ND’s New Mutual UFO Network Chapter, Northland MUFON, Now Operating

“So, that’s the reason for my interest. Every couple of years, I would make a little trip to Cavalier for a couple of days. I was there, staying at a little motel, and decided I wanted to go out for a walk in the neighborhood. I’m walking along and all of a sudden, I’m thinking, ‘What is that?’ And I couldn’t quite tell, it looked like a warehouse that was above the ground—so it got my attention. As I was walking, I was able to get a little bit clearer view because I was right at the edge of town, and there were homes there. I got to the spot where there was kind of an empty lot and I had a better view. So I’m standing there, looking at this thing, and my brain is trying to figure out what it is I’m looking at, because it looks to me to be white but it was being illuminated by the setting sun. And it was huge. It was about the size of a big warehouse or like a football field or something. It was really hard to determine how close it was to me because it was so big. My brain was trying to find a reasonable explanation for what I’m seeing. I’m standing there in the street and I noticed, ‘Oh, no, the Oz Effect.’ I don’t hear anything, I don’t hear crickets. I don’t hear dogs barking off in the distance. What I can hear is a swing, going back and forth, squeaking. There was a little girl in the backyard, swinging on a swing set. I looked at her, she looked at me and she got off the swing. In my mind, she’s probably wondering, ‘I don’t know this person. Why is she staring up there?’ So, she starts looking at it, and then she starts yelling to her mom, ‘Mom, what is that? What is that?’ Her mom comes out and she takes her by the hand and runs her into the house. I’m still standing there, looking at that and thinking, ‘What’s going on?’ And it drives me crazy, but did I take a picture of it? No. Did I even think to take a picture of it? No. And even stranger, I started feeling bored. Like, I was losing interest in what I was seeing. It was moving very slowly. So, after maybe 10 or 15 minutes of standing in the middle of the street, I start moving. And I started walking, I’m thinking, ‘Okay, that’s interesting.’ I’m watching it, I keep looking up between homes where I can see it, and it’s gradually getting farther and farther away. I notice that the only sound I can hear is just my feet on the pavement and my breathing. I’m looking around for other people and I don’t see anybody or anything. There’s nothing moving. I’m weirded out by that and think, ‘It’s time to go back to reality here.’ So, I stopped again, and I watched it for a couple more minutes, and it was really getting far away by that point, I thought it must be over Canada by then because it was going in that direction and it appeared to be in Canadian airspace.”