 5 very bright lights 4
being red on the on top. (NUFORC)
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