1 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:05,640 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:08,680 In this episode we're talking about the Val Johnson incident. 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,960 That's correct, the Val Johnson incident. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,640 Now this happened back in 1979 up in Minnesota. 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,720 This article that we're looking at is from mnopedia.org. 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,120 Mnopedia.org Written by Lizzie Earnhardt Title Val Johnson 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:30,400 Incident 1979 One of the most credible UFO encounters in 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,880 American history unfolded in Minnesota in 1979. 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,080 Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson never claimed that 10 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,240 he saw aliens or spaceships, merely that a force he could not 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,160 identify collided with his car, cracking its windshield and 12 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,720 leaving him unconscious. Johnson's reasonable testimony 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,160 and the evidence left behind on his vehicle made the event a 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,400 popular case among those who study unidentified Arrow 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,160 phenomena. On the night of August 27th, 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,519 1979, Johnson was on patrol in his squad car on a particularly 17 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:07,960 desolate stretch of County Highway 5 in Marshall County, 10 18 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:11,920 miles West of Stephen. At 1:40 AM, he spotted a light 19 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,960 in the sky and turn left on the State Highway 220 to 20 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:17,880 investigate. Thinking it might be a plane 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,400 making an emergency landing, he drove forward. 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,360 However, the light abruptly entered the car itself. 23 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,120 He heard the sound of glass breaking and then lost 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,560 consciousness. Just imagine this guy out there 25 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,720 in this lonely highway. He's by himself, He's a law 26 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,440 enforcement officer. He sees this light. 27 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,560 He turns to investigate and boom, it's on him. 28 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,160 In fact, it's cracked the windshield in his car and spent 29 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,280 the antenna on the car. It's damaged the front end of 30 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,720 the car. He's knocked out. 31 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,040 He's unconscious. When Johnson came to, 39 minutes 32 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,680 had passed. He had eye pain and a bump on 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,560 his head. But the car seemed to have 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,720 suffered worse, sustaining a dented hood, bent antennas, a 35 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,680 shattered windshield, a broken headlight and a broken hazard 36 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,160 light. Both Johnson's wristwatch and 37 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,840 the car's clock had lost 14 minutes. 38 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,840 Whatever impact had cracked the windshield had evidently also 39 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,920 sent the vehicle coasting 850 feet along the road before it 40 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:21,200 stopped at a 90° angle to oncoming traffic, Johnson told 41 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,760 the dispatcher who responded to his call for help. 42 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,400 Quote, something attacked my car. 43 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,840 It wasn't a vehicle. I don't know what it was. 44 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:36,560 Now think about this. He's out for 39 minutes, and 45 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:41,800 both the clock on the car and the wristwatch have lost 14 46 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,680 minutes. Both of them lost 14 minutes. 47 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,360 Isn't that strange to you? Wouldn't you think that they 48 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,560 would have just like quit working? 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,200 That's that's, that's just too much to be a coincidence to me. 50 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,720 And then so we have to ask ourselves, he's got missing 51 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,200 time. What happened? 52 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,160 What happened not just during those 14 minutes, but what 53 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,320 happened during those 39 minutes? 54 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,280 We lost, we lost consciousness. Just what happened to this guy? 55 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,080 Was he abducted? Was his car taken aboard a 56 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,160 craft? And remember these antennas that 57 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,320 were bent, Those are those great big tall antennas, you know, 58 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,960 that used to for the old CBS and radios and stuff just spent them 59 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,080 suckers over just the force of it. 60 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,240 Wow, really something, really something. 61 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,040 Now it says a doctor at a hospital in Warren treated 62 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:32,360 Johnson's eyes, which were injured as if by welders burns. 63 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,960 The Marshall County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Dennis 64 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,160 Breck, then carried out an investigation into the incident. 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,120 The Air Force and Federal Aviation Agency both confirmed 66 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,320 that no aircraft had been scheduled to fly or were 67 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,520 reported in the area in the early hours of August 27th. 68 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,600 Brick also contacted the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, IL, 69 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,840 which concluded magnetic testing on the car with no definitive 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,000 results. In November, a metal engineer 71 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,320 from Honeywell visited the Sheriff's Office to perform his 72 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,960 own test and concluded that an electrical force or thing had 73 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,520 caused the damage. Well, I guess that narrows it 74 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,920 down. Telephone calls flooded into 75 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,000 Burke's office and Johnson's home as news of the incident 76 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,399 spread. Many callers were eager to share 77 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,600 their own personal stories of UFO encounters with someone they 78 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,720 believed would offer a sympathetic error. 79 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,360 Johnson himself appeared on the television show Good Morning 80 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,080 America and told his story on radio shows across the country. 81 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,600 But the attention ultimately became a burden for him and his 82 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,920 family. Johnson's wife, Roseanne, 83 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,680 admitted to the Minneapolis Star in the in September That it's 84 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,000 completely disrupted our family organization. 85 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,480 We have a baby and that takes time. 86 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:52,960 We have one to get off to school and the phone keeps ringing. 87 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:56,760 The family later moved from Oslo to Claret, Wisconsin. 88 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,600 The Val Johnson incident brought national attention to rural 89 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,880 northwestern Minnesota and in particular to warn the county. 90 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,680 Cedar Marshall County. In 2019, Warren residents 91 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,560 celebrated the 40th anniversary of the deputy's encounter with a 92 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,360 public event featuring live music and alien costume contest 93 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,920 and a dramatic reenactment of Johnson's radio call. 94 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,840 The Marshall County Historical Society in Warren preserves 95 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:27,760 documentation of the event as well as the most dramatic 96 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,240 evidence. Johnson's squad car, the damaged 97 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,000 windshield, hood, lights and antennas remain as they appeared 98 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,960 in 1979. The museum's president, Mike 99 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,840 Johnson, no relation, told the Grand Forks Herald in 2013 that 100 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,720 more visitors come to see his institution to see the damaged 101 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,480 vehicle, known as a UFO car, than any other artifact. 102 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,320 Well, I think maybe that's because it's, it's there, it's 103 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,800 in your face, it's real. You have this car this guy was 104 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,080 in, he had his UFO encounter and then we have the damage done to 105 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,480 the car. I'll put the link at at the Kofi 106 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,920 site over there and I have you can look at the pictures at the 107 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,280 link and I put the picture of this car up with this smashed 108 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,720 windshield. Looks like somebody threw up, I 109 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,720 don't know, maybe a rock or something into this thing. 110 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,640 I mean, definitely the force of this phenomenon, whatever it was 111 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,200 coming through this car, I did a number on it. 112 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:29,200 Now the notion that this thing they say here coasted 850 feet, 113 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,680 kind of weird something would hit you from the front and then 114 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,520 you would goes forward. But I suppose, or maybe this 115 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,880 thing was just picked up in the air and placed her. 116 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,680 You know, it says it was placed it was found at a 90° angle in 117 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,080 in the incoming into oncoming traffic. 118 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,160 Once again shows these things have no regard for human life. 119 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,800 I have to wonder about the missing 39 minutes and 120 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,520 especially the 14 minutes where this watch and the clock on the 121 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,920 car stopped. Could be a situation where this 122 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,840 deputy is in this car unconscious. 123 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,760 Maybe a little time passes, this UFO or whatever it is comes 124 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,920 down, takes him in the car on board of craft somewhere. 125 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,440 They're there for this 14 minutes while the time stops 126 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,120 because, you know, maybe the speed you're traveling at, 127 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,000 whatever physical things happening is causing him to lose 128 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,200 time. So you have a 39 minute incident 129 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,360 of which 14 minutes, maybe this guy's a board of craft 130 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,280 somewhere. That's what I'm wondering, and 131 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,920 that might also explain some of his exhaustion on the subject, 132 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,280 maybe as he just relives this thing in his mind. 133 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,200 I would love to talk to this guy and find out if he's had any 134 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,440 kind of recovered memories, if he's had any sort of things come 135 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,840 back to him over the years, if there was any kind of 136 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,680 experience. And also, has he ever been 137 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,920 tested for implants? Now, let's go ahead and look at 138 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,760 one more article on this Val Johnson incident. 139 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,120 I think it's just one of the best UFO encounter cases that as 140 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,240 far as documentation goes, anywhere. 141 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:57,400 So we'll finish up with this last article from KARE 11.com. 142 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:02,600 KARE 11.com. It's written by Chris Haraskeby, 143 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,400 dated August 4th, 2021, so about three years ago. 144 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,640 The title says Minnesota's most notorious UFO sighting remains a 145 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,440 mystery. 4 decades later, a sheriff's deputy encounter with 146 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,600 a hovering light is still unexplained. 147 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,200 And it was more than hovering. I would say it's crashing. 148 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,440 Warren, Minnesota says UFOs are getting a ton of attention 149 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,680 lately after a recent Pentagon report admits to unexplained 150 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,920 aerial phenomena the government can't explain. 151 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,880 Of course, since then, they've come out, of course, and said 152 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,039 there's no such thing as UFOs. Story changes from one week to 153 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,559 the next, it seems like. It turns out what's widely 154 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,679 believed to be among the most significant UFO sightings ever 155 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,080 happened right here in Minnesota. 156 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:45,520 August 27th, 1979 in Warren, MN, about 20 miles from the North 157 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,440 Dakota border. So it's clear up there in 158 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,720 northwest Minnesota. Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy 159 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,840 Val Johnson was on a patrol early in the morning on Hwy. 5 160 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,520 when he saw a bright light to the South on Hwy. 220. 161 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,560 Johnson thought maybe a crashed semi or a downed plane, but as 162 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,720 he approached it, he said the light instantly jumped through 163 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,000 the windshield, hitting him like a 200 LB pillow, knocking him 164 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,680 out. His reaction was preserved in 165 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:16,640 the actual radio call to dispatch when he awoke. 166 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,280 It says Dispatch operator four O 7. 167 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,160 What is your condition, Deputy Johnson? 168 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,320 I don't know. Something just hit my car. 169 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,720 Dispatch, what's your condition? Are you OK? 170 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,880 Johnson? Something attacked my car. 171 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,920 I heard the glass breaking and the locks, the brakes locked up. 172 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,360 I don't know what's going on. According to the Sheriff's 173 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,320 Office investigation reports, Johnson's wristwatch and the 174 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,480 clock on the 1977 Ford Ltd cruiser stopped working for 14 175 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,640 minutes. Johnson said his teeth were 176 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,520 fractured at the gum line and his eyes burned. 177 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,520 Now this sounds like this thing had tremendous force to it. 178 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,400 Whatever it was, my eyes were extremely painful, as if I'd 179 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,120 been subjected to something like an arc welder burn or something, 180 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,320 Said Johnson during an interview on the 1980 TV show. 181 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,960 That's incredible. His story and injuries mystified 182 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,080 the nation, but there's another piece of evidence that still 183 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,280 brings the curious to Marshall County Historical Society 184 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,400 Museum. The squad car damage and all, 185 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,920 this is the big thing they come to see, said Sharon Meyer, 186 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,720 director of the Marshall County Historical Society. 187 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,640 While showing us the actual damage to the squad car, 188 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,560 Whatever hit him started with a broken headlight and up here 189 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:32,800 there is a weird dent on top of the hood, broke the windshield, 190 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,960 hit the reflector and bent both of the antenna. 191 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,160 The Sheriff's Office back in 1979 brought out experts from 192 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,600 Honeywell and Ford Motor Company to examine the damage. 193 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,720 Quote, I have not seen anything like this before. 194 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,200 It said Ford crash investigator merit in French and the that's 195 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,920 incredible show. They are extremely unusual. 196 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,160 Think about that. That's a Ford crash 197 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,000 investigator. You know, you think this guy's 198 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,440 seen it all, but he says no, never seen anything like this. 199 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,400 Dennis Breck, the Marshall County sheriff at the time, said 200 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:07,160 he took Johnson at his word. I feel that whatever Val told me 201 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,600 about the light and the strange incident was true. 202 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,080 I don't doubt Val in any way, said Breck. 203 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,840 In the video. The sheriff tried other means to 204 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,320 get an answer as to what happened to Johnson. 205 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:20,720 Investigative documents show that he reached out to Alan 206 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,400 Hendry, chief investigator with the Center for UFO Studies. 207 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,640 The biggest mystery about the Val Johnson case is trying to 208 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,440 find out one neat explanation for something that could behave 209 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,920 the way he described it, yet create the kinds of damage that 210 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,320 he discovered, said Henry. And that's incredible. 211 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,880 Report no one in 42 years has been able to explain what 212 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,040 happened, including Johnson. And then it has a statement from 213 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,440 Johnson, it says. Upon reflection, we have come to 214 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,520 the conclusion that perhaps the creator has made other things we 215 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,400 can't readily see or readily identify and perhaps this is one 216 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,120 of the things we encountered on the road, said Johnson to a 217 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,800 studio audience during the That's incredible. 218 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,200 Where is Deputy Johnson today? It says people in Warren said 219 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,240 he'd moved away and stopped doing interviews on this a while 220 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,600 ago. We searched online and found an 221 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,240 address for Val Johnson in Wisconsin. 222 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,280 So we drove there and it turns out it was the right man. 223 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,240 We spoke with him for 20 minutes, but he did not want to 224 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,080 go on record because of the stress and attention this has 225 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,080 caused his family for a long time. 226 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,040 He did, however, put it permit us to pass on the notion that he 227 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,880 hopes these new UFO sightings and government reports might 228 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,600 give people new perspective on his story. 229 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,200 What a fascinating case. It's too bad that, you know, you 230 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,160 couldn't come back and do some more interviews with the stuff. 231 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,120 Now they've got some images here also on this site of the 232 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,640 diagram. You know how this whole thing 233 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,240 happened? Looks like a statement from it. 234 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,440 Maybe the investigators. Really cool stuff. 235 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,920 A short report, but very well done. 236 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,040 The diagrams here are cool. Shows the damages. 237 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,360 That shows how it happened. They just did a really I think 238 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,480 stand up job on this investigative report and still 239 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,160 not able to determine what this thing was. 240 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,240 One of the best cases around I think. 241 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,800 Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.