BISCAY
2/14/89
UFO Roundup Vol 5 #48

BROOKLYN PARK
9/27/97
(RDUP10/5/97)
At 7:30 p.m., Crystal R. stepped out of her home in Brooklyn Park a suburb 12 miles northwest of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota.

The night was rainy, and, as she halted on the doorstep, Crystal "saw five cylindrical lights spaced evenly apart in a circle I would estimate to be eight to ten feet (2.5 to 3 meters) across. Lights were pulsating on this panel around the circle. Object hovered over the top of our large weeping willow (tree), which is at least 30 feet (9 meters) high."

Crystal said she watched the object hover "for approximately five seconds." During that time, it "made strange low-pitched humming sounds."

She said she went back into the house for a moment to get a drink of water and then "looked out the front door again to see if the object was still there. It was, so I observed it, wondering what it was. Suddenly, it disappeared. It did not fly away or move. It was just gone and did not reappear to my knowledge."

BROOKSTON
11/15/97
UFO Roundup Vol 2 #45

CHATFIELD
September 10, 2000
CE I. Daytime triangle. Personal report. See Readers' Sightings, page 18

CHATFIELD
11/21/00
UFO Roundup Vol 5 #50

CHISHOLM
June 23, 2001
Filer's Files #26

COMSTOCK
5/5/64
(Magonia)
A farmer saw an object rise from a filed and fly rapidly into a cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a depression and imprints on the ground.

CYRUS
11/16/65
(Magonia)
A man was driving on Highway 28 about 5 km west of Cyrus when he saw a red fluorescent cylindrical object with a cone on top, 4 meters long and 2 meters in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The object took off toward the northeast.

DULUTH
9/6/97
(RDUP9/21/97)
At 9:30 p.m., Van D. was sitting at home in the Morgan Park section of Duluth, Minnesota (population 92,811), watching a wrestling match on TV. "I looked out the window," Van said, "And all of a sudden, I saw this triangle-shaped aircraft. It had bright white lights at the end of each of the corners. And in back of the aircraft, it had red lights, sort of like the engine. So I watched it fly across the sky not far from my house."

"I heard nothing, absolutely nothing, no noise or anything. So then I turned and saw this other aircraft, more like the flying saucer type. It had bright red lights encircling the craft, and a bright white light on top. So I watched it fly across, too. No sound at all."

Van ran upstairs to get a telescope. But, by the time he returned, "the spaceships seemed to have disappeared." Then, about 20 minutes later, he "saw the saucer-shaped object flying far beyond my backyard, but it was moving too fast for me to see anything with the telescope."

DULUTH
9/6/97
UFO Roundup Vol 2 #36

DULUTH
August 18, 2001
See Filer's Files #36

DULUTH
March 5, 2001
See Filer's Files

DULUTH
May 24, 2002
See Filer's Files

DULUTH
June 17, 2002
See Filer's Files

ELK RIVER
1/28/00
UFO Roundup Vol 5 #5

FERGUS FALLS
10/18/96
(RDUP10/27/96)
At 7:50 p.m., Maureen N. was driving on Interstate Highway 94, just west of Fergus Falls, near the North Dakota state line, when she spied something unusual in the sky. "It appeared to be a medium- sized pulsating star. As I watched it, it began to move, but keeping pace with me, then speeding up. It crossed the highway in front of me, then stopped and hovered by the side of the road. I could see distinctly green and red spot-light lights at the top. They were moving around, not just stationary. I could see no structure at all, just the lights. There was one main large white circular light and the red and green lights at the top. While it was hovering, it appeared to flip upside down. The (colored) lights appeared at the bottom. I had my videocam along and could have gotten it on video except it didn't seem safe to stop. The craft meandered slowly over the countryside until it disappeared from my view on the horizon."

HERMANTOWN
2/24/97
UFO Roundup Vol 2 #9

KINDRAE
4/8/65
(Magonia)
A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 meters away, in the northwest at 30 meters 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.

LITTLE FALLS
11/14/00
UFO Roundup Vol 5 #47

LYLE
6/4/63
(Magonia)
A multi-colored object, the size of a light truck, was reported in the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area over 3 km wide on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border, with no results.

MANKATO
11/24/51
(Bluebook)
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.

MAPLEWOOD
November 19, 2001
See Filer's Files

MARSHALL COUNTY
8/79
(UFO Encyclopedia)
Deputy Val Johnson of Marshall County, Minnesota was involved in an encounter while driving at night. He encountered a light ahead of him which suddenly engulfed the car. Apparently the alarmed officer crashed his vehicle. He recovered some time later with the car slewed across the road. He was suffering from severe soreness in his eyes.

Sheriff Denis Brekke investigated the crash site and noted considerable damage to Johnson's vehicle although he could not account for it from objects in the immediate vicinity.

There was also the starnge fact that the car clock and Johnson's watch agreed with each other but were both fourteen minutes slow. Investigation of the vehicle by the Ford Motor Company Glass Division suggested that the damage caused to the windscreen required the simultaneous raising of pressure inside the patrol car and the lowering of it outside.

This case may not even be a UFO incident. No one knows what happened, and Johnson cannot recall what happened after the lightblinded him. The case remains unsolved.

MILLE LACS LAKE
April 30 2001
SEE FILER'S FILES

MINNEAPOLIS
10/11/51
(McDonald)
An engineer and former Air Force P-38 pilot, Joseph J. Kaliszewski, flying for the General Mills Skyhook balloon program on balloon-tracking missions saw highly unconventional objects on two successive days in October, 1951. Both were reported through company channels to the official investigative agency (Bluebook), whose report describes the witnesses as "very reliable" and as "experienced high altitude balloon observers." On October 10, at about 10:10 a.m., Kaliszewski and Jack Donaghue were at 6000 ft in their light plane, climbing toward their target balloon, when Kaliszewski spotted "a strange object crossing the skies from East to West, a great deal higher and behind our balloon (which was near 20,000 ft at that time)." When I interviewed Kaliszewski, he confirmed that this object "had a peculiar glow to it, crossing behind and above our balloon from east to west very rapidly, first coming in at a slight dive, leveling off for about a minute and slowing down, then into a sharp left turn and climbing at an angle of 50 to 60 degrees into the southeast with a terrific acceleration." The two observers had the object in view for an estimated two minutes, during which it crossed a span of some 45 degrees of the sky. No vapor trail was seen, and Kaliszewski was emphatic in asserting that it was not a balloon, jet, or conventional aircraft.

The following morning, near 0630, Kaliszewski was flying on another balloon mission with Richard Reilly and, while airborne north of Minneapolis, the two of them noticed an odd object. Quoting from the account submitted to the official agency:

The object was moving from east to west at a high rate and very high. We tried keeping the ship on a constant course and using the reinforcing member of the windshield as a point. The object moved past this member at about 50 degrees per second. This object was peculiar in that it had what can be described as a halo around it with a dark undersurface. It crossed rapidly and then slowed down and started to climb in lazy circles slowly. The pattern it made was like a falling oak leaf inverted, It went through these gyrations for a couple minutes and then with a very rapid acceleration disappeared to the east. This object Dick and I watched for approximately five minutes.

Shortly after, still another unknown object shot straight across the Sky from west to east, but not before Kaliszewski succeeded in radioing theodolite observers at the University of Minnesota Airport. Two observers there (Douglas Smith, Richard Dorian) got fleeting glimpses of what appeared to them to be a cigar-shaped object viewed through the theodolite, but could not keep it in view due to its fast angular motion.

MINNEAPOLIS
10/11/51
(Bluebook)
6:30 a.m. Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds.

MINNEAPOLIS
6/1/54
(Bluebook)
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.

MINNEAPOLIS
May 18, 2001
Filer's Files #26

MOUND
9/30/96
(RDUP10/16/96)
At 8:45 p.m., a man was standing in the yard of his apartment house in Mound, Minnesota when he spotted nine UFOs streaking across the clear night sky.

He described them as "nine slightly luminescent objects streaking across the sky, about 10 degrees each second, speeding from west to east. Their luminescence was similar to a medium brightness star." He said their motion reminded him of "swimming dolphins," adding, "They moved from 45 degrees (above the horizon) west to 45 degrees east, flying overhead for nine seconds. They were grouped in a roughly diamond cluster, slightly accelerating and decelerating in relationship to each other."

NEW BRIGHTON
4/24/97
(RDUP4/27/97)
At 9:45 p.m., a boy living in the Twin Cities suburb of New Brighton, Minnesota (population 23,269) looked out a window and saw a bright, diamond-shaped UFO in the sky. Immediately he told his mother, and the two of them went into the backyard of their home, located not far from Long Lake Road and Silver Lake Road.

In a report to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, the woman reportedly said she counted 30 UFOs overhead between 9:45 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. The UFOs were described as "diamond-shaped" or "triangular-shaped craft moving at incredible speed, darting back and forth across the sky." She added that she and her son "saw the underbelly of one or more crafts and the light underneath."

NEW BRIGHTON
4/28/97
UFO Roundup Vol 2 #18

PLYMOUTH
11/4/98
UFO Roundup Vol 3 #46

RED WING
10/17/96
(RDUP10/27/96)
A man who lives near Wausau, Wisconsin, was driving on Highway 61 just outside Red Wing, Minnesota, a town on the Mississippi River 57 miles (91 kilometers) southeast of Minneapolis, when he saw a domed saucer or daylight disc hovering in the sky.

"I couldn't believe my eyes," the man said, "but I think I actually saw a flying disc motionless in the sky, reflecting sunlight, almost as if they were watching me. At first I thought it was a reflection, so I got out of my car. And it was still there. The object had a straight flat bottom. It domed-out on the top. It might have been a reflection, but I seriously doubt it. Basically, it looked like a peripheral view of a cookie. It sat there for a good ten seconds, as I ran up to the fence post to double check to see if it was a reflection. But by the time I got to the fence, it was gone. I don't think it was a reflection. The object appeared truly metallic."

ROCHESTER
3/12/67
(Magonia)
A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 meters above the ground. It was not larger than a car, took a 45 degree orientation, oscillated, and left to the northeast. Three photographs were reportedly taken.

SAVAGE
October 14, 2002
See Filer's Files

SAVAGE
October 14, 2002
See Filer's Files

ST. GEORGE
10/21/65
(Unexplained Mysteries)
Deputy Sheriff Arthur Strauch photographed a UFO in the presence of other witnesses. It was disc-shaped and silvery with a spinning outer rim.

ST. PAUL
December 30, 2002
See Filer's Files

STANCHFIELD
December 21, 2002
See Filer's Files

VESTABURG
February 20, 2002
See Filer's Files

WILLERNIE/STILLWATER
September 3, 2002
See Filer's Files

WINNEBAGO
January 2, 2003
See Filer's Files

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