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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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September 11, 1990
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uploaded to KeelyNet courtesy of Mike Peraaho
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Taken from:
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The Pioneer, Bemidji, Minnesota, Friday,
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August 31, 1990
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Witnesses marvel at mystery objects
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by Pat Miller, Staff Writer
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It seems that Bemidji wasn't the lone city on the path of last weeks
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unexpected visitor from the sky as craft of similar description were
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sighted in every corner of the area.
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Reports of sightings have surfaced from Park Rapids, Clearbrook,
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Laporte, Zerkel and Turtle River and the common threads among the
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varying accounts are the lack of noise and the shape.
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Between 9:30 and 10 p.m. last Thursday [August 23, 1990] Dick
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McLaurie of Bemidji and his son Tony were heading home from a
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fishing excursion east of Blackduck when they saw the craft near
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Castle Highlands Golf Course.
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We saw them approaching us from the direction of Bemidji and we
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pulled over to watch the show, said McLaurie. They were about one-
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quarter of a mile away from us and one-quarter of a mile in the air
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and we watched them for about three or four minutes.
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What McLaurie saw was at least five different objects shaped like
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the bullet with wings that Julie Knutson described last week. The
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objects sported a series of light and they all traveled together in
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a convoy formation.
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There were five or six different vehicles flying in a group,
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McLaurie recalled. At first they were moving slowly but then they
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started sparking and sped up. All of a sudden all the lights went
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out and the things really took off in the direction of Blackduck.
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They certainly moved faster than any plane I've ever seen.
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At 9:50 that same evening Tom Crissinger of Northward Ho Resort on
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Long Lake near Park Rapids was among a group of about 14 people who
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saw a similar display.
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They looked like the space shuttle and were about the size of a big
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jet. But they didn't make any noise, Crissinger said. They trailed
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balls of something like fire about a mile long and over the lake
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they were easy to see. We also saw about 20 square windows on the
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side (of the craft) and we kept asking each other if anybody else
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saw the windows. And everyone did.
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The objects continued over the lake in the direction of Bemidji and
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followed a slowly ascending course.
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Greg Gasman of rural Laporte also witnessed the show from his back
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yard between 9:30 and 10 p.m. His immediate attention was on an
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airplane he could clearly hear and see high in the sky but when his
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gaze returned earthward it was interrupted by the sight of three
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unusual visitors low to the ground.
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They were almost touching each other and each one had front lights
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and back lights, he said. The silhouette of each was of a long
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cylindrical object and they were traveling in a convoy.
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Unlike the other reports which had the craft heading in a
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northeasterly direction, Gasman's objects traveled from the
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southeast to the northwest.
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They were heading straight for Bemidji and going northwest, he said.
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What surprised me the most was that there were no sparks, no sign of
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what propelled them, and they made no noise. It was a very quiet
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night but still they didn't make a sound.
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Additional articles appeared in The Pioneer on August 26, 28, and 30
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with similar information.
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Other persons sighting the craft were Wayne Bitz and Dave Mathisen
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of Bemidji, Diane Wagner from the east side of Big Bass Lake, and
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Jami Knutson, 11-year-old daughter of Julie Knutson of Bemidji, and
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NORAD tracked the object on radar.
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Here is an interesting quote from the August 28 story:
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"The official word on the mysterious lights which were visible
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over the Bemidji area Thursday night is (probably) a returning
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rocket body that decayed in space and reentered the
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atmosphere."
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That explanation was offered by Major David Griffard of the North
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American Air Defense Command based at Peterson Air Force Base near
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Colorado Springs, Colo.
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He said he cannot disclose other information about the rocket but
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said NORAD received calls from Minnesota, South Dakota, North
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Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Trinidad about the object.
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A spokesman from the Grand Forks Air Base said that no planes from
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that base were in the air Thursday evening and the objects the
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Knutson's saw did not have their roots at the base.
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