Minnesota UFO Sightings in 1991

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Basketball sized orb of light, burst with intensity after about 2 minutes then disappeared. In 1991, during a summer night I saw an orb of light in Elk River, Minnesota. I was 8 years old and had a friend over who also witnessed the orb.

I remember that just before seeing the orb we were watching the tonight show on a 13” black and white TV. For whatever reason we stood up to look outside my bedroom window when the orb floated down from above the maple trees, stopped 20 feet from the ground (about 15 feet away from us). The orb was about as big as a basketball.

It hung there for a few moments, then burst in an incredible blinding light for a second and disappeared. The experience scared me for days. I have not seen one before or after this incident.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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It was huge , black , with lights and totally silent and triangle shaped My son who at the time was 9 or 10, and i came out of the hockey arena and headed up the short, steep hill so I could take him home from hockey. I have an older son who also played numerous games at the same rink. I traveled the road hundreds of times.

The road is steep enough so that you literally have a perfect look at the sky. I remember it was a clear evening , almost dark. So i could see the sky perfectly.

Thats when i saw that the stars were disappearing. I saw a huge Black triangle shape with different color lights on the bottom. I estimated it at over 1000 feet long ,I stopped the car , got my son out of the car, before I told him what I saw.

And asked him what He saw. Exactly the same answer. What blew me away was , it did not make a sound.

It moved WNW what I figured was about 40 - 50 MPH. He even told me the different colors of light. I know what I saw because I asked my son and he saw what i saw.

I said nothing to him except asked him exactly what he saw. His last question to me was, what was that dad . ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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7 UFOs flying in a train formation seen in Northfield MN, 1991 I have created a Flash animation of this experience: http://www.((URL deleted)) 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 friends. The event occured 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 7 or maybe 8 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" with 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'm certain 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. 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 lights were weird, and there were 6 or seven of them! Interestingly, the police-woman 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. After the initial string of lights disappeard to our left, 3-5 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 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 about 8 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 that a local farmer farmer had apparantly also had a sighting around the same time as us.

This farmer 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.

The 1997 "Phoenix Lights" reminded me somewhat of what we saw, how the lights appeared in a row. But the lights in that video seemed white, not red, and didn't appear to be moving. The lights we saw were much closer to each other (and to us) than the lights in the Phoenix videos that were widely shown.

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. These lights were close and sharp and had it been daylight, I'm certain I could describe the shape of these craft, but it was just dark enough that we could only see the lights of the craft, not the shape of the crafts they 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. This string of lights was moving roughly in an east to west path. ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

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5-6 silver, egg-shaped craft desending one by one at early sunrise on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. I was looking across Lake Calhoun from a window on the top floor of the Calhoun Beach Club. It was still pretty dark since the sun was just starting to rise.

I saw something reflecting the sunlight to the southwest, and at first I thought it was an airplane since it was in the sky and the sun hadn't risen high enough to touch the tops of buildings or treetops. The window in which I looked from was open and it was very quiet out side, and I didn't hear a sound coming from it. As I looked I realised it could'nt be a plane because it was too small; or a hellicopter because it made no noise.

It was like a big silver egg the size of a small house, and it was wobbling back and forth and up and down slowly above some houses about one quarter of the way around the lake to the left of my view. it then calmed down and slowly started to desend. It seemed to drop in front of the houses but behind the trees before going out of sight.

Then, there were more flying to the same area above the trees. First one, then another, then two at once. All were moveing in the same odd way, then slowly dropping down behind the trees and out of sight one at a time.

I tried to wake up my friend who was in the bedroom and I brought him out to look, but he was mad that I woke him up and wouldn't listen. He just went back to bed. I didn't want to miss this experience though, so I went back to the window to see.

In all, I probably saw 5-6 craft that night. I don't tell many people about what happend, since I recieved alot of flack about it in the past, although I wish I had written down the date and time. That was the last thing on my mind.

If there is anyone else in that area of Minneapolis who has seen these craft, plese contact me. I am a sky-watcher now.