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 a large “metallic ball of light” that he described being “bright as 50 arc welders” descended from the sky in an irregular flight pattern ahead of them, hovering above the right side of the road. He had a driving partner with him that saw this as well. This craft or manifestation of energy moved into the tree line as they got closer. My grandfather parked on the side of the road, the light was stationary about 80’ into the tree line. He grabbed a hammer from his tool box and attempted to leave to leave the truck and investigate but his co worker held his arm and pleaded with him, reminding him of his children at home. He reluctantly submitted and they drove away from the light due to his coworkers fear. After hearing this story for the um-teenth time I decided to google it and was mind blown when I came across the story of Val Johnson. Time: August 27th, 1979 Location: 16 miles outside of Stephen, Minnesota. Val Johnson was a police officer who encountered an orb of light and subsequently crashed his police cruiser. He had a memory lapse, missing time as is common with abduction stories, his watch and the clock in his cruiser were both 14 minutes delayed and he had burns on his eyes similar to welders flash. When I found this story it felt like too many parallels not to be creepy, my grandfather had a quiet look of happy validation when I read about it to him. Personal unrelated sightings: Time: July, Midnight, 2017 Location: Near Woodridge, Manitoba, Canada, two hours north of Stephen. I was driving eastwards and saw a black orb with a singular spotlight on one side of it. It was glossy and seamless, hovering at times, moving extremely close to the tops of trees rotating and shining light on things. I watched it for roughly 5 minutes. It moved from the north to the south side of the road and hovered above a field in my parent’s property. The place I would park while living there was beside this field. I exited my vehicle and watched it poke around a mere few hundred yards away from me. It made no noise and seemed uninterested in my vehicle and physical presence. It eventually just slowly moseyed on away from me. In the same location, same time of year, several years later I was outside at night having a cigarette when for a split second everything outside lit up bright, like a fraction of a second of daylight. I thought my brain had glitched and didn’t speak of it. A few months later a relative and neighbour saw an orb shaped craft in the sky, flying just above the tree level. It emitted an incredibly bright light, like a simulation of daylight for a split second, then was no where to be seen. He received a phone call from another neighbour asking if he had seen it… that’s when I shared my encounter. Three people seeing the same thing makes it real to me. Random lights flying in irregular patterns is a common sight out here… so much so once my mother saw a ufo at night, shook awake my stepfather to show him. He rolled over, watched it zig zag then said: “ you woke me up for that!?” lol like it’s so common it’s not a big deal to any of us anymore but these were a few of the stranger stories. submitted by /u/Double_Sun_Dog [link] [comments]