Minnesota’s ‘Most Notorious UFO Case’ Solved After 40 Years?

New witnesses, remote viewing shed light on the famous incident sometimes called ‘Minnesota’s Roswell’

Ken Korczak
10 min readDec 26, 2021

Note: This is the first installment of a 4-part series.

When I was growing up in the tiny Minnesota town of Greenbush, population 714, our neighbor just across a narrow dirt alley was a pleasant woman who worked as a nurse. Her name was Daisy.

Daisy’s daughter was named after a flower too. Her name is Rose.

Rose grew up and married a guy from a nearby small town. That man was Val Johnson, a sheriff’s deputy in northwest Minnesota’s Marshall County. One late summer night in 1979, deputy Johnson would be thrust into international headlines and gain a lot more than his proverbial 15 minutes of fame.

That’s because his car police collided head-on with a 4-to-6-foot-wide orb-like “UFO.” The sensational nature of his bizarre encounter garnered Johnson a lot more than his allotted “15 minutes.”

Indeed, the event would follow him incessantly for the rest of his life.

Now more than 40 years later — to this day — Johnson still gets calls from journalists, podcasters, UFO buffs and sundry curiosity seekers from around the world…

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Ken Korczak

Newspaper journalist by trade, then went freelance and have been writing stuff for cold hard cash for 40 years.