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what's up guys Ryan Sprague here for

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another episode of Case Files and today

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we're gonna be asking the question did a

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UFO collide or attack a deputy sheriff's

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police car this is the veljohnson UFO

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incident one of the most baffling UFO

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cases ever reported took place in

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Minnesota in the early morning of August

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27th 1979 deputy sheriff Val Johnson of

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the Marshall County Sheriff's Department

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was on patrol that morning when he

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noticed an extremely bright light coming

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through the side window of his patrol

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car he reported that the light was much

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stronger than any light or motor vehicle

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on the road could produce his first

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thought was that it could potentially be

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an airplane smuggling in drugs from

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Canada he surmised the plane may have

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crashed or was about to crash he turned

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on the road to moving close in head

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towards the light to investigate the

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last thing you remembered was that the

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light came barreling towards him and

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reached the patrol car so fast that it

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seemed like it happened in a mere

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instant he heard glass breaking and then

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he went unconscious

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a friendly analysis of the accident it

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was estimated that deputy Johnson was

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unconscious for about 39 minutes when he

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awoke he radioed headquarters for help

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in a weak voice stating that something

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had hit his patrol car but he did not

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know what when a second deputy arrived

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on the scene he immediately called the

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ambulance and deputy Johnson was taken

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to the nearby Warren Hospital

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deputy Johnson's eyes were reported to

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be red and puffy the medical doctor who

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examined the deputy said the injuries to

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his eyes looked like they had been

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inflicted by a welder's torch

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he also said deputy Johnson was in a

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state of shock the Marshall County

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Sheriff's Department investigated the

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Bell Johnson UFO incident extensively

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but experts were also brought in because

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the physical evidence left behind was so

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baffling the windshield of the patrol

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car was badly cracked from top to bottom

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however the patterns in which it was

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broken defied normal analysis it did not

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seem to be the result of an outside

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force or inside force it almost seemed

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as if there were both inside and outside

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forces working simultaneously

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to create a fractured pattern that the

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investigators had never seen before or

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can explain with ordinary techniques

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they concluded that there seemed to be

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four separate areas of impact but could

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not even hazard a guess as to what

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caused the pattern we saw on the left

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side of the front hood of the patrol car

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there was a strange one-and-a-half inch

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circular dent

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the headlights were broken on the side

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of both the inside and the outside of

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the patrol car

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however the headlights on the other side

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of the patrol car were left untouched

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the main antenna was inexplicably bent

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at a 60 degree angle starting there six

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inches from the base of the antenna the

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antenna in the truck was also damaged

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what are the strangest things the

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investigators found was that the patrol

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car clock was behind 14 minutes and

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deputy Johnson's wristwatch was also

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behind the exact same amount of time

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before the incident both the patrol car

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clock and deputy Johnson's wristwatch

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had been synchronized with the clock at

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headquarters no logical explanation has

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ever been given for why the patrol car

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clock and the wristwatch were both

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affected in the exact same way while

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there are many experts involved in

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analyzing the damage patrol car and

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other physical evidence one is

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particularly noteworthy

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this was J Allen Hynek the consultant

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for the US Air Force's UFO project

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Bluebook as dr. Hynek and his team

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investigated the veljohnson UFO incident

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he concluded that it was not a hoax

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further nothing in deputy Johnson's

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statement seemed untruthful dr. Hynek

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proposed that the cracked windshield had

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been damaged by rocks being carried in a

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wake of a very large object moving at

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extraordinary speeds further he proposed

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that the antenna had been bent for the

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sheer velocity of the air that rush past

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the patrol car that night the patrol car

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is now unpermitted display at the

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Marshall County Historical Society

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Museum it is always one of the top

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attractions during the annual Minnesota

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County Fair when the incident occurred

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in 1979 there were only about 60,000

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miles on the patrol car so the Marshall

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County Sheriff officials wanted the car

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repaired and put back into commission

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however

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sheriff Dennis Breck convinced them to

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decommission the car and put it on

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public display

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the patrol car has achieved legendary

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status among those who believe in

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paranormal phenomena and UFOs in fact

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the veljohnson incident is so famous

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there have been two documentary style

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television programs devoted to it

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Bell Johnson received much attention for

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the incident so much in fact that he

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told the press that the incident had

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caused a great deal of emotional strain

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on himself and his family while he did

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appear on several interviews with local

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news and even Good Morning America he

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began to withdraw from other press

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appearances

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no matter what this UFO encounter will

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live in the history books as one of the

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most fascinating UFO cases of all time

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still to this day beads and services one

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of the very best cases for physical

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evidence was left behind by a UFO every

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year since the incident Warren Minnesota

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has received a great many visitors

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wishing to see for themselves the patrol

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car with its peculiar damage in the area

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where the incident occurred the light

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was coming at me was extremely bright

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the inside of the car lit up I remember

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that and it was a very dazzling

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brilliant occurrence something did

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strike my vehicle something didn't want

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me there apparently or it was you know I