1998: Sighting in Fridley Minnesota

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THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: May, 1998

Sighting Time: 3:30 P.M.

Day/Night: Daytime

Location: Fridley, Minnesota

Urban or Rural: I was heading south on University avenue at about 69th avenue in Fridley. The day was calm and the sky was clear, about 80 degrees outside. I’ve tried not to sound like a lunatic but this will be the only thing that I leave out of the story if I tell a close friend… It looked like the lights flew in, hovered in the sky just north of downtown 2 of the lights seemed to go to do something else the third tried to wait for the fourth but just left… the third seemed to be checking out the city flying from the southeast section then flew across to the southwest then up then down and across again, finished up its little flight and flew in a split second south and vanished…. it acted intelligently!

Hynek Classification: CE-I (Close Encounter I) Observation of an object in close proximity to the witness (i.e. within 500’)

Duration: 2 1/2 minutes

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s): If you held your arms at length 3 of the lights were like holding up a pea, the third was as large as a dime(slightly smaller). There actual size may be about twice the size of a passenger jet.

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): 4 bright white lights independent of each other. Each light was round and a little bit hazy but very bright. One of the lights was larger than the other and was much easier to see.

Color of Object(s): 4 bright white lights

Number of Witnesses: 2

Source:

Summary/Description: 4 balls of light in the southeastern portion of the sky, over the northern suburbs of Minneapolis. 3 of the lights in the sky stayed in one spot for 2 1/2 minutes then flew extremely fast towards the south. The remaining light began to fly in a zig-zag motions then flew south like the others. Happened at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon.

Full Report

I was driving south on University avenue through Fridley when my passenger and I noticed some faint lights off in the southeastern sky. About 30 seconds passed by and we could then see the 4 balls of light clearly. Neither of us could believe what we were seeing. The bright white lights looked as if they were hovering a few thousand feet off the ground over the northern section of Minneapolis. It was a clear day with no clouds. I slowed down my car and leaned part way out the window to see more clearly. My passenger and I explained to each other what we were seeing as it was happening. 2 of the lights seemed to fade a little then seemed to zoom south across the horizon, a few seconds later the 3rd seemed to do the same. The brightest ball began to move across the sky at first to the southwest….it didn’t just slowly fly either, it covered a huge distance in less than a second then made an immediate turn and flew higher and to the northeast… I’m guessing each time it cruised across the sky it was flying more than 20 miles. It continued to make what would be absolutely impossible maneuvers for about 45 seconds then shot across the sky southwest.

I am leaving this description for anyone to take from it what they will. I know what I saw. I had a witness with me. This experience left us physically shaking because we had NO explanation for what happened. This wasn’t a split second thing… we watched these balls of light hovering in mid-air then speed away at thousands of miles per hour! The last one was the icing on the cake and brought me to an all out sweat because this (whatever it was) was intelligently cruising around above the city making sharp zigzag maneuvers that no rocket,plane,helicopter, missile could make.

I was close minded before this event…. now I’m just freaked out. It’s been eight years since this happened and I can’t get it out of my head.