All Reported UFO Sightings in Winona, Minnesota

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During a very intense lightning and thunder storm, I was in a yurt with a window in the center roof, and after several strikes of lightning, I saw a bluish-white circle of solid light appear in the sky and move slowly then disappear for a second, then reappear.

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A bright light appeared shining through our window, then down at our floor and then in the opposite direction towards our closet. The motion towards the floor and the closet was unexplainable. Our window sits about 8 feet from the outside floor so something had to be up in the sky .

with no sound.

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Two firie orange/red balls of flame floating and hovering, faint outline of triangular shape just under and out from firie shaped ball There were two orange/red balls of flame and they seemed to just float around the night sky very slowly. There was no wind and no sound at all. They seemed so close at times and at times i could see an outline under the flame looking balls.

The outline kind of looked like three giant sized fans conected together in a triangular pattern and facing downwards with the firie ball part just above one triangle end. they would move very close to each other and then apart again. I ran downstairs to grab my video camera and when i came back up they were gone.

we watched open eyed for a few mins and all of a sudden they rose up from behind this big tree on the opposite side of our block. OMG they were closer than ever. my mom was freaking and my daughter age 13 was in awe, she just kept asking what are they.

I got some video, the best i could with what i have. You cant see the faint outline that i was describing earlier but firie orange/red balls are pretty clear. Definitely unexplainable to me.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Strange object in night sky My boyfriend and I had a few friends over Saturday night. We were sitting around a fire in our backyard. We seen two jets fly by going really fast.

We did not think anything of it until someone noticed something strange hovering over our house. We all turned in the direction of this object. I was not the first to see this.

The person who did said after we all moved to get a better look it looked alot smaller. It resembled a hot air ballon, but not right side up. It looked sideways instead of up and down, left to right.

Its really hard to find the exact words to describe it. It looked like a fire burning on the end of the object but inside. Like a candle would flicker, I could see this at the small end of the object.

I really couldn't believe that this thing was right there in the sky. It almost looked like a lantern like the outside of it, or the material it was made of was sheer. Like I said you could see a flame or something flicker inside.

! No sound was made. It looked to be an off white color, then a reddish, last was an orange color. The colors were throughout the object at the same time.

It didnt change color. The weirdest thing about all of it was when I tried to take a picture of it, my camera malfunctioned. It took about seven tries to get a picture taken and by that time it was almost gone.

All you can see is a red dot in the sky. I will eventually try to have these magnified. Also my camera low battery light started blinking when I tried to take the picture.

Later it stopped and still has the same batteries with no problems. I am quite unsure about what good this report is going to do. I feel very disturbed by what I have seen and I believe that no one will ever be able to explain what I saw.

I am scared that I will be laughed at or ridiculed if I speak to others about this. I would love to learn more about what I have seen or talk to others. I'm sure you probably get alot of reports but I assure you that this account is true.

I have seen shows before where people say they have seen things and I was never decided if it could be true or not. Now I know how they must have felt.

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Four separate bright white lights traveling across the sky, distort the light from stars as they pass. On Saturday night, May 6th, 2006 at approximately 23:45, my two adult son's and I observed an unusual object moving accros the sky. We were standing outside in an area devoid of light so that the evening sky was clear.

We were in Winona, Minnesota. It was a beautiful night without a cloud in the sky. A loose formation of 4 points of white light traveling from East to West were observed.

The 4 points of light were of equal intensity, remaining constant at about the brightness level of a bright star. The 4 objects were separate, moving independantly from one another, seaminly to dart about in a loose formation, all traveling together. As we stood near a tall industrial building, the objects were seen as they came over the roof of the building and then disapeared about 5 seconds later.

The most unusual thing about the objects was the area around and in-between them. The space around and between the objects of the formation seamed to ripple as though the light from starts in the background was being distorted. It was like a large bubble of water traveling across the sky, distorting the light, we could clearly see through it but distorted and rippling.

There was absolutly no sound, silent. Our first impression was that the objects were close. It then appeared that the objects were at very high altitude (or maybe not even flying near the earth) traveling at a very high rate of speed.

Then, as the objects flew to a point about 90 degrees from the initial sighting, they just vanished. I'm 60 years old and have seen many strange things in life, but Ive never seen anything like this before.

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Appeared to be a plane crashing leaving a smoke trail.

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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.

PD)).