Minnesota UFO Sightings in 1996

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SUMMARY: On the night of December 8th, 1996, at 11.15 pm (central time) a triangular shaped object appeared in the sky and hovered in the air for a du ((NUFORC Note: Report ends abruptly. PD)).

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SUMMARY: A bright white light was seen in the night sky. It quickly darted over to the north, stopped, and then took off back south and suddenly disappeared. I was out star gazing which I do often, when I noticed one of the stars was misshaped.

It was oblong like a football, slightly wider at one end. Within 15 seconds of when I first saw it, it took off very quickly to the north and suddenly stopped. In about five more seconds, it took off back to the south, slightly faster, and disappeared with its light trail following behind.

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The sighting took place outside of a northern Minnesota town. The cabin we were at was located at a lake. I was out on the lake taking in Sun and practicing my fishing cast.

Unfortunately, I was alone on the dock. Most of my group were either napping or went into town. I was enjoying the birds and the sun when I looked over the lake and saw something dark come over the trees.

The object came over the trees and slowly over the water towards my direction. I heard no noise at all from the craft and it slowly made its way. No noise and no exhaust or smoke was seen.

This I found strange. The craft came slowly over me. I actually could see the bottom of the craft.

It looked very industrial. I could see on the right underside something that resemble what a culvert looks like and the rest of the bottem n had small hook like objects and small tool like black gaskets. The craft made NO noise at all and drifted very quietly north I had no camera and no cell with me unf! ortunately.

I did draw a picture. It is something I will never forget.

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My parents, brothers, and I all witnessed what remains a UAP to us. A star sized shape that maneuvered in low orbit. My parents, brothers, and I all witnessed what remains a UAP to us.

It was a very clear night, and light pollution wasn't terrible in our town at this point. It was summer vacation, and we often spent the evenings outside up to an hour or so past dark. I don't know what specifically brought us all out, but stargazing was not an uncommon activity for us.

My father was an avid stargazer from his youth, and taught me from a young age to know the difference between satellites and celestial bodies. I noticed something that didn't fit the bill, and excitedly tried to get my parents to notice it. What we saw was a star sized pin prick of light that appeared to be at significant altitude.

It would light up and move in a straight line about 6° of the horizon and wink out. It would reappear 6-10° further out from its last visible position, but would be moving at nearly a right angle to its previous trajectory. Again, it would stay lit for a second or two, traversing a few degrees of the horizon and go dark.

It continued this for nearly an hour, and all of my family members were watching it for periods of time. Skittering across the sky like a water bug that would light up each time it changed directions. On a few rare occasions, it would cross a star while unlit, and it was large enough to black out the star behind it briefly as it passed.

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A V shaped craft with amber colored lights that was a big as a football field heading west towards Anoka, Minnesota on August 18, 1996. The thing was as big as a football field. It was V shaped.

The lights were amber colored and what appeared to be dimmed. The first thing I thought was "How tricky of them. They are trying to blend in with the street lights.

" It had approx. fifteen sets of lights on each side except the first light which was a single one. It was moving directly west.

It was so low that by the time I ran a half of a block I was directly behind it and it was getting blocked by the trees . I really wanted to see if I could see the stars through the middle or not but to see if it was solid but it was passing through the trees. I thought I may have.

Even though I didn't get to see it for very long, it was no doubt amazing and HUGE! It's funny, but right before I saw it I had thought to myself "It would be a good night to see a U.F.O.

" A couple of minutes later I saw it. About a year later I heard some other people had seen a U.F.

O. directly east of where I was and the same description. The area I saw this in is a populated suburb of Minneapolis and was moving directly into the city of Anoka.

I wish I had known of your reporting network back then. Even though it was 3:18 in the morning I had not been drinking. I had been dropping a friend off at home.

The craft was silent. I found that amazing!.

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Super bright white blinding light. A light around me and friend where we couldn't see anything, bright white all around us. Not sure how far light flashed around us but it was so bright i figured the whole town would have seen it.

It lasted 3 seconds or less. And me and friend parted ways and went straight home. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate.

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The lights followed alongside the car My mom just introduced me to this web site yesterday and I wanted to post my experience because it was so strange. It was near the end of July in 1996, Myself (20yrs old) and 3 friends (ages 17-19)were driving from Minneapolis to Winona in the middle of the night. We wanted to be in Winona at the scenic overlook by sunrise.

I had made this trip one other time before. I was driving an old 2 door Ford Escort, and my friend (who is now my husband) was in the passenger seat, and another couple were in the back seat. It was sometime between 1 am and 3 am, (not sure of exact time) it was a clear night, not very cloudy at all, we were the only car on the road and we hadn't seen another car for about 30 minutes, the other couple with us had fallen asleep in the car.

All of a sudden without any warning there were 9 large, bright, flashing lights out my driverside window, now my friend on the passenger side only saw one of the lights out the windshield (in the top corner on the driverside). The lights were in three rows of three, and the rows were staggered (will email drawing)The best way to describe the lights is like a set of stadium lights, like at a baseball field, when they turn on you can here the flash as the electricity runs to the bulbs. Thats how all 9 lights looked, and they all flashed at the same time, but not in a pattern just random.

The lights lit up the other lane on the highway and the ditch. There was nothing but open field in this area, and the lights were very bright I was yelling at my friend "What is that, Do you see that" and he just staired out the windshield and was absolutely quite through this, and the two people sleeping in the back seat didn't wake up as I was yelling at my friend to answer me. Now, i'm not saying there was something wrong with him he was just shocked at what we were seeing and didn't know how to respond to me.

I was driving about 60 mph when these lights appeared, and they kept pace with the car for at least 30-40 seconds, they remained out my driverside window, flashing, they didn't change color but I would say they had some color. I don't know if the lights had color or if it was my eyes messing with me, it was like stairing at the sun, you get some spects of color in your view when you look away. They were very bright white just like stadium lights.

I would say the bottom row of lights were 10 feet or so above the ground, just on the other side of the ditch. I had to look up out of the window to see the top row. I asked my friend if I should stop the car, I got no response, I kept yelling what the ---- is that, I was really freaked out.

I deceided to keep driving, still a speed of about 60-65 mph, and then the lights drifted just behind my window, and I looked back and they were just out the little side window in the rear for about 2-3 seconds, and then they disapeared just like that. No sound, no trails of light, nothing. It was like someone just flipped off the light switch.

Then my friend looked at me and said "that was crazy" and then my other two friends woke up and we told them what happened and they didn't believe us of course. I don't know what it was that I saw, all I know is the lights were not there before, I didn't see the road lit up or anything and then WAM there they are, and the fact that they stayed with the car while I was driving! Stationary lights that are on a pole or something don't keep up with a car going 60, and they lit up the road so much I would have seen it on approach. Then to just disapear, it was crazy.

The other weird thing was that my two friends in the back could sleep through me yelling. I just don't get it. We told everyone we knew about it when we got back and only a few believed us.

Now, we were all older teens at the time but credible people, we weren't drinking or anything the night this happened. I tried for a long time to find a reasonable explination, but I can't. I could say that the lights themselves could have been some kind of stadium lights because they looked just like that, but I can't explain why they would have been in the middle of no where and how they would have turned on all of a sudden and then traveled alongside the car.

And then GONE just like that. If someone has a suggestion of what it might have been please share it with me, I am open to hear anything that might explain it. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

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Possible prior sighting similar to 16 Feb 2004 Amityville, NY On this night my girlfriend and I were camping in the back 40 of a friends farm and had gone out raccoon hunting. About 01:30 we decided to call it a night and started walking back to our tent which was across a hay field from the woods we were in. As we got to the tent I turned and looked to the east and saw what I thought were aircraft wingtip strobes out about 2-3 miles.

I didn't think much of it at the time so we went about getting the rifles cleaned and put away for the night. For some reason I looked back in that same direction about 5 minutes later and the lights were still there. I brought this to my girlfriends attention and had her hand me my rifle scope.

I removed the red dot sight, attached the scope to the rifle, and set the bipod on the car roof to get a steady look at this strange set of lights. When I got the scope on the lights the were not in fact sitting still but moving very slightly from side to side. I thought that could be from my breathing but then remembered that I had set the bipod.

I told her it must be a helicopter just hovering out there for some reason and put the rifle away. As we turned back to watch it some more, it moved about a half mile from it's original position and then started west. I told her, I guess now we'll find out what it is.

Whatever it was passed about a quarter mile to the north of us in just a few seconds, and it made no sound at all, no rotor noise, no engine noise. We looked at each other and I asked if she'd heard anything and she said no. Well, we both got the willies and decided that we were definatly calling it a night and went to bed.

I thought that I would share this with you because I just read the report from Amityville, NY. We weren't able to see a shape but I don't know of any aircraft military or civilian that can move that fast without any sound.

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saw flying rectangle that reflected sunrise colors This happened in 1996 when I was in sixth grade. I can not remember the date. I was waiting for the bus when I saw a flying rectangle hovering above the Buhl bus garage.

It was between 7-8a.m The flying rectangle hovered for about 5min. It was large enough to fit 4 or fewer and the craft reflected all the colors of the sunrise but the sun was already up and the sky was clear.

Everyone at the bus stop saw it. There were 6-10 of us waiting. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

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Woman sees "bnright whitish-gold light" hovering in sky. Two smaller lights on either side.

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Man, 3 neighbors witness "huge" cluster of amber lights pass slowly from SW to NE. Sky crystal clear. Steady pace, no noise.

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Man delivering newspapers sees large "trapezoid of very bright amber lights w/ strobes" pass slowly overhead SW to NE. Silent.

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Minneapolis FAA Center repts. calls from MI State Patrol regarding bizarre aerial event over Cheboygan & other nearby towns.

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Circular object follows car, 4 witnesses. A single bright circular object was seen hovering over a friend's house, whom of which we were picking up to go to dinner on Valentine's Night. This object followed the car as we left, and proceeded to follow us through more than 8 miles along a gravel road.

Along the way we didn't encounter any other vehicles. The object made no noise except for a slight humm, and stayed along the right hand side of the car, just above the treeline. There were 4 witnesses in the car, who all claimed to have seen the same thing.

As we turned onto a highway, the UFO followed us from behind, and a huge spotlight came down, covering a large feild on one side of the road, and the highway behind us. It was following closely, and seemed to be catching up to us, and another car came over a hill from the other way, and the object seemed almost to disappear from view, it didn't exactly disappear, but it moved much more quickly than any manmade craft is able to. We checked as soon as we reached our destination and it seems that we didn't lose any time.

I saw the craft numerous times after, always hovering near the house at night after dark, and two other witnesses who were in the car claim to have seen it other times afterwards. It was a different shape when it would hover near my house, it would change shapes to the pattern of the moon. If there was a half moon, it too would be a half circle, and if it was a sliver moon, it would be a sliver too, but it changed colors from white, to yellow, to orange, and even red.

It would hover very closely, and would wake me up out of a sound sleep. I haven't seen it since August of 1996, and the last time, I was with two other witnesses who saw it zip across the sky. I can count over 10 witnesses in the year of 1996 who have all seen the same object that year in the same area.

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UFO chases car 8 miles. 4 witnesses. Several sightings afterward.

Kim, Terri, and I were driving to Nikki's house, Kim's cousin (about 6:30pm). We were all about 17-18 years old and it was Valentine's day. Nikki and Kim were living about a 1/2 mile from each other in a remote farming area.

It was dark and the roads were icy. Kim's mother had reported numerous times to her family that there was a UFO that followed her to work daily. Each morning the lit object would wait for her above the mail box and one day, she claims the object beamed down a light and flew over the hood of her car.

On one hand, I believed her because she is an honest "no nonsense" person, but on the other hand, it's definately something you need to see to believe! Kim began seeing the object after her mother woke her up and pointed it out to her one morning. TO NOTE: Kim has an uncle that is very paranoid of aliens being able to see him at night, to the point of shooting out the overhead farm lights. He lived about 6-7 miles away.

My mother bought a telescope to watch the skies after seeing UFO's over Lake Miltona in the 80's. My uncle has seen UFO's in Park Rapids, MN while jogging along wooded trails. I have several friends and aquaintances who claim to have seen UFO's (about 10).

My husband says he used to watch UFO's while having field parties in Miltona in the early 90's. On Feb. 14th at about 6:30pm, my friends and I picked up Nikki.

Terri was driving and Kim was in the passenger seat. I was sitting in the back seat of a 4-door car. When we pulled into the driveway, Kim yelled, "See, there it is! That's what I've been seeing!" We all observed a UFO hovering above the silo.

Nikki had also seen it and immediately jumped into the back seat. The object was round and white in appearance. Although it was bright, the light appeared to be self-contained, meaning that it didn't emit light like a flashlight or lightbulb.

When we drove away, the object came straight down from the sky and then followed along-side the vehicle. It was about the size of our car. It followed along the ditches, move up over trees and power lines, then would dip back down along side us.

It was icy and we took back roads (gravel) for 8 miles to my mother's house in Miltona, MN. All of us were hysterical and crying, yelling at Terri to drive faster. There was no other traffic on the gravel roads and but Terri had to drive slowly.

Once we hit Highway 14, the object moved higher up into the sky and moved behind us. A large beam of light came down like a helicopter spotlight. I felt like something snapped in my brain.

I'm not sure how to explain it, but it seemed nearly audible. This is the point at which I'm not sure exactly what happened. I'm not sure if I imagined what COULD have happened,or if it actually DID happen.

The car was stopped. No one was screaming or crying and everyone else was staring straight ahead, motionless. There wasn't any lights on the dash, no clock, etc.

, and the car wasn't running. I think there was a small man (being) next to my car door. We had locked all the doors upon seeing the UFO.

The man telepathically told me to open the door and I refused. It said, "We're going to get in anyway. Make it easier on yourself and unlock the door.

" I reached over and unlocked it and don't remember anything else. BUT, it was as if we DIDN'T stop the car. The light had come out and chased us, closing in on us slowly, and just when it was almost on top of us, a car came from the other direction and it was gone in a flash, going in the other direction.

I had regression hypnosis to help me remember this incident, and as it turns out, I'm just one of those people who can't be hypnotised. What luck! But, I was able to recall details just from simply telling the story to the hypnotist over and over again. It seemed that each time I could remember another small little detail.

But, when it comes to the spot where I'm not sure if we stopped or not, I was confused each time. I simply came up with, "and then it was gone and we went to my house." My friend also had hypnosis and swears that she and her cousin were taken up into a spaceship.

I was not present at her hypnosis session, but she said it was pretty intense. Over the next two months or so, I saw the UFO several times at my house (daily, sometimes). It would come after dark and it seemed immediately after I fell asleep.

I would wake up feeling as though something was staring intently at me and would open my eyes to see it outside my window. It would change shapes to the shape of the moon (half moon, crescent, full moon, etc.) and would also change colors (white, yellow, orange).

It did not have flashing colors, but would be one full color at a time. Once, it turned blood red as I reached for the phone to report it to the police as a sighting. I was scared to go to sleep and felt like no one could possibly identify with me what I was going through.

I eventually saw it less and less, but did start seeing it again about 3 years ago, spurring me to pursue the hypnosis. Before the hypnosis session, I swear that I woke to a female alien standing next to my bed reaching over my abdomin area. A few hours later I woke up laying crosswise on my bed without the covers on.

I also had an incident where I woke up sleep walking, chasing a very short man out of my room. I dismissed it as a dream, but after going to the bathroom to take a drink of water, I noticed that the UFO was, once again, sitting outside the window! CRAZY! A few days later, I saw the UFO in daylight gliding across the sky. It did this for a few minutes, then quickly made a right angle and dashed away.

That time I could see it was cigar-shaped, not round. I was curious as to whether or not other cars driving on the highway also saw it, but I guess I'll never know. I haven't seen it for quite some time now.

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Something odd scared the hell out of me and I swear to god it was real It was late early a.m. I had just gotten off work and had been home for 1 hour or so.

I made a snack watched a little t.v. and then proceded to bed.

Upon lying in bed for awhile with my head opposite to the window, I began seeing lights reflecting/shining on the wall. They looked similar to an ambulance a fire truck or police. Some kind of emergency vehicle.

I remember thinking what the heck is going on here. I did live in a very rural area at the time and I know I didn't hear any noise of sirens relating to an emergency vehicle. I remember lying there wondering what was going on.

As far as I can remember I looked out the small window and saw nothing out of the ordinary.No emergency vehicle. So I climbed back in bed.

Tried to blow it off as nothing. I tried going back to sleep wondering what the deal was. As I was lying in my bed I began to hear odd little noises.

Quiet and suble. Kind of like voices, but they didn't make any sense. I heard some odd noise at the back door, but living in the country didn't think much about it.

Then I felt a un-easy fealing like someone else was in the room. I looked up and I swear to god I saw a figure, not much higher than my water bed. At very most the figure was 3ft tall.

It was staring directly at me. I looked at it, and remember thinking I am not seeing what I am seeing. I also remember a sense of panic.

I suddenly could not move. I remember trying with all my might to move, but I couldn't. I couldn't move, couldn't speak or anything else.

And I also remember be affraid for my life. I was never more affraid at that moment than I had ever been. Now I grew up out in the woods and in the country.

I have seen wild animals, bear.deer.etc.

Many people out of the area would be affraid of ther own shadow.in the great north woods so it takes alot to scare me. But I froze and can honestly say that I have never been more scared in my life.

I have mentioned this story to a few others and they just think I am full of it. I did mention it to a roomate the next day that was sleeping in another room that night and he told me almost exactally the same thing that I had witnessed. A little more vague, but with substantial similarities without me going into detail with him.

Additionally no alcohol, drugs or any other chemicals or stimulants were abused that night nor any time prior to that event. ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).