MUFON Case 98654
By Jerred Nelson (Northland MUFON Co-Director) and Keith Bjornson (Witness/pseudonym)
This story is absolutely amazing. It was reported to The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on February 20, 2019. The MN MUFON Chief Investigator was assigned to this case, Bill McNeff. That same MUFON Chief Field Investigator for Minnesota MUFON at the time, asked me to help him with this case. I was a young Field Investigator and had only completed a few cases at that point. I wrote a letter to the owner of the house where this happened but never heard back. I dropped it from there as I really was not sure what to do. If the landowner did not want to talk, then that’s ok. The landowner was not the witness and did not make a report. I wasn’t the assigned FI either. The actual witness in this case had already spoken with the Chief Investigator, so I figured it was done and dusted. Well, as we see, no MUFON case is ever done and dusted!
By a strange coincidence, I recently met the Keith while Northland MUFON was attending “Bigfoot Days” in Remer, MN. We had a table set up and were doing our best to “Spread the Word” about who we are who MUFON is and what we are all about “The scientific Investigation of the UFO/UAP and Experiencer Phenomenon for the Benefit of Humanity”! In a sea of Bigfoot vendors, games, activities, stories, and what-have-you, our little UFO tent actually got more attention than you would have thought!
When Keith Bjornson walked up to our booth, he was more then happy to see us. We started talking about his encounter and as soon as he did, everyone under the tent was attentive. Since the encounter, Keith had written down his experience. He did not share it with MUFON at the time of the original investigation, but he has now. We have re-opened this case, and we plan on doing a site visit if the landowner will allow us. More to come if that becomes possible…
Below is the Witnesses written narrative of the events that morning. I did make changes to the witness’s narration to protect identities and locations. I asked the witness if he could draw the craft but sadly he is unable to.
“This is my Experience on August 25, 2017. UFO. This is a True Story”
This is my story of what happened on Friday August 25, 2017. I was scheduled to drive for the Disabled American Vets (DAV) from Grand Rapids to Minneapolis at around 4am.
I set my alarm clock for 3 a.m. so I could shower and get my paperwork ready. It all started when at 3 a.m. when I sat straight up in bed, fast, in an L shape position, the strange thing is that I never heard the alarm. The room around me was a fog of light glimmering blue with sparkling lights in it. I looked at both of my hands and looked around to see what was going on, but then it started to dissipate. I got up off the edge of the bed still thinking, “What the heck happened?”. I didn’t think anything else about it and just continued to get ready for the day. I still had to leave at 3:30a.m.
I ended up leaving my house at 3:40am that day to head to my pick-up. The city of Grand Rapids is about 17 miles from where I live so I knew I still had time. I was driving towards County Road 56 west. When I turned onto CTY RD 56 I noticed a light coming off a field on my right about ¾ of a mile ahead of me. There was a smaller white pick-up with a pipe rack on back, I watched it as it came up on it, but it kept driving past and never stopped, by the time I got to the spot, that pick-up was already gone. There were some mailboxes on the road by a couple of houses on the left side. You know the type, the line up of mailboxes you see on most rural roads. As I got closer, I could see the light coming off the field, the first words out of my mouth “Oh my God, they are REAL!”. I was initially flabbergasted, this is amazing! About 500 yards straight south of me as I was sitting on the highway was a horse farm. It was at this point that I could see the craft and wow, it was huge! And it was just hovering at about 60 feet over the left side of the house and garage.
There was a light shining from under the right side of the craft that shined onto the front of the house. There were three lights the same distance apart under the craft as well. The craft appeared black and from what I could determine, the width was approximately 100 yards long. It was immense. I determined that distance by comparing it to what I could see on the ground. The house to a shed and a wooden fence under the craft to the east, looked to be about 300 feet. There were horses in a corral on the east side of the shed, but the horses seemed almost frozen in time, they weren’t moving! By this time, I had stopped my truck and hopped out. I walked off the road and towards the craft. The lights were so bright it lit up everything. It was weird but I was not afraid, for some reason I felt comfortable. I started to talk to them asking them “Why are you doing this? Everybody knows you exist?”. I asked them, “Why don’t you help out this word, help with the disease and hunger?” To my surprise they answered back, but all they said to me after I tried talking to them several times, was just “Move on”. They spoke to me through my mind (Move-on) like I could hear them without being face to face. (Move-on).
I don’t like being ignored! It was at that point that I got upset, really upset. In other words, I was pissed off! I started tearing into them. I was yelling at them, “What are you doing flying around like a bunch of thieves in the night? Everyone knows you are on this planet!” Again, I hear “move on.” I continued to say, “Kiss my a$$!” and a few other really bad words I won’t mention here!
I still had to be in Grand Rapids ready to leave by 4:30am for Minneapolis. I checked my watch again and it was 4:05 a.m. So, I turned around and started walking back to my pick-up. It was still running, and the lights were still on. I was still criticizing them, the craft was still there, it did not move an inch. My last words were, “Why don’t you explain to me what your agenda is? No one is going to believe me anyway?” (No response). At that point I just got in my truck and drove off while still watching it hover over the farm.
This next part is hard to explain. I drove about ½ mile past Oriel Rd, at crossroad 255, going down a hill. I looked in my side mirror and to my surprise saw the underbody of the craft coming over me. I couldn’t see the sides of the craft but in the center was a large circle of color. I could see light blue light with tubes and piping in it.
I said to myself, “This isn’t good”. Just then a blast of solid air hit me in the back of the head, almost knocking me out. I saw double vision for a couple of seconds. I quickly looked to the right of me on the seat and could have sworn I saw someone. I then said to this person, “Boy those lights were bright back there”. Whomever was there vanished as quickly as they appeared. I knew they wanted me to lose my memory, but it wasn’t going to happen. I quickly recovered from that and started screaming at them, “I’ve been hit harder my by Grandma!” I stopped my truck and jumped out. All I could see was them drifting off to the north, silent as silent can be.
Still a little stunned, I continued to Grand rapids and was able to get there by 4:30am. The men I was driving showed up and we left. I never brought it up the rest of the day to anyone until I got home that evening at about 7p.m. I had to tell my wife. I could hardly explain without getting upset and loud. She said she believed me, she knows me and understands that something happened that morning, even if she couldn’t understand it either. She knows me, I’m an honest man!
The next day I went out to the farm where it all happened. I knocked on the door and talked to the gentleman who owned the house. He was at home that morning with his three labs. I told him that I had seen UFOs hovering over his house at about 3:30 in the morning the day before. I was a little nervous telling him the story of what happened for obvious reasons. He said he didn’t hear or see anything and that his dogs never barked or woke him up. He said, “What do you think they wanted?” Not much more was said, the conversation kind of stopped. I told him, “Maybe I’ll get back to you sometime.”
Summary:
After I had time to really sit and think about what happened, I realized that they have a pattern in areas around the world. I believe what I saw in my bedroom that morning was them. They went from my house to the farm on CTY RD 56, which is only about 3 miles, as the crow flies, from my place. I just happened to get there before they could finish whatever it is they were doing. I don’t understand why they left those three huge lights on. Maybe they make mistakes too, or maybe they wanted me to know where they were? If those lights had been turned off, I never would have seen them. Their mistake, two in one hour. They are getting increasingly lax about coming forward. There are more and more sightings around the world every day. Many of them without them hiding their existence.
I sent in this MUFON report in February 2019. I was contacted almost immediately by William McNeff, the chief Investigator of MN MUFON at the time. I was surprised and happy that MUFON acted so fast! I knew they would be professional.
I told him I had to talk to someone about what happened to me on that fateful morning in August 2017. All I ever did was think about it and that it bothers me to no end. Bill helped me a lot!
Thankfully, there is a new chapter of MUFON that just started near my home. I’m now able to attend meetings in person. The comradery and personal stories of several of the members have made me feel a little less alone. I know now that strange events happen to a lot of people. They happen more often than one would think. Northland MUFON meets once a month on a Saturday right in Grand Rapids, MN at the VFW. I’ve learned they also meet in Fargo and online all at the same time. Awesome!
