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I'm sitting waiting for a phone call that may never happen, and I started thinking about the weird, strange stuff that has happened to me. So I figured I'd type it up.
#1: Spring time 1977, Plymouth, MN. High school student with friends. About 11:00 PM, I was riding in the passenger seat of my friend Andy's 1970 Lincoln 4 door. Andy was driving, 2 or 3 other friends were in the back seat. All of a sudden, there was an intense light illuminating the inside of the car, light the color and intensity of arc welding. It seemed to be coming from right behind and slightly above the back window, from 2 separate sources about 10 feet apart. There was a loud humming and roaring noise, and the windshield wipers came on by themselves at a speed faster than high. It only lasted a few seconds, then the light and the sound rose up above us and dissipated, and the wipers stopped. We all were totally astonished and puzzled, then we laughed our buts off about it. Later, it seemed like a weird dream. What was it? I have no idea.
#2: May 1988, mid day. I was in a canoe fishing on a 10 acre pond on our farm in Wright County, Minnesota. Partly sunny skies, the wind changed direction constantly, and blew me from one end of the pond to the other several times. Nice, I don't need to paddle, I can fish the whole pond the easy way. When I was blown against the bulrushes on the northeast end, I observed the formation of a waterspout, about 350' to the southwest of me, over the open water, and touching the water at its base. It looked like a small tornado, about 150' tall, and 1-2' diameter. Of course it started moving right towards me, moving pretty quick. As it got closer, it became apparent that it was going to run right into me! I grabbed the gunwales of the canoe, and hung on as tight as humanly possible. Suddenly, I could feel see the canoe rise off the water, about 2 feet, and I just hung on. Then with a loud slap, the canoe dropped right back down onto the surface, still upright. As soon as it hit land, the twister became translucent, then after traveling another 200', it disappeared. My paddles had blown away, and I was splattered with seaweed.
#3 December 1991: I stopped at a friends house in Minnetonka, MN to pick him up for a trip to Illinois. I arrived at 5:00 AM as planned. The house was dark, so I pounded on the door. A light came on. He was still sleeping, and my pounding woke him up . So I went and sat in the truck while I was waiting for him to get ready. I was looking straight west into the night sky. The temp was about 20 degrees F, no moon, no clouds, no dawn, the only light was from stars shining bright. I noticed a green light, like a green star or planet, about 25 degrees above the horizon. It was not completely stationary, but almost. It just seemed to hover. It did not blink or flicker, it was steady in its color and intensity. I could not tell if it was a mile away, or a million miles, because I didn't know its size. Suddenly, it took off, accelerating very rapidly, heading straight south. It did not ascend or descend, just went in a straight line, going faster and faster, until in about 4 seconds it had traveled beyond my view. I had no Idea what it was, and over time I started to wonder if I really saw it. Then 15 years later, thanks to the internet, I found out what it was: a green fireball. A known and studied type of UFO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fireballs
#4 Approximately 1997. I don't remember the exact time of year, but it was warm out, and there was no snow. Mid-day, I was sitting in my 17' x17' office, at my desk. Ground level, 5x6' picture window to my left, with the blinds shut. An employee, Fritz, was sitting in a chair across the desk from me. Suddenly, I heard a loud, crashing, glass breaking sound from the window. My mind raced ahead of my vision, and I thought that either someone shot out my window with a shotgun, or a car was crashing through the wall. Fritz dove across my desk to take shelter, and the next think I knew there was a large buck whitetail deer standing in my office. Its antlers were broke partially off, leaving jagged stumps about 6-9" long, and its snoot was cut and bleeding, dripping on my carpet. While Fritz was thinking of self preservation, hiding under the desk, me being a business man, my first thought was of the cost of the window and carpet, and what was my insurance deductible. But very quickly, the gravity of the situation settled into my consciousness. Would he attack? How would I get him out? What to do? Well, after about 10 seconds of milling around the office, the buck jumped back out the window and left. A few chunks of antler, and a $980 repair bill against my $1000 deductible is all I had.
Indeed, truth is stranger than fiction. Anything strange happen to anyone else?
#1: Spring time 1977, Plymouth, MN. High school student with friends. About 11:00 PM, I was riding in the passenger seat of my friend Andy's 1970 Lincoln 4 door. Andy was driving, 2 or 3 other friends were in the back seat. All of a sudden, there was an intense light illuminating the inside of the car, light the color and intensity of arc welding. It seemed to be coming from right behind and slightly above the back window, from 2 separate sources about 10 feet apart. There was a loud humming and roaring noise, and the windshield wipers came on by themselves at a speed faster than high. It only lasted a few seconds, then the light and the sound rose up above us and dissipated, and the wipers stopped. We all were totally astonished and puzzled, then we laughed our buts off about it. Later, it seemed like a weird dream. What was it? I have no idea.
#2: May 1988, mid day. I was in a canoe fishing on a 10 acre pond on our farm in Wright County, Minnesota. Partly sunny skies, the wind changed direction constantly, and blew me from one end of the pond to the other several times. Nice, I don't need to paddle, I can fish the whole pond the easy way. When I was blown against the bulrushes on the northeast end, I observed the formation of a waterspout, about 350' to the southwest of me, over the open water, and touching the water at its base. It looked like a small tornado, about 150' tall, and 1-2' diameter. Of course it started moving right towards me, moving pretty quick. As it got closer, it became apparent that it was going to run right into me! I grabbed the gunwales of the canoe, and hung on as tight as humanly possible. Suddenly, I could feel see the canoe rise off the water, about 2 feet, and I just hung on. Then with a loud slap, the canoe dropped right back down onto the surface, still upright. As soon as it hit land, the twister became translucent, then after traveling another 200', it disappeared. My paddles had blown away, and I was splattered with seaweed.
#3 December 1991: I stopped at a friends house in Minnetonka, MN to pick him up for a trip to Illinois. I arrived at 5:00 AM as planned. The house was dark, so I pounded on the door. A light came on. He was still sleeping, and my pounding woke him up . So I went and sat in the truck while I was waiting for him to get ready. I was looking straight west into the night sky. The temp was about 20 degrees F, no moon, no clouds, no dawn, the only light was from stars shining bright. I noticed a green light, like a green star or planet, about 25 degrees above the horizon. It was not completely stationary, but almost. It just seemed to hover. It did not blink or flicker, it was steady in its color and intensity. I could not tell if it was a mile away, or a million miles, because I didn't know its size. Suddenly, it took off, accelerating very rapidly, heading straight south. It did not ascend or descend, just went in a straight line, going faster and faster, until in about 4 seconds it had traveled beyond my view. I had no Idea what it was, and over time I started to wonder if I really saw it. Then 15 years later, thanks to the internet, I found out what it was: a green fireball. A known and studied type of UFO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fireballs
#4 Approximately 1997. I don't remember the exact time of year, but it was warm out, and there was no snow. Mid-day, I was sitting in my 17' x17' office, at my desk. Ground level, 5x6' picture window to my left, with the blinds shut. An employee, Fritz, was sitting in a chair across the desk from me. Suddenly, I heard a loud, crashing, glass breaking sound from the window. My mind raced ahead of my vision, and I thought that either someone shot out my window with a shotgun, or a car was crashing through the wall. Fritz dove across my desk to take shelter, and the next think I knew there was a large buck whitetail deer standing in my office. Its antlers were broke partially off, leaving jagged stumps about 6-9" long, and its snoot was cut and bleeding, dripping on my carpet. While Fritz was thinking of self preservation, hiding under the desk, me being a business man, my first thought was of the cost of the window and carpet, and what was my insurance deductible. But very quickly, the gravity of the situation settled into my consciousness. Would he attack? How would I get him out? What to do? Well, after about 10 seconds of milling around the office, the buck jumped back out the window and left. A few chunks of antler, and a $980 repair bill against my $1000 deductible is all I had.
Indeed, truth is stranger than fiction. Anything strange happen to anyone else?
We laughed for at least the next two hours.
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