Sightings1979

Deputy Val Johnson's patrol car encounter

When

26 Aug 1979

Where

Warren, MN

Sources

2 public sources

Marshall County deputy Val Johnson said a brilliant light approached his patrol car on a rural highway before dawn and he woke in a ditch with eye burns. The windshield and a headlight were broken and antennas bent. Investigators reached no conclusion; the car is kept at the county museum.