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LocationRegionMinnesota is an Upper Midwest state whose UFO record centers on deputy Val Johnson's 1979 encounter near Stephen and FBI files on a 2025 sighting by Anoka police employees.
Minnesota is an Upper Midwest state whose UFO record centers on deputy Val Johnson's 1979 encounter near Stephen and FBI files on a 2025 sighting by Anoka police employees.
Minnesota is an Upper Midwest state in the Great Lakes region, bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north, Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south and the Dakotas to the west, with a water border with Michigan across Lake Superior. Saint Paul is the capital and Minneapolis the largest city, and the 2020 census counted 5,706,494 residents in the state known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes."
At about 2 a.m. on August 27, 1979, Marshall County deputy sheriff Val Johnson was on patrol near Stephen when, by his account, a beam of light just above the road sped toward him and engulfed his squad car, and he heard glass breaking. He said he was unconscious for 39 minutes and that his wristwatch and the car's clock had both stopped for 14 minutes. Responding deputies found the car sideways on the road with a shattered windshield, a damaged headlight and emergency light and a bent radio aerial, and a physician compared Johnson's eye irritation to "welder's burns." Ufologists Allan Hendry and Jerome Clark treated the Val Johnson incident as significant; skeptic Philip Klass argued it was a hoax in which Johnson damaged his own car, and Johnson declined a polygraph.
A second police case surfaced in 2026. In May, FOX 9 reported that FBI records in the National Archives' Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection, created under the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, describe a sighting by at least three Anoka Police Department employees from about 1:17 a.m. on February 19, 2025. After a training session they watched a multicolored object near the western horizon for about 90 minutes, describing six "hula-hoops with lights around each loop" that changed position in "three separate bursts"; one filmed a blurry three-second clip through binoculars, and the records say the object "may have flown near the Monticello Nuclear Power Generation Plant." A patrol officer had reported a similar object two nights earlier. The FBI closed the matter without further investigative action, and the records do not identify what was seen. Police Chief Andy Youngquist told FOX 9 that at least one witness was a sworn officer, and Ryan Graves of Americans for Safe Aerospace said the case "stands out because Anoka police reported it."
The two cases frame Minnesota's UFO history: a deputy's damaged squad car, still disputed between ufologists and skeptics, and a federal file in which police employees describe an object no agency has identified.
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Great catch! https://t.co/SFgKR8QzNH [Quoted] Declassified FBI documents detail UFO sighting by Minnesota police officers "Buried within the National Archives is an unexplained sighting from right here in Minnesota. It happened just after 1:17 a.m. on a cold day in February 2025. A small group of Anoka police officers was https://t.co/P8sholDnvA
RT @UAPWatchers: 🚨Feds investigate after Minnesota police officer says they saw a UFO Buried within the National Archives is an unexplaine…
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Declassified FBI documents detail UFO sighting by Minnesota police officers "Buried within the National Archives is an unexplained sighting from right here in Minnesota. It happened just after 1:17 a.m. on a cold day in February 2025. A small group of Anoka police officers was conducting an "after-action briefing" in a Domino's Pizza parking lot just up the road from the police station. That's when one of the officers spotted it: a multi-colored object with flashing lights "hovering" in the s...
I came across this randomly on YouTube and I have my doubts.. I'll start by adding that it is awesome that the UFO subject is now being openly discussed across most major news outlets and it is becoming a trending topic. This sighting report in particular, to me it strongly looks like a camera effect that occurs when you zoom in with a phones camera on a distant light on the sky which most of the time happens to be a star or a planet. So unless the officers truly saw this with their naked eye...
🚨Feds investigate after Minnesota police officer says they saw a UFO Buried within the National Archives is an unexplained sighting from Minnesota. Conor Wight shares what a police officer spotted above Anoka. #ufotwitter #uapX Source: https://t.co/NY95MvBH05
This post will include sightings from myself and several family members. My grandfather was a long haul driver from the mid 1960’s through to the 90’s. He traveled throughout North America and has several million miles under his belt. He absolutely loves aliens, we watch Paul too damn often lol For years he’s told a story of an encounter he had driving through Minnesota. Time: Summer, 1978ish, roughly 9/10pm. Location: Near Lancaster, Minnesota My grandfather was driving south on the 59, when...
