Older UFO sightings.
Sightings from the 1940's (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Sightings from the 1950's (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Sightings from the 1960's (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Sightings from the 1970's (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Sightings from the 1980's (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Sightings from 1990 thru 1994 (Last Update= 4/19/99)
Sightings from the 1940's
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.
Sightings from the 1950's
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sightings from the 1960's
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 8/8/1965 23:10
Reported : 2/11/1998 12:20
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Minneapolis, MN
Shape : Changing
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.
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.
October 23, 1965, 1915, Long Prairie, Minnesota
As driver rounded curve, engine, radio and lights went out.The witness saw
a UFO on the highway with three small beings near it.UFO took off with
humming sound. "James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his
engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object
10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting
on fins on the road. Three creatures with "tripod legs and matchstick arms,"
brownish-black in color, having no eyes or facial features, stood in a large,
lighted circle under it, facing the witness for a few moments before
disappearing in the intense light. The object rose straight up for 400 m,
with a high-pitched humming sound, stopped and vanished. The car then
resumed normal operation by itself.
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.
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)
Apr. 22, 1966, 1530, Bagley (Minnesota).
Several people were said to have observed an object fly at low altitude and
land outside Bagley. It seemed to make repairs, then the craft flew away.
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.
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)
Sightings from the 1970's
Sighting Date: 9/25/79
Two men fishing on Lake George in southwest Rochester, Minnesota
reported they saw a silvery UFO following a leisurely course from
southeast to northwest. The two men, Tim Thorndale, of Zumbro Falls,
and David Hinrichs, of Zumbrota, described the object as chrome-colored,
highly reflective and spherical in shape, though flat on the top and
bottom Thorndale, who called the Rochester Airport, the National
Weather Service, Rochester police, and the Rochester Post-Bulletin,
gave this account:
While fishing on the artificial lake in Green Meadows Subdivision
with friends, he said they spotted the object about 5 p.m., and
continued watching it until the object, moving higher as it
traveled northeast, rose out of sight. He described it as round,
flat on the bottom, 'like a frisbee', without wings, having no
lights, making no sound and leaving no visible trail.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Dec. '79)
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Sighting Date: 9/18/79
CANNON FALLS, MINNESOTA... at least nine people at two different
locations had the same experience on September 18, at about 4:15 p.m.
All nine saw what they believe to be the same object, "A SHINY, ROUND
DISC," described by one as "chrome-colored" that looked like an upside
down hubcap - Four of the nine: 11-year-old Tanya Weber, her 9-year-
old brother Tony, 11-year-old Kevin Molstrom, and 9-year-old Jody
Foregien, were tumbling in the backyard of the Tom and Linda Weber home.
The other five, Arnie Hjermstad, Dennie Felton, Jerry Ratlaff, Jerry
Schanink, and Allen Barsness, were working on the Hjermstad house, only
a block away.Relatives of the Webers own a hot air balloon and the
children have ridden in one. They are also familar with airplanes and
don't believe that this object was either a plane or a balloon. The
children said the object was moving from northwest to southeast. Workers
at the Hjermstad house said the same.
"The object was sighted at 11 o'clock in the sky moving from northwest
to southeast," said Arnie Hjermstad. "We're sure it was the same sighting
(as the Weber children)." According to Hjermstad, air currents that day
were moving from west to east, but this object "was going faster than
air currents. It was flying as fast as a jet, or faster. I'm guessing."
Hjermstad did comment that when a jet goes over the horizon it appears
to be going down, because of the curvature of the earth. "This thing
stayed the same or got even higher," said Hjermstad.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Jan. '80)
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Sighting Date: 8/27/79
Sheriff Dennis G. Brekke of Marshall County, Minnesota has released
a final report on the UFO incident involving Deputy Val Johnson on
August 27, 1979. The report was based on research conducted by Roland D.
Wardell of Edina, Minnesota, who is a registered professional
metallurgical engineer.
As reported in the August, 1979 issue of the APRO Bulletin, Deputy
Johnson was on patrol about 1:40a.m. when he spotted a bright light. As
he headed toward it, the light swooped in on him and his last recollection
was the sound of breaking glass. The encounter resulted in extensive damage
to the squad car and irritation to Johnson's eyes.
Wardell emphasized that he conducted his research on his own and that his
expertise was in material rather than UFOs. He examined the car's antennas
and fragments of glass from the headlights and top flasher light.
In his report to Brekke, Wardell said his inspection points to a highly
charged electrical "thing" with enough mass and momentum to break the left
head-light, crack the windshield, bend two antennas, dis-rupt the car's
electrical system and stop both the car clock and Johnson's wristwatch for
14 minutes.
"I found no earthly explanation that could cause all of those things", Wardell
said. "You cou~ pick out all sorts of earthly explanations to cause single
portions of it, but to cause all of those things, that makes it very interesting."
Two factors discount a natural phenomenon such as lightning, Wardell said. He
cited the sustained, hori-zontal, beam-like appearance of the light, and the
need for mass to accomplish what happened to the patrol car.
The disruption of the car's electrical system "points heavily to something
electrical in nature, with enough force to bend the antennas," Wardell said.
But with a man-made charge, he added, he would have expected to see more
evidence that the light arced from one point to another.
In concluding his report, Wardell said any statement as to what damaged the
car would be speculation. But he did not rule out the possibility of some kind
of vehicle from outer space.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Feb. '80)
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Sighting Date: 9/16/79
COOPERSTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA... at least 16 people saw a bright flame-
colored object on September 16, 1979. Mr. and Mrs. Don Loder, Jim
Scott and Ethel Painter made the original report at approximately
8:30 p.m. Shortly after, Ethel's grandson Todd Painter and his
companion Gary Vareberg, who had been hunting doves about five miles
west of town were about to go home when they saw a bright orange
object overhead. Todd said it was big, round and had a tail that
pointed downward. They got into their pickup truck and watched the
object move back and forth before it headed west.
Esther Larson was leaving the hospital, where she had been doing
some work in the Laboratory. She left by the west door at approx.
8:30 p.m., and over the trees she saw a bright orange object that
seemed to have flashing lights. She reported that it was partly
cone-shaped and partly round.
The Arnold Saxberg family reported sighting the object over their
farm. Mr. Saxberg described it as oblong or oval, and when it turned
it looked like two tails or flames went straight up from the base.
"It was red, like fire, and moved slowly," said Mrs. Saxberg, who
estimated they watched it for 15 - 20 minutes. She noticed that the
object was traveling northwest against the wind, which was from the
southwest.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Jan. '80)
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Date: 10/19/1979 at 10:30 pm
Location: Baldwin , WI
Source: Eau Claire, WI Leader-Telegram, October 31, 1979
Unexplained night lights near Baldwin part of increasing UFO activity
in area (First of two parts) Scott Sieracki was watching the 10:30
movie Oct. 19 at his farm home 8 miles south of Baldwin, a 1973 film
called "Westworld". He was alone in the living room. His brother was
asleep upstairs. The movie wore on, and Sieracki, an average ninth
grader at Baldwin-Woodville High School, felt hungry. He got up from
his chair and headed through the archway into the dining room, on his
way to the kitchen to get something to eat. But as he passed by the
window on the north wall, something shining above a pasture caught his
eye. Sieracki stopped and looked closer. It was a light, but not from
a late-working tractor in a neighbor's field as he had supposed. He sat
on a chair by the window and watched. Two Shining Lights. There were
two of them, one a little larger than the other, bright and uncolored,
hovering above the ground. They appeared to be about 1,000 feet away,
at the corner of an unharvested sunflower field, flashing on and off as
if they were pivoting around an axis, first shining and then hidden from
view. Sieracki watched a few seconds, then ran up the steep steps to
wake his brother. He couldn't raise him. He ran back downstairs and
looked out the window again. The lights were still there. Sieracki
went to the back door, opened it and looked out. He heard only the
crickets chirping in the darkness and the wind rustling the leaves,
no sound of an airplane or motor. The lights continued to rotate, and
Sieracki saw that they cast beams, like a spotlight in a war movie, as
they went around. At times, they even illuminated the granary in the
yard. Locked The Door Sieracki closed the door and locked it. Going back
to the window, he watched the beams a short time more. Then they were
gone. Sieracki finally made it to the kitchen to get his snack, then
went up to bed. He didn't tell anyone of what he'd seen until the
following Sunday, when he mentioned it to his mother. But he did go
out to the spot the lights seemed to be above, and the grass was a little
browner in the shape of a circle in one place. The next Wednesday,
although the lights weren't seen again, the family collie howled all night,
and one of two pet hamsters in a cage attacked and killed the other. Called
UFO Center Mrs. Sieracki told some of her friends at work what her son
had seen. They told her she should report it. That's when Mrs. Sieracki
called Bradley E. Ayers. Ayers is not a man with a mundane profession.
He's a field investigator for the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill.,
and works out of his Lakeland, Minn., home. He's investigated nearly
200 reports of unidentified flying objects in the past five years in
western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, many involving nocturnal lights
such as Scott Sieracki saw. Ordinarily, a sighting such as Sieracki's with
just one witness seeing distant lights at night wouldn't get detailed
attention from Ayers, but the incident south of Baldwin two Fridays ago
occurred in an area of high UFO activity this fall, so Ayers decided to
investigate personally. Last Saturday, Ayers drove from his home on the
bluffs overlooking the St. Croix Valley to the Sieracki home. Equipped
with note pad and tape recorder, he sat down at the dining room table with
young Sieracki and his mother. Youth Hesitant Ayers reassures Sieracki,
telling him to relax and not be afraid because many others have had the
same experience. He asks Sieracki questions about what he was doing that
night, why he walked past the window and what he saw. Sieracki's mother
shows Ayers a pencil sketch her son made of the twin lights, and they
talk for more than an hour. The youth is hesitant to speak of what
happened, but Ayers presses on. Sieracki sits at the chair in front of
the window recreating his actions the night of the sighting. He tells
Ayers how the lights hovered above the pasture below the top of the
distant treeline. Then Sieracki retraces his steps to the door and tells
Ayers how the lights beams hit the side of the building. He holds an ink
pen at arm's length to show the lights were about the size of the tip of
the pen held that distance from the eye. Not First Sighting Mrs. Sieracki
tells Ayers that Scott's sighting was not the first made from the farm.
She relates how in 1974, driving home in her pickup, she spotted a light
above the horizon. She dismissed it as being a helicopter, but later it
was still there. Then it began gliding in her direction. The craft was
crescent shaped with a beam in front and in the rear was what appeared to
be exhaust in the colors of the spectrum. The craft passed into the
distance. Ayers, Sieracki and his mother then drive through the pasture
to the point over which the October 19 UFO appeared to hover. As the
Sierackis said, the grass at the spot is a little browner than the rest
of the surrounding pasture. Is there a connection between the dryness
and the lights? To say yes would be speculation, Aters says, so he takes
a kit from the trunk of his car and fills sample bags with bits of
vegetation from the spot and another area. The samples are later sent to
the Center for UFO Studies and analyzed in laboratories to see if they
have been subjected to unusual amounts of light or chemicals. Ayers
drives back to the Sieracki house with the woman and her son. He tells
them he will contact them he will contact them before he sends his report
to the center. Then he asks Sieracki what one detail of the sighting
stands out most in his mind. "The beams like a spotlight," he replies.
Part two of this article will run on Friday's regional page. NOTE: I do
not have part two of the article. If anyone does have it, please "wfiles
@juno.com" send it in.
UFOSSI
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Sighting Date: 9/7/79
Two south Milwaukee, Wisconsin men claim to
have observed a pointed mushroom-shaped UFO hovering over
trees at the end of Drexel Boulevard ...
Bruce Szewcrugs and Randall Proschheuser claim they saw what
appeared to be a large UFO hovering over some trees. The object
was in the shape of a mushroom with a pointed top bent to the
right. Szewcrugs described the object as 'very bright orange
in color, glowing with different shades of orange.' It kept
appearing and fading as his truck continued its eastbound
direction. it appeared as though it was partially behind some
trees as branches could be seen along the bottom of the UFO.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Nov. '79)
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Sighting Date: 9/5/79
Larry Hogan sighted an object in the sky which
made the dark green foliage of the woods an excellent background
for defining the lines of the metallic silvery craft.........
In Dresser, Wisconsin, the object made absolutely no noise as
it hovered over the Louis Kloce bean field about 10 feet above
the vegetation. There were no external features to the craft,
no lights or appendages and, at that point, it seemed to be
moving about 30-40 mph. Hogan was joined by a man from Yellow River
Supply. The two saw the silvery object rise slowly and move to the
southeast over East Lake where it again seemed to hover at an altitude
which witnesses estimated at 200 feet. Common observations of the
witnesses were that the vehicle moved in a deliberate manner and that
it was intelligently controlled, possibly by remote control. It seemed
to have a purpose - 'like one of our space probes', the men said. The
size was estimated at 6 to 8 feet with a 2 to 4 foot thickness and
silvery to reddish metallic coloring.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Dec. '79)
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Sighting Date: 9/1/79
A pair of UFOs were reported by three Green County sheriff's
deputies over New Glarus Woods, Wisconsin . . . the deputies,
who remain anonymous, said they saw two bright lights below
cylinder-shaped objects for a 25 minute period. The deputies,
who made their sightings from the intersection of Legler Road
and Wis .39, said that the objects appeared to be 150 - 200
feet over the woods. They said one of the two sources of light
moved quite a bit, while the other did not appear to move. The
objects were reported to have disappeared when clouds and rain
moved in.
A.P.R.O. Bulletin (Nov. '79)
SUBJECT: UFO DAMAGED CAR IN MINNESOTA
Studying the brilliant light in the stand of trees two and a half miles south
of him, Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson wondered if drug smugglers
had flown over the Canadian border into the flat, isolated terrain of far
northwestern Minnesota. The light was close to the ground, suggesting that the
plane had either landed or crashed. Or maybe there was some simpler
explanation. Johnson headed down the county highway to investigate. It was
1:40 A.M. on August 27, 1979.
The next thing Johnson knew, the light was shooting directly toward him,
moving so fast that its passage seemed almost instantaneous. The last thing he
heard was the sound of breaking glass.
At 2:19 A.M. a weak voice crackled over the radio in the sheriff's
despatcher's office at Warren, Minnesota. It was Johnson, who had just
regained consciousness. His car had skidded sideways and now was stretched at
an angle across the northbound lane, its front tilting toward the ditch. Asked
what happened, Johnson could only reply, "I don't know. Something just hit my
car."
Officers who arrived on the scene found the car had sustained strange damage,
including a seriously cracked windshield, a bent antenna, smashed lights, and
other damage. Both the car clock and Johnson's wristwatch were running 14
minutes slow, through both had been keeping correct time until the UFO
incident. Johnson's eyes hurt badly as if, and examining physician declared,
from "welding burns."
Allan Hendry of the Center for UFO Studies along with experts from Ford and
Honeywell conducted an extensive investigation. Their conclusion: The
windshield damage was caused by stones apparently carried in the wake of the
unknown object. The Honeywell expert thought the bent antenna probably
resulted from a "highvelocity air blast superimposed on the air movement over
the fast-moving car."
9/15/78 Spring Lake Park CE1 (W/Casey Holt)
Note: Related to other 1978/79 Minnesota events (?)
This sighting was originally brought to our attention by Bob Engberg, who knows the
primary witness. There are a possible 10 (plus) witnesses to the event. We have
interviewed five of them, with form1 reports from three. The event began when daughter
of the primary witness ran into the house shouting something like "there's a flying
saucer over the house...". The primary witness and his son, who had been watching
a boxing match on TV, went outside to look, and saw that what she was describing was,
indeed a "flying saucer".
A number of witnesses observed this object at the same time. These include a group
of about five children, including the primary witness's kids, and their friends, and
an unknown number of neighbors (Note: we are attempting to follow up with some
neighbors who may have been witnesses). In addition, a mother and son, who were
acquaintences of the primary witness family, were in a car nearby, and observed
the object. They pulled off to the side of the road briefly, to watch it, then
continued on their way. Their descriptions approximately match that of the other
witnesses.
All witnesses describe a large lenticular disk (on the order of 50 feet in diameter),
with a dome. A ring of approximately 20 +/- 10 lights appeared to be on the rim of
the craft, rotating from right to left, as viewed edge on. (Note: one description
of the object places the lights on the base of the dome, rather than on the rim).
Casey began the initial investigation work on it in 1997. The prelimiary report
based upon the five known witnesses, is in progress and should be submitted in April
or May of 1998. Further investigation on this and all other regional sightings of
that time, is ongoing. See Craig Lang or Casey Holt if you have any additional
information.
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 7/15/1978 23:00 (Entered as : 07/xx/78 23:00)
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Fargo, ND
Shape : Triangle
Glowing triangular object, composed of smaller triangles, floated
silently across sky from NE to SW.
Summer night in Fargo, ND. Wind unusually calm. Cloudless sky. Year
was approximately 1978. Sitting alone on the deck about 11 pm, I saw
a triangular-shaped glowing object, composed of smaller triangles,
floated silently from NE to SW over the roof of my house. It went in
the direction of the triangle's point. I ran to the SE corner of the
house to see it emerge from the other side of the house but did not
see it again. Could not tell how high it was; if it was within 50
yards of the roof, it was about 30-50 feet long; if it was higher,
it was much bigger. My background: college graduate, never have done
any drugs, never smoked anything, very light drinker. Always have
been interested in aviation/ aerospace. At the time I was in my mid
30s with a husband and two young children. My son, also always
interested in aviation/aerospace, is now a pilot for a regional
airline.
Jan., 1978 AN5 (Douglas County, WI):
The witness and two friends were in a car, skywatching, on a side road
in Douglas Co. WI, near the reported location of previous UFO sightings.
During the wee hours of the night, they observed a pattern of lights
on the rear window of the car. Suddenly the primary witness, who was
in the drivers seat, suddenly experienced a severe "Electric" shock
("Like 440 Volts was wired directly to my head"). The witness was
immobilized ("scrambled") for several minutes, until finally being
able to function and speak. Some time later, the three returned to
their homes in Superior, WI. The next event occurred later that day.
Jan., 1978 AN4 (if non-physical) or CE1 (if a physical event):
After the AN5 incident (described above) the witness slept until well
into the following day. At that time he awoke to observe an extremely
large object to the south of the city. The object was drifting at
a moderate pace north. The witness ran outside to observe an EXTREMELY
large UFO (nearly covering the sky) approach the city. [CL Note: to
date, no other reports of a large UFO in far northern Wisconsin in
early 1978 have been located]. The witness indicates that he then
remembers nothing more.
Jan., 1978 Douglas County "Earthlight":
The primary witness and one of his friends (a witness to the "shock"
AN5 incident described above) went back out to this same location.
At about 1:30 AM, they observed a red luminous sphere approximately
2 feet in diameter rise from the road, about 50 feet to the south,
behind their car. The ball rose to about 12 feet in elevation in
two seconds. It hung there for three to five seconds, then descended
in about two seconds. The event repeated itself approximately three
seconds later. The witnesses closely examined the location where
the object had appeared, with the aid of a powerful spotlight.
They were unable to find any marks in the snow covered road.
[CL Note: If anyone has reports of a UFO events in the Douglas
County/Superior, WI area in 1978, especially of "earthlights" or
of a GIGANTIC UFO (filling the sky) near the city of Superior, WI,
please contact the investigator, Craig R. Lang at [email protected],
or (612)560-1532].
*This sighting is an oldie, but weird. From Canada. (approx. 1977).*
The person involved requests some kind of identification or perhaps someone
else saw it or has seen one like it. E-mail me at address at bottom of page if
you know anything about it. Thanks.
Note: This is the actual message received (w/grammatical corrections).
I would like to report on a very strange event I and a friend saw
back in the 70s. It has been so many years now and I want an answer. A friend
and I were walking to the arena in Kanata, Ontario, Canada. I think I was
around 16 or 17 at the time so it was around 1977 ok. I am deaf and my friend
is hearing we were walking through a field where there was a line of tall
trees to our left. While I was lipreading my friend, I saw a light blink
behind the trees. I thought it was the moon. After walking about a qaurter of
a mile till we got to the end of the tree line to the road, we stopped,
frozen, (stunned at what we saw). At first we thought it was a missile
ejecting fuel I dont know what the hell it was. All I can say we saw this
weird looking shape with one colour like a bright white-yellow uniform
throughout. It was shaped like a spiraled unicorn horn. We wathched this
"thing" move very slowly in the sky. The shape was uniform for the whole
15-20 minutes we saw this thing. My hearing friend said there was no sound.
We got paranoid and ran back home the same way we came. I glanced once in a
while through the trees. The light was still there. But once we got back to
the houses and saw a friend outside, we tried to show her the light. But when
we turned back to look at it, it was gone. My friend ran home saying nothing
and never came out of the house for two weeks.
What the hell was this thing? A UFO????
(Witness identity withheld pending permission). Note: This report is not as
yet confirmed.
Date: 10/12/1977 at 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Location: Neillsville, Auburndale and Wood County, WI
Source: Stevens Point, WI Daily Journal, October19, 1977
NEILLSVILLE, WI. (AP) - Clark County authorities reported Wednesday
night they were investigating what one man called his second encounter
in a week with an unidentified flying object. The sheriff's office
said it had statements from 11 persons who provided virtually identical
descriptions of an object with white, green and yellow lights, ports
that looked like windows, and a red light on a pointed tail. Mark
Grop, who said he saw the object a week ago while returning home from
choir practice, reported having been among several frightened persons
who saw it for about five minutes Wednesday about 8 p.m. at tree-top
level west of Neillsville. The sheriff's office said it thought at first
it might have had something to do with military exercises underway at
Fort McCoy about 40 miles to the south. But inquiries failed to link
the Neillsville account to the Army installation, a deputy sheriff said.
In Wood County, the neighboring county to the east, a flashing light
described as a possible unidentified flying object was reported to have
been sighted about 7 p.m. Wednesday. Cliff Borden, news director for
Wisconsin Rapids radio station WFHR, said he and WFHR sports director
Terry Stake were leaving a marsh at the Mead Wildlife Area seven miles
northeast of Auburndale after duck hunting when they saw the light. He
said the light, spotted to the east, was high in the sky but not high
enough to be a satellite. It was flashing similarly to a strobe light,
standing still and then moving erratically, unlike either an airplane or
a helicopter, he added. Borden said that the light moved out of sight
to the east after several minutes. He said it was the first time he had
sighted a possible UFO.
UFOSSI
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Date: 9/15/1976
Location: Between Ringle and Callon, WI
Source: Wausau, WI Record-Herald, September 15,1976
Report UFO sighting A pair of men on their way to work at Drott
Manufacturing in Wausau saw what they believed to be an unidentified
flying object between Ringle and Callon this morning. Fred Wanta,
Eland Route 1, and Charles J. Kurzsewski, Wittenberg Route 1, were
traveling on Highway 29 at 6:30 a.m. today when they saw an object
with blue lights hovering above a wooded area. Wanta told The Daily
Herald that the object "Took off like a shot over the woods." Wanta
couldn't describe the object but said "It was something like I've
never seen before." The Marathon County Sheriff's Department received
no reports of UFO sightings in the area.
UFOSSI
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Date: Late May, 1976
Location: Algoma, WI
Source: Luxemburg, WI News, June 3, 1976
Algoma Resident Sights Saucer Sometime during the latter part
of last week an Algoma resident of the CedarCorners area reported the
sighting of an unidentified flying object, circular in shape. The man
took several poloroid photographs of the UFO which will be in this
week's issue of the Algoma Record Herald.
UFOSSI
Sighting Date: May 11, 1976
Sighting Location: Algoma, WI
In 1976, my friend and I lived in Door County. I was just beginning to do
speaking and singing engagements and my friend Gary and I were on our way
home from one such engagement in Southern Wisconsin. It was about 11:00
p.m. on May 11th. It was a very clear, cool night and you could see the
stars for miles and miles - especially over Lake Michigan.
We had just passed through the small city of Algoma and were headed North
on County Highway 'S'. I had fallen asleep in the back of the car. Gary
was driving and watching the stars and the road of course. About 2 or 3
miles North of Algoma, Gary saw something weird in the sky. He woke me by
telling me that he had just seen the coolest falling stars he had ever
seen. He said that they were green in color rather than the normal white
you would see on a normal falling star or meteor. I couldn't sleep after
that. I was bummed out that I had missed something so cool. He explained
that they were identical in size and fell right next to each other into
Lake Michigan. I thought that maybe there was some kind of meteor shower
happening, so I crawled into the front seat to watch for anything else cool
that might occur. Who could sleep after that, right?
I was sitting there, staring out the window when we both saw something at
the same time. Two green lights headed toward us from the Northeast. They
looked just like the headlights from an airplane, but they were green. As
we continued to move North, they continued to head South - getting closer
and closer. After a few minutes of this, we decided to stop the car and
get out for a better look.
The lights were directly to the right of us (east) when we stopped. It
appeared that the object the lights were coming from was only a thousand
feet or so up and only about 1/4 mile away from us. It was traveling
directly over the surface of Lake Michigan. They continued to move very
slowly until it was just a little Southeast of us and then stopped. They
circled around and headed toward us like they wanted to check us out.
There was absolutely no noise - just an erie quiet and the brightness of
the lights. We couldn't see that there was any kind of craft or anything
as the lights were too bright.
Well, we are only wanna-be adventures and our courage reflects this. We
got scared. We were curious about what this thing was, but we weren't
interested in an encounter. We hopped in the car and continued North -
FAST. Well, this thing decided to give chase. The faster we traveled, the
closer it got and acted to us like it was pursuing us. I would guess that
it followed us for a couple of miles. I was turned around in the seat
watching the thing carefully. I was yelling that it was chasing us and
Gary was yelling that he knew and said he was going as fast as he could.
All of a sudden, the thing just flew up into the sky and disappeared!
Nothing. It was just gone. Needless to say, we were shaken quite a bit.
When we got to our apartment, I called the police. When I began to
describe the sighting to them, they told me that I was not the only one who
had called about such an experience that night, and that we had described
it exactly as the other callers had done.
Here is the actual entry from my journal. It isn't very detailed, but I
thought that I would include it anyway:
May 11, 1976
"Tonight has really been one of the weirdest evenings I have ever had! I
saw and reported a UFO. The police said that we described it exactly as
others had, including two deputies."
I might have added more about the UFO to the entry, but our neighbors home
had caught fire and the mother of the family died. We ran to watch the
fire. The next section of the entry speaks about the fire and how it was
effecting my emotions.
Mark
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 4/15/1975 02:00 (Entered as : 4/?/75 ~2:00)
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Onalaska, WI
Shape : Disk
I saw it in the night sky after coming home with my parents from a late party at my uncle's
house. The craft was just hovering there for a few minutes, and then shot off at an
astounding rate (must have been >MACH 5) towards the western horizon and disappeared
from view without a peep.
The object was a bronze saucer/dome shape with a white glowing 'portals' around the
mid/upper circumferance of the hull. Smaller, blinking, multi- colored lights were present
around the lower edge of the hull. On the bottom was a large, white glowing hemisphere.
(NUFORC NOTE: Date and time approximate.)
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 � foot tall and about 2 � 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 � 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.)
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
Rob
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
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!
Sightings from the 1980's
1982 Bemidji CE1 (occurred in Summer, exact date unknown.) Observed on W. Side of
Lake Mina, NNE of Bemidji, from lake's E. Side.
Note: This is a followup investigation to the 1996 S. Minneapolis MA1, which was
e-mailed to the website by the witness. During the interview regarding the MA1, he
also described this object which he and his cousin observed at moderately close
range (exact distance unknown).
The object appeared to be a glowing white lenticular disk shape, with a brighter red
core. There was also an inverted cone shape field of light descending from the
object, with a bright blue light at its base. The primary witness remembered a low
pitched hum which may be associated with the object.
The object moved in "short spurts" over the tree line on the far side of the lake.
It appeared to be a hundred-plus feet above the trees, but the primary witness
thought that it illuminated the tree line. Both witnesses observed the object
through binoculars, and followed it from the south to southeast, where they
eventually lost sight of it.
Sighting Date: 5/2/83 7am CST, and 9am CST (MPLS)
Sighting Location: near Fountain, MN, and Mpls., MN
In regards to the cylinder shaped object, the case in my file states the
person that saw the cylinder was looking out the right side of the car
through the windows as the car was heading west. The sighting was near a
cellular tower a couple miles east of Fountain, Minnesota. (30-35 miles
south of Rochester, Mn). The sighting was at approximately 7 a.m. There
was other traffic on the road at the time but there have been no further
reports from anyone else. My source is also an anonymous witness, which
puts me in the same boat you are. Estimated distance from the tower about
1 mile north. Size estimated in excess of 100 yards at this distance.
Nose was tilted down at a slight angle. Total time of sighting approximately
30 seconds. This cannot be an isolated case. Do you have any more cases
of sightings in this particular area? Strange lights are common in the area.
I myself am in independent investigator and have been for 20+ years.
Phil
"JPMWJ Inc."
Also:
>From: France OVNI
>
>This is a demand of information:
>
>A correspondent desiring to keep the anonymity temporarily, has signalled
>me a sighting whose it has been the witness it 2 May 1983 to Minn�apolis -
>Minn�sota - USA. The witness is French and was in professional
>displacement, when it to see the takeoff of 3 UFO to 9h00 of the morning
>(size approximately 700 meters of long). It asserts equally to have
>observed a helicopter of the US army with a soldier that filmed the scene
>of takeoff. The source of the testimony being unreliable, since it
>anonymous I ask you if you have had knowledge a such history on that date
>and to this place. Thank you advance for your replies.
>
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Subject: Re: UFO Osceola or Dresser, Wi mid/late 80's or early 90's
While visiting our friends in Osceola, Wisconsin she told us about a UFO
landing which occurred on the border between Dresser and Osceola. All I know
is that a UFO landed behind Trollhaugen Ski resort sometime in the mid 80's
to early 90's. There were witnesses at the trap rock plant called Dresser
Trap Rock in Dresser and also news articles in the Dresser and Osceola
newspapers.
(There are reports for Dresser, WI for the dates of 3/22/78, and sometime in
Sept 79. Osceola, WI sometime in summer of 1983, sometime in December of 1980,
and again on 3/22/78.)
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 12/1/1983 02:00 (Entered as : 12/83 02:00 am)
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Madison, WI
Shape : Unknown
Object moving slowly down a row of homes. Crossed boulevard and disappeared over
warehouse. drove under it thinking it a police helicopter dowing surveilance. Very disturbing
and panicked when eyes met driver of on coming traffic who witnessed same.
Ok, so it bothers you're web site doesn't make any mention of this because it was in the local
paper the following day as having been witnessed by a cop patroling Milwaukee Street.
Anyway as for my experience I was coming home from the Univ of Wisc Madison's library
and it was late and very cold out. I pull up to the light going northbound on Johnson Street
(just past Tenney park near the police repair shop and old paint warehouses) and about 15
feet above the roof of this house down Johnson Street on my right is this thing. It was black,
but appeared illuminated - kinda dim like - underneath. I didn't think much about it. Thought it
was probably a police helicopter searching the neighborhood for some East High School punks.
But it kept my attention cause it wasn't really a spot light eminanting shining down into backyards.
Also it didn't have any blinking helicopter like lights on top. What ever it was doing it was
moving slow, steady and smooth and kept following over the row of roofs. From what I could
see it look like a rounded off van with a fat base. My light changed and I started on my way
about the same time the "helicopter" finished with the roofs and was headed across the street.
A lot of observations started coming real fast as I approached to go under it. It was about
15 feet off the ground. It was uniform in its black color but had definite seams. No windows.
The one distinct feature I remember the most was a cross like seam (real pronounced like) on
its belly. This is about when all the contradictions started pooring in. First off, there was loose
snow - if it was a helicopter how come it wasn't kicking up snow? And the bushes in the
boulevard - they didn't twitch like they were caught in any chopper wash either. I remember
shutting the heater off and coasting without the gas peddle down so I could hear the helicopter.
Helicopters are noisy but none of the houses had woken up, and I wasn't hearing anything
and I was right underneath it. And I felt kinda funny passing underne! ath it. The car reacted
like it was mildly buffeted by helicopter wash and I can recall kinda of a slow down. And
something was wrong about the illumination it was casting down. The light was dim but clear
and the shrub branches kind of reflected like hotdogs under a heat lamp at the gas station.
So I realize now somethings fundamentally wrong. I take my foot of the gas and this thing
rises slowly to pass over the warehouse just beyond the oncoming lane's traffic. I'm borderline
freaking out and so this guy in this big vanilla colored older model chevy (the kind that seats
about twenty) is coming at me in the oncoming traffic lane and he's got his face like smashed
up against the windshield over his steering wheel looking real hard at what ever the thing
was. And he gives me this blank big eyed look. After that I this wasn't right and went right
into an adreniline pump that kept me pacing when I got home for at least a half an hour.
The next day it was the newspaper being reported as mussing around on the far east side.
I really try not to talk about this. And if I'm not sure I think I entered this same experience
into this web site before - it feels good to say something.
1/25/1989 MINNEAPOLIS, MN. 6:15 A NL Multiple witness
Green light, possible meteors, seen over 12 hr. period? No sound. XXXX
1/XX/1989 N WEST BEND, WI Midnite CE1 Multiple witness
Boomerang, hovered near railroad tracks. No sound. 15 min.
1/10/1989 APPLETON, WI. Night CE1 Multiple witness.
Three large bright white lights moving in a straight line, observed
by pilot and co-pilot of small plane flying at 7000 feet. Lights
turned off and on in sequence.
1/13/1989 SUN PRARIE, WI. 8:25 PM CE1 Multiple witness.
Triangular shaped object with six bright lights in front, 1 1/2
football fields wide, 1000 feet altitude. Over roadway 30 to 45
seconds. No sound heard.
1/17/1989 FENNIMORE, WI. 7:00 PM NL Multiple witness.
Twelve to fifteen lights. Several reports to Sheriff Dept. No sound.
3/18/1989 CUDAHY, WI. 8:45 PM CE1 Single witness
Gray cigar-shaped object almost overhead, surrounded by shimmering
lite. Craft about 1000 ft. in air. Went into vertical climb and left
in seconds. Duration: 10 seconds.
8/10/1989 MILWAUKEE, WI. 3:30 AM NL 2 wit. No sound 25 min.
Terrified couple, fishing on waters near Omro saw object fall, hover.
1/29/1989 WELLMAN, IA. 9:00 P NL 01 witness
Huge dark mass, flanked by two beacons, lit by a halo. No sound. Brief.
9/XX/1989 XXXX, IOWA XXXX TC XX Not appl.
Seen on A CURRENT AFFAIR. Farmer found rings in field.
10/XX/1989 CUMMING, IA. Night CE1 1 wit. No sound 10 min.
Object over fisherman at 600', size of truck or house.
10/11/1989 FYLINE, IA. Night NL MW No sound XXXX
Several sightings of strange lights near Missouri border.
10/17/1989 DAVIS COUNTY, IA. Night NL MW No sound XXXX
Possibly Venus.
1/28/1989 STOCKBRIDGE, MI. XXXX NL Multiple witness
Super large craft w/bright blue lites on perimeter. No sound. XXXX
1/04/1989 THREE RIVERS, MI. 8:30 PM NL Single witness
Three "Tylenol-caplet" shaped objects flying at high speed. No sound.
2/XX/1989 THREE RIVERS, MI. 9:15 PM NL Single witness
Three "Tylenol-caplet" shaped objects. Same as 1/4/89. No sound.
2/03/1989 RAVENNA, MI. 2:45 AM CE2 Multiple witness.
Big bright fireball type object approached to 50 yards of car at tree-
top level. Fireball went out leaving dark mass with red, green, &
white lights. When car moved, object moved and vice versa. Played for
15 to 20 minutes, then moved away at high speed. No sound.
5/10/1989 FARMINGTON HILLS, MI. Midnite CE2 Two witnesses
Large greenish-silver dasc-shaped object, turned on end and paced car
for about two hours. Car radio stopped working and electrical system
quit working.
9/11/1989 KALAMAZOO, MI. 9:15 PM CE2 +3 wit.
No sound 15 min. Object with stubby wings near nose. Tubes and
pipes seen. Hovered.
Courtesy of: Barbara Becker, UFO RESEARCH NETWORK, Fran Ridge, UFO FILTER CTR.,
Bob Gribble, PHENOMENA RESEARCH
SUBJECT: ELYSIAN, MINNESOTA SIGHTING REPORT
Event 03/15/89, near Elysian, Minnesota. Investigator Bill McNeff.
While driving home a woman came upon a 30-foot display of lights
hovering about 50 feet over a ditch. She came to a halt and watched
for several minutes but discerned only lights. They consisted of two
rows of alternating red and green, blinking in succession, and two
red lights above. Becoming frightened, she drove a short distance to
the home of a friend. They returned but found nothing.
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 11/15/1987 23:00 (Entered as : 11/?/87 23:00)
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Crivitz, WI
Shape : Unknown
Green light spotted above trailer. Footsteps leading to trailer, door opened and footsteps
came toward bdrm door. Door opened slightly, shadow of figure was seen against wall.
Large head, skinny body. Door then shut, footsteps ran out door, then green light
disappeared.
No object was seen as it was hovering above camper.This experience happened to my
(late) uncle over ten years ago but his wife still lives in Crivitz. She heard it first hand from
him so she would most likely have more information.
SUBJECT: LIGHT CLUSTERS IN DULUTH, MINN. SKY
Date: 13-Dec-86 14:23 MST
From: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]
Subj: APmn 12/13 UFO Sighting
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- A police officer says he and his partner
"felt a little funny" reporting an unexplained cluster of lights
in the night sky east of this northeastern Minnesota city.
"We felt better after we heard we weren't the only ones seeing
things," said officer Paul Stein after filing his "unidentified
sighting" to police headquarters. In fact, numerous northern
Minnesota residents reported seeing the lights around 1:25 a.m.
Friday. In all, Duluth police reported nine sightings Friday
morning of the object, which Stein described as a "cluster of
white and yellow lights with a large conical fiery tail that split
into three tails, then just vanished." But soon, the unidentified
flying object had a probable identity: debris from a Soviet satellite
re-entering the earth's atmosphere,according to a spokesman with the
U.S. Space Command. "I figured they would come up with a scientific
reason eventually," Stein said. "But I wish the suspense and romance
of it all could have lasted a little longer." People as far away
as Solon Springs, Wis., about 30 miles southeast of Duluth, and the
Air National Guard in Fargo, N.D., also reported seeing the object.
Stein said the object traveled in a horizontal direction for about
90 seconds. Police Lt. Beverly Ecklund said Stein's report was
relayed to the National Unidentified Flying Object Reporting Center
in Seattle, a privately operated center devoted to UFO research
since 1973. But Stein said he doesn't doubt that what he saw was
the satellite debris. The timing and location were too close for
coincidence, he said. Del Kindschi, a spokesman for the U.S. Space
Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., confirmed that a piece of a
Russian Soyuz T-11 satellite entered the atmosphere above northeastern
Minnesota at the same time Stein reported seeing the object. "The
debris entered the atmosphere over Lake Superior about 1:30 Friday
morning and eventually disintegrated over eastern Pennsylvania,"
Kindschi said. The main satellite, launched in 1984, re-entered the
atmosphere later that year, Kindschi said. Dave Teske, a planetarium
assistant at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, said the object may
have been part of a spectacular meteor shower called the Geminids
which is streaking through the sky and should be visible through the
weekend. Teske said Stein's description of how the tail split and
then disappeared is consistent with a meteor burning up when it hits
the Earth's atmosphere. "Very often the meteor explodes and the pieces
blaze for a few seconds before they disintegrate," Teske said.
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 11/20/1985 (Entered as : 11/20/85 unknown)
Posted : 2/16/1999
Location : South Milwaukee, WI
Shape : Light
Two massive booms which shook the windows followed by a bright light wich flew
across sky then reversed course headed back the way it came
I remeber this event clearly. I was in the up stairs living room watching "Ernest Saves
Christmas" when I heard a noise which shook the windows. I got up and looked out the
window. It was snowing heavly out side but I could see a bright light fly east from lake
Michigan. There was another massive boom that shook the windows then the object
reversed course without stopping and flew back from were it had come from. The entire
instance spanded for maybe only 8 to 10 seconds.
This sighting from Houston, MN: MA1/CE1 Sighting July 1985 (exact date unknown).
At approximately midnight of the night of the sighting, the witness was walking
home from a dance when she noticed a light hovering in a field at the edge of
town. Judging from the location of the light in relaton to a distant line of
trees, she estimated that the object was 25 to 50 feet off of the ground and was
less approximately 3 to 5 blocks away. The light appeared as a search light,
shining down on the field, with no other associated lighting. It moved slowly
to the north, then (smoothly) turned to the east and followed the Root River,
where it was lost to sight. It made little or no apparent sound.
Currently investigating noise characteristics of helicopters, perhaps in a
police or DNR role, as a possible explanation. Any other ideas are welcome.
(Submitted by Craig Lang, Minnesota MUFON FI)
September 20, 1980 - Scandia, MINNESOTA
Michelle Freudenberg was driving home to white Bear Lake at about 2 a.m.
when she encountered a lighted object in the sky. It was estimated to be
30 to 50 feet long, 10 to 12 feet high and about 8 feet off the ground.
The disc-shaped object was vaguely outlined by red and white lights. She
watched the disc for about 8 seconds before it passed over a nearby hill
and disappeared. The witness recalls noticing a pungent odor in the air
at the time of the sighting. This is the latest sighting in an area that
has been the scene of repeated observations in the past. On July 25, Mary
Lou Simonson and her son, Randall, observed a disc-shaped object estimated
at 40 feet wide and 10 feet thick, with a pattern of red and white lights.
APRO Bulletin, 1981
****
September 17, 1980 - Ghent, MINNESOTA
Lyon County Undersheriff Tom Thompson was called from his sleep at 4:27
a.m. to investigate an object reported hovering over a farm 3 1/2 miles
west of Ghent. The farmer said he had been watching the object for a half
an hour when he decided to call the sheriff's department. He said the object
changed color, from red to yellowish-white, as it moved with him. When he
went towards his parent's house it kept pace, staying about one mile away.
In his report, Thompson said he noticed a very bright object that appeared
to be much closer than the stars. Upon reaching the farm, the officer
watched the object for about 30 minutes as it appeared to move closer,
back and forth, north and south, and at times nearly disappear. The farmer
added that at one point it moved to within a half mile of the farm and his
dog began barking and running toward the object. Thompson said the light
seemed to keep pace with his vehicle as he drove back to Marshall. It
hovered over the town for about 5 minutes and then moved off in a
northeasterly direction.
APRO Bulletin, 1981
****
More Scandia, MN:
On August 14, 1980, Kelly Brott observed a small red light above a field at
about 11 p.m. The light moved closer and she ran into the house for her
father. Several moments later a brother and friend called Kelly and Brott
to a nearby field where they watched the red light join with others and
"play tag" in the sky.
APRO Bulletin, 1981
****
MINNESOTA April 17, 1980 - Sauk Center Duane Weiner stepped out of his
mother's house at 2:30 a.m. to supervise delivery of the Minneapolis
Tribune and heard an "energetic sound.. all around me. The sound was
described like that from an electrical wire lying on the ground or an
arc welder at a distance. Weiner looked up and saw a glowing orange sphere
about 100 feet off the ground. The sphere moved back and forth, southwest
to northeast, rotating as it moved, and spewing tiny bits of matter as
it spun. A few minutes later, the object shifted west, continued its
diagonal motion, and moved erratically off into space until it was only
a dim point of light. By the time the object left, Weiner was 15 minutes
late for his distribution duties.
July, 1980, The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, page 7
****
January 13, 1980 - Red Wing, MN
Five women observed what they described as a flashing triangle of lights
above the Seminary Nursing Home about 9 p.m. Brenda Simanski and Janine
Mattson had left work at exactly 9 p.m. and were waiting at the parking
lot for Brenda's mother to pick her up when they noticed a "star going
berserk" about 50 degrees from the horizon.Although it appeared to be
moving slowly, Brenda said it was overhead in no more than 2 minutes.
The two became frightened and hid in Janine's car while the object hovered
for from 15 to 30 seconds above a 50 foot oak tree. When it was directly
above them they noticed two "egg-shaped lights, similar to spotlights, on
either side of the front white light." Another worker punched out at
exactly 9:03 p.m. and remembers seeing the identical triangle of lights
which she said looked slightly larger than a Lear Jet. Janine and Brenda
dashed back inside to get more witnesses and Kathy Clemens and Mary Huron
returned outside with them. Kathy said the two "egg-shaped" lights described
by Brenda were not on when she first saw it, but when they turned on they
looked to her like "big heat-lamps". The five watched as the lights moved
slowly on a north-northwest course at the same elevation and then suddenly
disappeared. Mary said, "In the blink of an eye it was gone." The five all
drew sketches of the object and they all showed a triangle of white,
red and blue lights with the only discrepancy being the lack of a red light
between the two rear blue lights in one of the drawings. None of the
witnesses heard any sound from the object at any time.
APRO Bulletin, March 1980
Sightings from 1990 thru 1994
National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 6/15/1990 23:00
Reported : 3/28/1998 08:25
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : columbia hieghts, MN
Shape : Unknown
Something floated by me, no sound, no wind!
Of course everyone asked what I was on, nothing I've only told 4-5
people this. Warm summer night, clear skies no wind at all. I was
bringing out the garbage out to the ally no one was around, dead
quiet. I lived on a corner lot at the time so I could see two blocks
in either direction. I was looking up and around at the stars when
standing east I caught something in the corner of my eye. About a
block to my right five or ten feet over the tree tops which were
around tweny five to thirty feet up was this thing. It floated in a
absolute straight line past me very slow 2-3 miles per hour. I was
about five feet from the ally. It was lightly illuminated in a
yellowish color, with a black corner to corner stripe about 1.5-2
feet wide. The thing was about the size of a VW bug. There were no
edges, seems or anything protruding from it. Ten or so feet long,
six or so feet wide. The closest thing I can come up with is the
movie of Star Trek were they put spock into a casket and sent him
to some planet. It's shape was quite quite similar. I heard no
sound from it, no traffic anywhere at all. This was on a Sunday night.
I watched it go past me straight down the ally and out of site. I
stood there wondering what the hell was that, nothing can do that. I
looked around to see if maybe someone else was around but nobody was
there. I don't know what it was, I do remember I had an eerie sense
about it. Has anyone else seen this? I know it's weird but the more
I've thought of this thing for the past seven years, I have a strange
feeling it was some sort of probe, crazy huh? Well thats about it
thanks for listening.
Occurred : 12/24/1990 21:00
Location : WAYZATA, MN
Shape : Light
Summary :
ON DECEMBER 24 1990 MY GRANDPA WAS DRIVING ME HOME FROM A
CHRISTMAS PARTY AND ABOUT 3/4 OF A MILE AWAY FROM HIS HOUSE
HE SAW LIGHTS IN THE SKY. HE PULLED OVER OFF HIGHWAY 12 AND
WE WATCHED THE LIGHTS JUST SIT THERE FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES.
HE PUT THE WINDOW DOWN AND WE LISTED AND WE COULDN'T HEAR
ANYTHING. THEN HE PUT THE WINDOW UP BECAUSE IT WAS SO COLD.
WE WATCHED AND WATCHED. IT JUST SAT THERE SILENT AND IT
DIDN'T MOVE. I THINK THAT THERE WERE 14 LIGHTS. MY GRANDPA
TOLD ME IT WAS PROBABLY SANTA CLAUSE AND I BELIEVED HIM UNTIL
I STARTED TO HEAR ABOUT UFO's. I COULD ONLY SEE LIGHTS. THERE
WAS A THIN CLOUD COVER AND IT WAS DARK OUT SIDE SO I COULD
NOT SEE THE OBJECT. THE LIGHTS WERE SO BRIGHT THEY WERE ABOUT
THE SIZE OF MY HAND. THEY WERE NOT IN ANY PATTERN. THEY WERE
JUST SCATTERED ABOUT THE SKY. THEY WERE NOT STARS I CAN TELL
YOU THAT. THEY WERE FAR TOO LARGE AND BRIGHT. AFTER ABOUT 15
MIN MY GRANDPA PULLED BACK ON TO THE ROAD AND WE LEFT. (NUFORC)
SUBJECT: BEMIJDI, MINNESOTA UFO SIGHTING ARTICLE
September 11, 1990
Taken from: The Pioneer, Bemidji, Minnesota, Friday, August 31, 1990
Witnesses marvel at mystery objects
by Pat Miller, Staff Writer
It seems that Bemidji wasn't the lone city on the path of last weeks
unexpected visitor from the sky as craft of similar description were
sighted in every corner of the area.
Reports of sightings have surfaced from Park Rapids, Clearbrook,
Laporte, Zerkel and Turtle River and the common threads among the
varying accounts are the lack of noise and the shape.
Between 9:30 and 10 p.m. last Thursday [August 23, 1990] Dick
McLaurie of Bemidji and his son Tony were heading home from a
fishing excursion east of Blackduck when they saw the craft near
Castle Highlands Golf Course.
We saw them approaching us from the direction of Bemidji and we
pulled over to watch the show, said McLaurie. They were about one-
quarter of a mile away from us and one-quarter of a mile in the air
and we watched them for about three or four minutes.
What McLaurie saw was at least five different objects shaped like
the bullet with wings that Julie Knutson described last week. The
objects sported a series of light and they all traveled together in
a convoy formation.
There were five or six different vehicles flying in a group,
McLaurie recalled. At first they were moving slowly but then they
started sparking and sped up. All of a sudden all the lights went
out and the things really took off in the direction of Blackduck.
They certainly moved faster than any plane I've ever seen.
At 9:50 that same evening Tom Crissinger of Northward Ho Resort on
Long Lake near Park Rapids was among a group of about 14 people who
saw a similar display.
They looked like the space shuttle and were about the size of a big
jet. But they didn't make any noise, Crissinger said. They trailed
balls of something like fire about a mile long and over the lake
they were easy to see. We also saw about 20 square windows on the
side (of the craft) and we kept asking each other if anybody else
saw the windows. And everyone did.
The objects continued over the lake in the direction of Bemidji and
followed a slowly ascending course.
Greg Gasman of rural Laporte also witnessed the show from his back
yard between 9:30 and 10 p.m. His immediate attention was on an
airplane he could clearly hear and see high in the sky but when his
gaze returned earthward it was interrupted by the sight of three
unusual visitors low to the ground.
They were almost touching each other and each one had front lights
and back lights, he said. The silhouette of each was of a long
cylindrical object and they were traveling in a convoy.
Unlike the other reports which had the craft heading in a
northeasterly direction, Gasman's objects traveled from the
southeast to the northwest.
They were heading straight for Bemidji and going northwest, he said.
What surprised me the most was that there were no sparks, no sign of
what propelled them, and they made no noise. It was a very quiet
night but still they didn't make a sound.
____________
Additional articles appeared in The Pioneer on August 26, 28, and 30
with similar information.
Other persons sighting the craft were Wayne Bitz and Dave Mathisen
of Bemidji, Diane Wagner from the east side of Big Bass Lake, and
Jami Knutson, 11-year-old daughter of Julie Knutson of Bemidji, and
NORAD tracked the object on radar.
____________
Here is an interesting quote from the August 28 story:
"The official word on the mysterious lights which were visible
over the Bemidji area Thursday night is (probably) a returning
rocket body that decayed in space and reentered the
atmosphere."
That explanation was offered by Major David Griffard of the North
American Air Defense Command based at Peterson Air Force Base near
Colorado Springs, Colo.
He said he cannot disclose other information about the rocket but
said NORAD received calls from Minnesota, South Dakota, North
Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Trinidad about the object.
A spokesman from the Grand Forks Air Base said that no planes from
that base were in the air Thursday evening and the objects the
Knutson's saw did not have their roots at the base.
SUBJECT: FLAMING UFO CRASHES INTO DULUTH HARBOR
005/005 03 Jan 91 13:26:38
From: Pete Porro
To: Frank Ward
****** FLAMING UFO CRASHES INTO DULUTH HARBOR 1 - 2 - 91
ABOUT 3:30 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1991, A NURSE AT
MILLER-DWAN MEDICAL CENTER IN DULUTH, MINNESOTA SAW A FIERY BALL
DROP OUT OF THE SKY INTO DULUTH HARBOR ON LAKE SUPERIOR, AND
WATCHED IT MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE BAY TOWARD SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
SEVERAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES WITNESSESED THE EVENT, AND ONE WAS
INTERVIEWED ON A LOCAL TV NEWS PROGRAM ON KDLH-TV IN DULUTH. HE
WAS OBVIOUSLY MOVED BY THE EXPERIENCE - HIS EYES WERE TEARING - AND
HE COMMENTED IT WAS "EXCITING" TO VIEW "A VISIT FROM ANOTHER PLANET".
ONE WITNESS DESCRIBED THE SIZE OF THE OBJECT AS THAT OF A DIME HELD
AT ARM'S LENGTH, FROM THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE HOSPITAL WITH A "PERFECT
VIEW", ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT A MILE AWAY FROM THE IMPACT IN THE
HARBOR. THE TV REPORT INDICATED THAT THE DULUTH COAST GUARD SAW
NOTHING, AND A GROUND SEARCH FOR THE BURNING OBJECT PRODUCED NO
RESULTS. THE HEADLINE IN THE JANUARY 3 DULUTH NEWS-TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER
WAS "COAST GUARD CONDUCTS SEARCH, FAILS TO FIND REPORTED UFO" AND
WAS ATTRIBUTED TO PETTY OFFICER KAYPRO (SP?), AND THE DULUTH AIR
TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTER REPORTED NO RADAR CONTACT, ACCORDING TO THE
PAPER. NONE OF THE NETWORK-AFFILIATED TV STATIONS IN MINNEAPOLIS-ST.
PAUL CARRIED THE STORY ON THEIR 10:00 PM NEWSCASTS - TWO OF THEM
DIDN'T EVEN KNOW OF THE REPORTS. DULUTH IS ABOUT 150 MILES NORTH OF
THE TWIN CITIES.
UPLOADED BY STEVE BEATTY IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 3, 1991
(C) UFONET 1991
Subject: UFO report Northfield, MN 1991
Date/time of sighting: April or May, 1991
Location of sighting: Northfield, MN
Hello, My name is Stephen Gower and I have a MN UFO report to make.
The event happened 6 years ago, but it's still vivid in my memory..
It was an event that triggered an intense interest in UFO's that
continues to this day. Part of the reason I'm reporting this is
that for one, I always thought I should tell someone about it, and
secondly, it seems surprisingly similar to some other reports that
I read on the MN mufon page.
In 1991 I was a senior at St. Olaf college in Northfield,MN. The
following was witnessed by me, and at least 4 of my good friends.
There were maybe 1 or 2 more
people there, but I don't remember. I'll recall the event as best
I can. It was my senior year and I know it was very close to
graduation time, so I believe the event occured some night in April
or perhaps May of 1991. I was dark but it hadn't been dark very
long.. I'd guess it was 9:00. A group of us were in my friends
apartment (Lincoln Parkway apartments) when one of my friends called
us out to the second story balcony of the apartment. "hey guys check
this out.. are these UFO's or something?" We went out of the desk
and there were several lights about 40-45 degrees above the horizon
(from our perspective).. These lights were moving fairly slowly in
our general direction.. as them moved closes they seemed to be
following each other, one after the other.. I would call it a
"string" of lights..there were a good 6 or maybe 7 of them. I'm
almost certain that these lights were moving independantly of each
other and were not part of a single, huge object.
The lights were a deep, amber red... I'm fairly certain the red
lights were on continually and were bright.. in addition, each
"craft" also had what I remember to be several strobes blinking in
a repeating, irregular, odd pattern.. not like the once every 3
second strobes of an airplane. the repeating strobe pattern (of
maybe seven individual blinks) that each craft had repeated I would
guess every second or so.. I got the impression that these lights
were fairly close to us.. and the size of each was maybe the size
of a small plane.. (20 feet diameter each?) I didn't notice any
sounds from these lights.
I actually got the cordless phone and called my roomate (who was
in my apartment in the next building) and told him to go out on
the balcony and look at what we were seeing.. I asked him what he
thought they were and he said "I don't know... a train??" which
was obviously not the case because trains don't fly, and these
things were definitely in the air. But the lights were "train
like".. one following the other.. blinking their weird lights..
the distance between these lights in this string was not far..
They seems to be much closer together than what I would think to
be a safe distance.. a couple years later I noticed a formation
of helicopters flying, one after the other, and I took note that
the distance between the helicopters was much farther apart than
the lights that we say. Actually, I do remember that the noise
of a train going by on nearby track was audible at the time..
this may have also been what caused my friend to give "train" as
an explaination. If there were any sound of the craft, the train
noise may have gotten in the way of us hearing anything).. But had
it been 6 cesnas that close, I really think I would have heard
the engines.
Still watching the lights, I called the police on the phone I was
holding.. the woman who answered said "Oh, you know what those
are.. they're ultralight aircraft". This I doubted. I had seen
ultralight aircraft in the area before. But never to my knowledge
at night.. and never flying in formation.. and the crazy blinking
pattern of these lights was unlike anything I had seen on any
airplane before.. Seeing one of these things would have been
curious, but It's possible that I may have just dismissed it as
a plane that had odd lights.. but I doubt it.. these things were
weird, and there were 6 or seven of them! Interestingly, the
police-lady I was talking to told me that in a neary by town
(Fairbault) there had been a newspaper story of some UFO sightings
a week or so previous to the night I was talking to her. (more
about this later). The lights continued closer and closer to us
and seemed to get lower.. slowly, the lights drifted past us to
our left.. and from our perspective they disappeared along the
tree line.. Now these lights were not hovering at the tree line..
from the deck we were standing on, there was a few trees to our
left.. and the lights which were obviously past the trees appeared
in the sky somewhat near the area of sky that the tops of the trees
occupied.. What a lousy description.. I hope you understand what
I mean.
After the initial string of lights disappeard to our left.. it seems
like a couple minutes past.. and then we looked up and saw another
single craft appear in the some location in the sky that the initial
group appeared.. it moves slowly along, following the path that the
other lights took.. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember this one
being slightly different.. I believe it was smaller, but perhaps it
wasn't. It had similar red lights and blinking strobes.
The entire sighting lasted I would estimate to be 6 minutes.. I
later regretted not getting out of the building and going out in
the field past the trees to see if I could continue to see the
lights, but to be honest, I was scared.. The next day I called
the Fairbault newspaper and asked about the article that had been
printed. The reporter verified that he had in fact written an
article that discussed a couple of sightings in that area. I
believe he mentioned that someone had seen a strange light shining
a beam down or something like that. he also mentioned some farmer
that apparantely had a sighting.. and this guy had had sightings
in years past and even had experienced cattle mutilations. The
reported took my name and we talked about him possibly writing a
new story talking about our sightings.. but I didn't pursue it and
neither did he so nothing ever happened.
I also called the FAA and not surprisingly they weren't helpful.
You may have seen the video of the Phoenix lights.. This reminded
me somewhat of what we saw..how the lights appeared in a row. But
the lights in that video seemed white, not red. The lights we saw
were somewhat closer to each other than the lights in that video.
Ever since then, I've looked to the sky and never seen anything like
it. I've proably spent hundreds of hours thinking about this.. have
watched every ufo show I could find (btw, I enjoyed the Fox special
this evening). I've also read about 20 UFO books.
So this thing that happend so long ago really had a large impact on
me. When I get together with these friends from time to time, I've
asked them about it and they all seemed just as puzzled and continue
to think the event was pretty weird.
I know this report lacks certain important information (exact time,
date) but I've done the best I can. What I do know is that these
were definitely, without question, intelligently controlled craft,
not balls of light, way off in the distance, but lights that were
close and sharp. Had it been daylight, I'm certain I could
describe the shape of these craft, but it was just dark enought
that we could only see the lights of the craft, not the body shape
of what these lights were attached to. If these craft were man made,
they were unlike anything any of the five of us ever recall seeing
before or since.
I just looked at a map of Northfield and if I have my orientation
correct about how the apartments were laid out, I believe that this
string of lights we saw moved roughly in an east to west path.
Stephen Gower
7/1/91 22:00
Mulliken, MI
Disc
On the night of a meteor shower around 6-8 years ago from this date,
a friend and I witness what we believe was 4 unidentified spacecraft.
6/1/91 19:00
Troy, MI
Disk
My wife 34,son 10 and his grandmother, 68, saw a disk shaped
object with lights hovering .5-1 mile up in the air near 14 mile and I-75w.
6/15/1992 20:00 (Entered as : 2 weeks)
Location : River Falls, WI
Shape : Triangle
SUMMARY: I and my brother were sitting on swings in a school
playground when a triangular shaped object appeared.
It was around 8 o'clock pm (20:00) and my brother and I
were sitting on swings in the Rocky Branch Elementry School
playground, waiting for some of our friends. It was dark out
but the lights from the school lit up the playground. Corn
fields were on 3 sides of the school and a street to the other.
We were sitting and talking when suddenly the silence behind
us stopped. We heard a soft humming like the sound the comes
from one of those green power boxes (the big ones with the
large hinges) Then a large triangular shaped object came
from behind us (to the south). It was about 100 ft. off the
ground. It had yellow flashing lights on each point. It stayed
above us for about 2-3 mins then rapidly accelerated back to
the south over a mountain. After it burst away a very bright
light shone for about a half a second. (NUFORC)
This is from a 1992 sighting (with photo) in St. Paul, MN.
The UFO image below was photographed above north St. Paul, MN in 1992. The photographer
wants an explanation as to what it is and did anyone else see it. Please e-mail Minnesota MUFON
(see below or contacts page if you can add to this sighting. An article on this sighting appeared in
Sept. 92 Fate magazine.
(Witness identity withheld pending permission).
Click here for UFO photo image.
Beam Me Up, Scotty, summer 1992
In the summer of 1992, a Black Hawk couple were sitting in their
backyard sometime after dark. The husband said in jest, �Beam me up,
Scotty.� Suddenly, above the house was a black triangular shaped craft with
3 lights on the bottom. The wife said it was very low, perhaps 3 feet above
the house. It slowly drifted over the other houses, it�s tips extending over
the edges of the roof tops. She said the craft was noiseless and that she
and her husband were speechless. The craft drifted slowly in the direction
of Nemo where it eventually went out of sight. According to the wife, her
husband now refuses to usher the words, �Beam me up, Scotty,� as he
associates them with the sudden appearance of the craft.
Hart Ranch, 2/92
In February of 1992, a ranch couple and their teenage daughter were
returning home to the Hermosa area from a Stock Show in Rapid City. They
were traveling south on highway 79 when at 9:30 p.m. they saw a large,
brightly lit object west of the highway in the area of the Hart Ranch
Resort. It was moving very slow at approx. 1000 feet altitude. The rancher
pulled to the side of the highway and shut off his vehicle. He got out to
get a better view of the craft, mother and daughter stayed in the pickup.
The object was approx. 2000 feet from their location when they stopped. The
craft was slowly moving east as it crossed the highway in front of them.
They described it as having white lights along the bottom that were so
bright they had to look away at times because the lights hurt their eyes.
They noticed 3 parallel solid lines of light that ran the entire length of
the craft. They were pink in color and were about 10 feet apart. They
estimated the craft as being 3 stories high, the solid pink lights seemed to
separate the stories, and it was at least 100 feet in length. The craft was
completely silent, the witnesses seemed very disturbed about their sighting
and refuse to make any further statements. While the craft passed in front
of them, the mother locked the doors and was yelling for her husband to get
back in the pickup.
National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 5/17/1993 22:30
Reported : 5/21/1998 19:52
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Northfield, MN
Shape : Oval
Oval luminous object traveling north at tremendous speed. Elongated
at accelleration. Was not transparent. Sky: unlimited, clear
visibility.
My daughter (14) and I were in the front yard talking. It was 10:30
pm and the sky was absolutely clear with stars evrywhere. Suddenly
my daughter said "what's that". Looking over my shoulder there was
an oval light source approx. 30 ft in diameter about 40 - 50 feet
above our house. It was not transparent as it blotted out the star
field. As soon as both of us were focused on it the object elongated
and streaked due north toward Minneapolis (40 mi away). It vanished
over the horizon in 2-3 seconds. I served 2 1/2 yrs in the 2d Marine
Air Wing and have experience w/aircraft of all types. This was
unknown. At no time did it fall to the earth..but traveled a parallel
path w/ the terrain.
Submitted by Craig Lang, Minnesota MUFON FI
UFO sighting: 2/3/93, Central Minnesota.
Interviewing a long-term experiencer, whom I will call "Donna". The overall
experiences have been occurring since about 1979 but she has had a series of
well defined sightings (CE1, possible CE4) over the last five years. These
include one which occurred on Feb 3, 1993, which may correspond to the Afton, MN
sighting of that time frame.
The witness is married and has several children, of whom one or more have had
experiences. The whole family has experienced miscellaneous anomalous events
over this extended time period.
From: Dale Stonehouse
Subject: Re: UFO sighting (4/93)
> Those who rationalize that the incidents were the result of secret
> stealth new toys of the USAF, should be asked: Stealth with lights ON?
> Absolutely noiseless? Slowing to speeds of only 35MPH? Altitudes of
> only hundreds of feet?
Well, Doc, that is a perfect description of a single craft I saw right
here in St. Cloud, MN on an April night back in 1993. But I would add
one thing - they can also hang in the air like a picture on the wall,
absolutely and I mean absolutely, motionless.
Stealth craft do have lights and can turn them on any time they want -
especially if they WANT TO BE SEEN. What fun is it to be invisible if
you're invisible all the time? The one I saw had three lights on the
bottom, thus the "triangular" description that could be a misnomer from
what I saw.
Stoney
Even though this craft did not obey the laws of gravity, I personally
did not consider it to be a non-terrestrial craft. Nonconventional yes,
but these have been seen by so many people now it is either secret
military craft or the dumbest aliens in the universe. Don't mean to make
light of it, but it doesn't seem like these craft are much of a mystery.
Dale Stonehouse
St. Cloud, MN
8/12/93 22:30 Near Lake of the Woods (closest city Ashland - 30 mi.), OR
Light 3 luminous objects moving extremely fast, instant directional changes,
changed color My parents and I were observing the Perseid meteor shower.
(NUFORC)
National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 4/1/1994 20:00
Reported : 5/21/1998 20:09
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Faribault, MN
Shape : Fireball
Observed a green fireball flying 30 ft above and along a river. It
flew parallel to the terrain and emitted a long tall w/smoke &
sparks.
Stepped outside to have a smoke break from work. Was looking so.
When a green light suddenly flashed on over the Straight River. The
fireball was close enough to light the tops of the trees on either
side of the river. It traveled very slowly and parallel..so slow I
expected it to fall down..but it didn't. The color was flouescent
green and despite it being night I could see thick smoke trailing
as well as a shower of sparks. It was completely silent. After 2
seconds or so it suddenly just blinked off. I have not reported this
in the past since there was nowhere to report to. Thanks.
North of New Underwood, SD, 10/13/94
On Thursday, October 13, Don Kjerstad of Rapid City was driving west
on a gravel road about 12 miles north of New Underwood at approx. 9 p.m.
Upon cresting a hill, he saw an aircraft to the north of the gravel road. It
was about 3-400 feet in altitude and 120 to 150 yards from the road. Upon
first sight, Don thought the craft was moving to the east and expected it to
pass him on the right. As he drove closer, realized the craft was
stationary. He stopped and viewed the craft when he was directly south of
it. Don described the object as having 2 bright yellow-white lights on the
east side, like car lights on bright, and a red and green light on the other
side. The lights did not strobe or flash. He said it was hard to make out a
shape but could definitely tell that it was not a helicopter. He heard no
sound and felt no vibration. He said that from what he could see of the
craft exterior, it looked like �airplane metal where the light reflected off
of it.� He also thought he saw a short, rounded nose to the right of the
white lights on the east, the south side was too dark to see anything. Don
did not stay long as he was very frightened.
Don drove to the Visitors Center of Ellsworth AFB to report this
sighting. A spokesman for Public Relations told him that it was not in their
jurisdiction and that he should call someone in Civil Service. Don stated
that he was still shaking as he drove home, he decided not to make any more
calls, not to get involved.
Rapid City, Nemo Road, 11/1/94
On Tuesday, November 1, Nancy, the wife of a Major at Ellsworth AFB,
had an experience she will never forget. Her husband was in Roswell, NM on
maneuvers, Nancy was home alone with their 1 and 6 years old sons. They live
southwest of Rapid on Nemo road in a rural housing division.
Around 9 p.m. 2 of Nancy�s 3 dogs started barking and the puppy began
to run and bounce himself off the west living room window. She though the
puppy was going to hurt himself so she let her dogs out. After 10 minutes
they calmed down, so she let them back in. She said that this was very odd
behavior for the 2 dogs. Around 11:40 Nancy saw 2 bright lights in the sky
to the west of her home, like a car in the sky only the lights were
brighter. It took the craft 20 minutes to cover a 3-5 mile distance coming
right over her house. The only sound associated with the craft was a faint
mechanical �put-put� noise when it passed directly over her house. Nancy did
not see any other lights on the object, she watched it as it disappeared
behind a hill to the north of her house. Nancy is positive that it was not a
helicopter and stated that she has never seen any aircraft like it. During
this entire viewing, Nancy was in a panic, �frightened more than I can
describe.� At one point during this 20 minutes, she opened the garage door
and got the children and herself ready to leave.
After the craft was out of sight, she started to calm down and laid on
her couch to watch TV. Between 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. there were 2 loud thuds
on the roof of her house, right above the couch on which she was laying. The
thuds woke the baby and were strong enough to make plaster beads from the
ceiling fall on the couch and carpet. She described herself as being in an
absolute panic at this point, grabbed her sons and their blankets and in
their pj�s, drove to her sisters house at Ellsworth AFB. She sat and talked
to her sister about this incident for 2 hours, shaking uncontrollably. The
next morning when she got home, she found their 9 month old pet rabbit dead
in her cage. The rabbit remained wrapped in a towel on top of it�s cage for
4-5 weeks until her husband buried it in their yard. When Nancy lifted the
towel the day it was buried, she noticed that it had not started to
decompose.
On Sat. November 5th, Nancy�s 10 year old terrier viciously attacked
her 10 year old Samoyed, the Samoyed had to be put to sleep because of the
servere injuries. The Samoyed did not attempt to strike back at the terrier.
The 2 dogs had been raised together since puppies and the terrier had never
exhibited this sort of behavior before. The terrier acted completely normal
after the attack and vets that were called said they didn�t know what could
have triggered the attack.
(I have remained in close contact with Nancy since this incident in 1994.
Things haven�t been going well in her life. Her marriage broke up, her
husband retained custody of their 2 boys and bizarre incidents continue to
happen. She has very bad dreams of aliens, abduction experiences and there
is poltergeist type activity in her home. She was intuitive before this
incident and even more so now.)
Next to the Interstate, November 10, 1994
A Spearfish couple traveling on Interstate 90 between 5:30 and 6:00
p.m. near the Spearfish Airport reported witnessing a craft approx. 200
yards south of the interstate at an altitude of about 100 yards. They pulled
off to the side to view the object that sat there for 6-7 minutes. They
noted that other cars had pulled off behind them and seemed to be viewing
the same craft. It had 5 very bright white lights with one red light in the
middle, they could not make out the shape. After the 6-7 minutes it rose up
and headed off to the north at a very fast speed. They did not get out and
talk to the other witnesses.
report of 11/11/94
Vick and Dorothy Burckhard of Rapid City were driving north on
Interstate 90 at 4:45 p.m. At exit 51 just northwest of Black Hawk, SD, they
observed a dark gray, stationary craft low in the sky to the east of them
about 2-3 miles. It was oblong with a dome on top at one end, described as
large or larger than a B-52. Dorothy thought she saw a light upon first
spotting the craft but it wasn�t visible further into the sighting. Neither
witness saw wings or a tail structure to the object. The Burckhards did not
see the craft disappear or leave, they continued to drive to their
destination and eventually some hills blocked their view. They stated that a
pickup was parked along the Interstate with a man outside looking in the
same direction as this craft, this witness has not been found. Estimated
sighting time - 90 seconds. Ellsworth AFB & Rapid City Airport contacted -
no aircraft in area, nothing unidentified on radar.
another on 11/11/94
On the same day at the same time, Paul Hunt and 14 year old Greg
Hodgin were deer hunting northwest of Black Hawk. Greg had climbed a hill to
look for game when he spotted a grayish, stationary craft off to the
northeast. He described this object as having a dome on top at one end,
sitting low in the sky. At first sight Greg thought he saw a flashing white
light at one end of the craft. When I compared the picture that Greg drew
with the picture that the Burckhard�s had drawn, it was amazingly similar.
Greg viewed the craft for approx. 30-45 seconds then turned around to wave
and yell at Paul to come up and look at the UFO. When Greg turned back
around the craft was gone.
Back on Interstate 90, Merle Neilson was traveling north in the
vicinity of Wonderland Homes which is just north of exit 51. She saw a
bright flash of light off to the northeast. She pulled off to the side of
the road, she thought an aircraft was in trouble. Sitting there in the sky
was a silver-gray craft �just hanging there, sort of bobbling.� Merle thinks
she also saw flash coming off of the craft. After viewing this object for
several seconds she watched as it �zipped� into a long, thin cigar shaped
cloud. She watched to see if it was going to come out, it did not.
Eight Hours Later 11/12/94
Jim Dickinson of rural Black Hawk was watching TV. Between 1-1:30 a.m.
he went to the kitchen and through his north window observed 2 bright,
fluorescent orange-red craft sitting in the night sky about 1000 feet up, in
the direction of Piedmont. He then noticed his deck and surrounding land was
flooded in a whitish-yellow light. Jim and his 2 dogs walked out to his
driveway to get a better look. His dogs, who normally would run and play,
sat by his side, watching the event with him. They did not bark or whimper,
they seemed very interested in the display. Jim estimates that the 2
objects, the one on the left higher than the one on the right by 50 feet,
stayed in this initial position for 90 seconds. Jim estimated the diameter
of each circular craft at 50 feet. Both craft then moved up another 1000
feet at a slight left angle and stayed in this position for another 2
minutes. They then shot up very fast, disappearing. Jim said that it was a
very beautiful sight to behold. Ellsworth AFB and Rapid Airport contacted -
said not their aircraft - nothing on radar.
(The preceding cases in the 1994 mini-flap are the best of the bunch. There
were many more reports of strange lights in the sky, lights traveling in
unison very fast, colored lights making impossible manuvers, stars in the
sky where they shouldn�t be, etc.)
A Grain Elevator? 4/15/95
On April 15, 1995 around 8 p.m. Oliver Puppel of Newell, SD was
traveling south on Hwy. 79 to Sturgis, SD. 3 miles south of Newell, Oliver
glanced to the east and saw what he initially thought was a building, the
first thing that came to mind was a grain elevator. It was about 1/2 mile to
the left of him. He knew there had never been a grain elevator there before.
It was sitting on or located near the gound when Oliver first sighted the
object. He saw only a faint outline of the shape, it was twice as tall as it
was wide, the lights were what caught his attention. He could see the
spacing in between the lights in each separte row. There were 5 bands of
lights, 3 rows in each band. The bands were evenly spaced on the object, the
top and bottom bands were green, the 2nd and 4th bands were blue and the
middle band was red. From the way the lights were oscillating in a clockwise
direction, it gave Oliver the sense that the craft was circular. He also
feels that the lights were attached to the outside of the object, they were
not buillt in. Oliver estimated the width easily at 60 feet and at least
twice that, 120 feet in height. He pulled off to the side of the highway to
call his grandmother on his car phone. Just as he was stopping, the object
rose approx. 100 feet into the air, traveled slightly to the south and
positioned itself straight across from his car door. It had stayed straight
up and down as it moved.
He called his grandmother and stayed on the phone with her during the
sighting, approx. 15 minutes according to the timer on his phone. He said
there was no sound or vibration from the object, no exhaust, no flames, no
smell. Shortly before the craft left, it moved closer to Oliver and stopped
again. He said that he was really frightened at this point but remained on
the phone with his grandmother.
By this time the green and blue lights had stopped oscillating and
were steady. In a few more seconds the green and blue lights shut off. The
red band in the middle was still turning in a clockwise direction. Then it
appeared that only one light in the center row of the red band was
osicillatting, it would disappear momentarily as it went to the back of the
craft and then reappear. The red light then started to �decay,� turning
orange then yellow as it was going around. After about 30 seconds the light
turned bright yellow and stopped, he could still see where the other bands
of lights were located even though they weren�t on. The craft started off to
the east, straight away from him, the yellow light getting smaller and
smaller, diappearing into a low cloud on the horizon as a pin prick of
yellow light. This took 10 seconds or less. About a second after it
disappreared, Oliver saw a brilliant burst of yellowish light within the
cloud. He said that during his sighting, several people drove by but did not
stop. He cannot explain how they could not have seen this object.
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