Showing posts with label Patrol Car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patrol Car. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 02, 2022

One of The Strongest Pieces of UFO Evidence To Exist?

One of The Strongest Pieces of UFO Evidence To Exist

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     About 1:40 in the morning Deputy Val Johnson saw a light traveling along the road. He thought at first it might be a plane trying to make an emergency landing on the highway. He turned towards the direction when the light intercepted him. His
By Ken Hayes
krforadio.com
2-27-22
vehicle was struck by the light. He coasted some 800 feet before coming to a stop at a 90-degree angle in the road. Damage was caused to the hood, the windshield was broken, and both of the antennas on his squad car were bent at a 90-degree angle. His wristwatch and his vehicle clock both lost 14 minutes of time.

Friday, August 30, 2019

‘Marshall County UFO Incident’ Commemorated By Historical Society



‘Marshall County UFO Incident’ Commemorated By Historical Society

     Forty years after the Marshall County UFO Incident, the county’s historical society is commemorating the event that still has curiosity-seekers from around the world visiting its museum.

By Ann Bailey
www.grandforksherald.com
8-25-19
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Deputy Val Johnson, who was on patrol about 16 miles from Stephen, Minn., that morning reported afterward that, upon waking up 30 minutes after driving into the circle of light, hovering 3 to 4 feet above the ground, he had burns around his eyes. His patrol car also was damaged: A headlight and the windshield the car were smashed, the two radio antennas were bent and the clock on his dashboard matched that of his watch: 14 minutes slow.

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Deputy is Knocked Out in 'UFO Attack' | UFO CHRONICLE –1979



Deputy is Knocked Out in 'UFO Attack' – The Grand Forks Herald 8-29-1979

Deputy is Knocked Out in 'UFO Attack' (-cont) – The Grand Forks Herald 8-29-1979

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     [Deputy Val] Johnson was on patrol about 1:40 am when he was attacked by an "unidentified thing." It dove at his car and caused him to lose control. It then left him on an isolated rural highway, injured and unable to account for 39 minutes.

The 35-year-old deputy said he was about 10 miles west of Stephen, Minn., when he spotted a bright beam of light about 8 inches in diameter, "like a spotlight," he said. It was hovering 3 to 4 feet above the highway, he said, and it was about 2 1/2 miles away when he first saw it.
By The Grand Forks Herald
8-29-1979

Whatever Happened to County Cop Who Collided with UFO?


Whatever Happened to County Cop Who Collided with UFO?

     At 1:40 a.m. 36 years ago, Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy Val Johnson was on night patrol along a rural section of State Highway 220 near Warren, Minn., when he drove into a ball of white light.
By John Enger
MPRNews
8-27-2015

"I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground," Johnson said in a taped police interview. "The edges were very defined."

Johnson drove toward the light, and woke up in the ditch a half-hour later with burns around his eyes. The windshield and one headlight of his 1977 Ford LTD were smashed. Both radio antenna were bent sharply back. The watch on his wrist and the clock on the dash both ticked 14 minutes slow.

Friday, November 06, 2015

The Real-Life UFO Story Behind This Season Of 'Fargo'


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UFOs On Fargo

By Tracy Mumford
www.mprnews.org
10-27-15

     "This is a true story."

Those words kick off every episode of "Fargo" — they were also at the start of the 1996 movie.

Of course the Coen brothers, and now show creator Noah Hawley, are playing fast-and-loose with "truth." But one of the most unbelievable, out-of-this-world parts of season two is, in fact, "a true story."

(Stop reading now if you're not caught up, Fargo watchers.)

We're talking about the aliens.

So far, unexplained lights and UFO-talk have been in all three episodes of "Fargo," which takes place in and around Luverne, Minn., in 1979.

For these supernatural allusions, Hawley may be pulling straight from the local history books. [...]

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Sheriff’s Deputy UFO Encounter | VIDEO

Sheriff’s Deputy UFO Encounter

By Mike Binkley
minnesota.cbslocal.com
11-1-15

     [...] A Minnesota UFO sighting from the ‘70s is considered more credible than most, in part because of who called it in.

Marshall County sheriff’s deputy Val Johnson was on patrol in the early morning hours of Aug. 27, 1979, when he spotted something strange along a rural highway.

The president of the Marshall County Historical Society, Kent Broten, knows the story well.

“What (Deputy Johnson) saw was a bright object, maybe like a foot in diameter, about three and a half feet off the ground,” Broten said. “As he explained it in the news reports, what was there all of a sudden was here, so the light just shot at him, engulfed his car in light and blinded him.” [...]

Friday, August 28, 2015

The Night a Deputy Sheriff Hit a UFO

The Night a Deputy Sheriff Hit a UFO

By John Enger
www.mprnews.org
8-27-15

     At 1:40 a.m. 36 years ago, Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy Val Johnson was on night patrol along a rural section of State Highway 220 near Warren, Minn., when he drove into a ball of white light.

"I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground," Johnson said in a taped police interview. "The edges were very defined."

Johnson drove toward the light, and woke up in the ditch a half-hour later with burns around his eyes. The windshield and one headlight of his 1977 Ford LTD were smashed. Both radio antenna were bent sharply back. The watch on his wrist and the clock on the dash both ticked 14 minutes slow.

The incident turned Johnson into a local legend and national media sensation. And years later, people are still talking about it. [...]

Friday, October 24, 2014

Deputies Give Chase to a 'UFO' | UFO CHRONICLE – 1974

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Deputies Give Chase to a 'UFO' - Buffalo Evening News 10-21-1974

By Steve Cichon
history.buffalonews.com
10-21-14

     After two separate patrol cars saw “a bright light in the sky without the markings of a normal aircraft,” one car followed the light because one of the deputies in the car was “curious, more or less.” . . .

Friday, July 26, 2013

Warren UFO Encounter: Thousands Seek out Artifact from 1979 UFO Incident


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Warren UFO Encounter: Thousands Seek out Artifact from 1979 UFO Incident

Thousands seek out artifact from 1979 UFO encounter in Warren

By Ryan Bakken
Forum News Service
7-25-13

     WARREN, Minn. – Back home Wednesday for her 55th class reunion, Janet Anderson visited the Marshall County Historical Society Museum. It’s a routine stop whenever she and her husband, Lyle, return to their hometown from their residence in Sun Valley, Idaho.

The top museum attraction for the Andersons – and many others – is a patrol car from what’s commonly known as the “Warren UFO Encounter” of 1979. . . .

Baffling details

Dennis Brekke, the county sheriff in 1979 and now retired, regaled the Andersons and others about the incident, which involved Deputy Val Johnson, who is believed to now live somewhere in Wisconsin. Johnson appeared on “Good Morning America” soon after the incident, but quickly grew tired of interviews and attention about the episode.

“Val told me that he knew something happened, but he didn’t remember what it was,” Brekke said. “The last thing he remembered was a big light that came all of a sudden.”

County officials wanted the patrol car, a rust-colored 1977 LTD with only 60,000 miles on it, repaired and returned to the fleet. However, Brekke said he convinced them to leave it as it was for public consumption. . . .