Minnesota UFO Sightings in 1969

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Large bright white light hovering in minnetonka, mn, summer, 1969 late evening I was walking to friends house three doors away to the east. It was very dark, while walking along I noticed that there were strong shadows from the pine trees growing north east of me. I looked to see a very large round bright object or light.

It appeared to be stationary and hovering in the air no more than 300 meters away. I know it was close becuase it was positioned between myself and a new water tower under construction across a small valley from my location. It was on a heading to the north east of me at less than a 30 degree angle up.

There was no noise at all but it was very oviously not any noral aircraft due to lack of noise and closeness to the ground no more than 100 ft or so. I ran to get my friend about whose house was fifty yards away but lost sight of object when I went to door. WHen we came back out it was gone.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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While picking up hay bales at night, I saw a triangular shaped object speed through the night sky. We had bales of hay to pick up on the ground, my father and I, and it was suppose to rain the following day so we went out at night with a tractor and wagon to pick them up. While there on a cloudless night a triangular shaped object sped across the sky from horizon to horizon at incredible speed.

There was no sonic boom, no vapor trail we could see; no noise at all. We couldn't see the object itself, only three bright lights of different colors, maybe green and blue, which defined the shape as a very large triangle. There had been reports of an expected meteor shower that night, and at first we wondered if that is what we were seeing.

But it flew to low to be meteors and there was no streaking affect like you usually see with those. Also, the color of the lights didn't change. We were speechless for we knew we had witnessed something highly unusual.

For many years we talked about it. My father died in 1995. He had been in the military and was quite knowledgeable about planes.

He was absolutely sure it was no terrestial aircraft, partly because of the color pattern he was. I am not quite sure of the year. It might have been a year or two sooner.

I know I wasn't in high school yet. But I wanted to leave a record of this on file so at least someone would know it happened. The most important aspect of the sighting was the speed and size of the object.

As far as I know, nothing can fly this fast through the atmospere without burning up. That's what I remember the most. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

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30 Minute Encounter with Hovering Saucer 300 Yards Away In 1969, I was 5 years old and my family lived on a farm in rural Minnesota approximately 2 miles Northwest from New York Mills (population 750). My Family (Father, Mother, Older Brother 12, Myself 5, and my younger brother 2) was driving home on a rural dirt road to our farm house near dusk (i.e.

somewhere between 8:30 and 9:00 at night in July). We were heading west down the dirt road that passes by our house when we saw a strange light emanating from behind our nearest neighbors house. The light was brilliant.

As we drove nearer we asked each other "when did our neighbor install a spot light in their yard?" We approached our neighbors house for about a mile and kept looking at the light, but did not understand why they had installed such a bright light in their yard. The road turns North directly in front of their house. As we headed North, my brother, mother, and I kept our eyes focused on the light and we determined the light was not coming from their yard, but instead was coming from a craft/UFO hovering behind their house.

After traveling North for 200 yards North, we turned west again and all of us including my father could now see the saucer shaped craft hovering about 100 feet off the ground 100 yards behind the neighbors house. The craft was a brilliant orange, metallic color and was 30-40 tall and 100-150 feet wide and it was the classical saucer shaped craft. We then turned into our driveway (North) and parked the car about 100 yards from the main road which left the craft hovering about 300 yards south from where we were parked.

We all got out of the car and focused our attention on the craft. It continued to hover there 100 feet above the hill in the neighbor's farm field. There was absolutely no sound coming from the craft.

The color was a brilliant fiery orange and it looked like there were windows on the upper half of the craft. The light from the craft appeared to have similar characteristics to heat rising from a hot road. We watched the craft from outside our house for about a minute and then went in the house because I believe our parents were worried for our safety.

We went in the house and watched the craft hover above that hill for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes it descended and landed behind that hill. We could no longer see the craft , but there was a brilliant halo of light coming up from behind the hill.

We watched the area for another 5 minutes and the craft ascended to about 100 feet above the hill again. It continued to hover there (300 yards south of our house) for another 15 minutes, but then flew away to the south and disappeared in the forest in a swampy area south of our farm. The encounter lasted for over 30 minutes and I still remember it vividly even though I was only 5 years old.

After the craft left, my parents put us to bed and went to sleep themselves. My dad slept with loaded hunting rifle on their bed. My parents never reported the incident because they thought people would think they were nuts.

There were other sightings in the area around that time and the people that made reports were labeled as ODD. My parents never even talked with the neighbors about the encounter to see if they saw the craft which landed about 100 yards in back of their house. My parents still live in that same town, so even 30 years later when we visit Minnesota, we talk about the event and drive past the site.

((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD)).