1 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: Anoka, Minnesota, the police and the FBI by UFO History 2 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,600 buff the author Charles Lear. By the way, this is 3 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,479 not AI, this is really me. Recently, there have been 4 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:38,159 reports throughout the media that FBI files concerning a UFO 5 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:43,920 sighting reported by three Onoka, Minnesota police officers have been 6 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:50,200 declassified and are available at the National Archives. Remarkably, almost 7 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:53,759 none of the media outlets covering the story provide a 8 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,719 link to the actual document, with the exception of one 9 00:00:57,799 --> 00:01:02,679 news outlet, k r E eleven, which was kind enough 10 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:07,200 to provide a PDF with one of the FBI documents 11 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:12,920 and related material from America's for Safe Aerospace and the 12 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,200 National UFO Reporting Center. There is an article by Carner 13 00:01:18,359 --> 00:01:22,439 White of the CBS News site which was updated May 14 00:01:22,519 --> 00:01:29,519 twenty eighth, twenty twenty six, headlined quote newly declassified FBI 15 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:35,359 documents detail UFO sighting by Anoka officers and one of 16 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:41,000 them filmed it on quote. White is with CBS Minnesota 17 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,480 and starts his story with this quote, Buried within the 18 00:01:46,599 --> 00:01:52,439 National Archives is an unexplained sighting from right here in Minnesota. 19 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,000 Buried is an apt description, as the documents were quite 20 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,719 hard to find in the National Archives. Catalog, but a 21 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:06,640 search with quote group sixteen Unidentified Anomalist Phenomenon Records Collection 22 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:11,599 quote brought us to the records from the FBI, which 23 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:14,639 led us to the files related to the Innoka case, 24 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,080 which are the top three in a series of six results. 25 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,000 The top file from FBI Cincinnati has dated March tenth, 26 00:02:24,159 --> 00:02:29,319 twenty twenty five, and has identified after the redactacase ID 27 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:36,280 number as observation of UAP by Anoka Police Department personnel. 28 00:02:36,439 --> 00:02:42,039 According to the section headed quote details, on February nineteenth, 29 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:47,039 twenty twenty five, at one fifteen am, three officers observed 30 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,879 a UAP for ninety minutes. It seemed to be at 31 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:55,840 an altitude of ten thousand to thirty thousand feet and 32 00:02:55,879 --> 00:02:59,919 at one point possibly fifty miles away. It exhibited a 33 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:07,439 light display described as rapidly changing tide multicolor lighting, which 34 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,439 was inconsistent with known aircraft lights. It was additionally described 35 00:03:12,479 --> 00:03:16,039 as having had the appearance of an illustration of an 36 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:22,199 atom with six quote hula hoops lights around each loop unquote. 37 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:25,360 It was said to have been able to move extremely fast, 38 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:29,039 seeming to travel thirty forty miles in seconds, with a 39 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,960 movement that skipped across the sky like a stone, and 40 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,439 to have possibly have flown close to the Monticello Nuclear 41 00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:40,400 Power Plant. One of the officers put his phone up 42 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:43,960 to the binoculars he was using to observe the object 43 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,479 and captured some video footage of it. This resulted, though 44 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:53,599 in the video being blurred. After details, it is explained 45 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,879 that the FBI Cincinnati got the report from a liaison 46 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:05,840 partnering organization Americans for Safe Aerospects. The ASA report with 47 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:10,560 the initial interview with the witness is said to be attached. 48 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:14,680 The ASA report is also said to contain a description 49 00:04:14,919 --> 00:04:19,199 of another sighting by the witness on February seventeenth, twenty 50 00:04:19,319 --> 00:04:24,279 twenty five. The second document down is from FBI Minnesota, 51 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:29,360 dated May nine, twenty twenty five. It contains the details 52 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:33,199 of an interview of whom we'll call the witness in 53 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:37,079 his office at Anoka Police Department by an FBI agent. 54 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,560 According to the document, the witness said that he and 55 00:04:40,639 --> 00:04:45,399 other officers were and the local Domino's Pizza parking lot 56 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:50,279 for an after action briefing after training. He described the 57 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,959 object as a multicolored gyroscope and was about the size 58 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,439 of an suv or school bus. He said it was 59 00:04:57,519 --> 00:05:02,519 southwest of his position, towards minna Oka, Minnesota, and that 60 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,839 when a private airplane flying from the southeast got close 61 00:05:05,879 --> 00:05:10,600 to the object, descended, moved around the path of the airplane, ascended, 62 00:05:10,879 --> 00:05:16,040 and hovered. He said it then moved in three separate bursts, 63 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,040 hovered west of him toward Monticello, and then descended, in 64 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,319 the words of the report agent, like a leaf floating 65 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,000 on a breeze. The witness said that when he was 66 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,120 leaving the parking lot to meet someone at the local 67 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,879 quick trip, he saw, in the agent's words, a second 68 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,040 object similar to the first, followed it for about twelve 69 00:05:42,079 --> 00:05:46,480 miles down Highway ten, watched it as it hovered over Monticello, 70 00:05:47,079 --> 00:05:50,720 and then continued to the quick trip. The witness also 71 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,639 provided information on two other sightings he'd had, one recorded 72 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,360 on his phone September eleventh, twenty twenty two, of a 73 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:05,839 hovering object near the Aninoka Ice Arena that then rapidly ascended, 74 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,560 and another when he was younger, of an agent's words, 75 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:14,199 a large yellow and orange orb hovering over the lake 76 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:18,600 at his parents' cabin. In addition to his own sightings, 77 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,759 the witness said that a friend had three flashes of 78 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:26,000 light while driving, recording the third flash and gave him 79 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:31,519 the video. The document concludes stating that the case is 80 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,720 closed unless additional information is received that might give reason 81 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,839 for the case to be reopened. The third file down 82 00:06:40,079 --> 00:06:43,160 is the latest one pertaining to the case, and it 83 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:48,279 is the same as what is linked by kare E eleven, 84 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,720 except that there is a copy of the video taken 85 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:56,639 by the witness. The FBI document, identified as quote f 86 00:06:56,759 --> 00:07:02,199 DASH seventy one a dash Guardian plant form unquote, is 87 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,759 dated May fifteenth, twenty twenty five. The first page is 88 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:10,199 a duplicate of the March tenth form, while the second 89 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:16,079 lists the attachments from Newfork ASA and the video. The 90 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,879 first new Fork attachment is a report dated January sixteenth, 91 00:07:21,279 --> 00:07:25,240 twenty twenty five, of a white light seen that same 92 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:29,279 day by three witnesses driving down Highway ten, and the 93 00:07:29,439 --> 00:07:33,240 second is dated February twentieth, twenty twenty five and has 94 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:38,120 details of a January seventeenth, twenty twenty five, sighting from 95 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:42,680 a deck in Saint Paul, Minnesota, of a diamond shaped, 96 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:48,240 multi colored object that traveled at a quote unexplainable speed 97 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,560 and direction. Then disappeared quote, and caused animals to react. 98 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:57,560 The ASA report begins with a statement that might explain 99 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,959 the involvement of the FBI. Quote below is a report 100 00:08:03,079 --> 00:08:08,720 which might involve nuclear energy infrastructure unquote. The FBI has 101 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,439 details that are missing in the FBI documents, not least 102 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,040 of which is that it states there were a total 103 00:08:16,079 --> 00:08:20,560 of four witnesses, including the reporting witness. According to the 104 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,759 witness statement, after the initial sighting with two co workers, 105 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,360 the witness went to his office to get a pair 106 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,920 of Bushnell binoculars and to put and took up a 107 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,120 new position on the parking ramp, and then continued observing 108 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:39,919 the object with three co workers. The witness says a 109 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,480 helicopter flew between them and the object, and that this 110 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:46,519 seemed to prompt the object to move off rapidly to 111 00:08:46,639 --> 00:08:51,080 the north and gain altitude. The witness also says that 112 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,919 a coworker drove ten miles down Highway ten and reported 113 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,759 the object was still far off to the west of 114 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,200 him airplane and the object's apparent reaction to it described 115 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,080 as in the other reports. The witness describes seeing the 116 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,919 second object, says it was similar to and much closer 117 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,759 than the first object, and that he wasn't able to 118 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,639 stay and monitor it. There is no mention of him 119 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,120 following it down Highway ten. Finally, he says he saw 120 00:09:23,159 --> 00:09:27,600 a similar object on February seventeenth, twenty twenty five, and 121 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,360 that he did not discuss it with anyone until seeing 122 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:35,360 the object with his coworkers on February nineteenth. For insight 123 00:09:35,519 --> 00:09:39,879 into the background of the relationship between ASA and the FBI, 124 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:45,360 there's an article by Daniel Lippman headlined quote FBI agents 125 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:49,320 who investigate UFOs where they could be pushed out in 126 00:09:49,399 --> 00:09:54,120 a possible purge unquote, posted February third, twenty twenty five, 127 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,120 and that was on Politico. The sub had reads the 128 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,120 existence of the FBI's informal working group on the issue 129 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:07,799 has not been disclosed publicly before. Founder and ASA executive 130 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,879 director Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot, is quoted expressing 131 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,759 concern that the FBI's UAP working group could be affected 132 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:23,000 by transitioning changes. Lippmann describes the group as informal and 133 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,159 says that Graves and three others were familiar with it 134 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,679 and that they described it in this way. It consists 135 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,759 of a national program manager and more than a dozen 136 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:36,159 employees across the country who spend much of their time 137 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,080 tracking down UAPs. According to Lippman, Graves said that ASA 138 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,039 has been working with the group for over a year. 139 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:48,120 Lippman includes a statement from the FBI to the effect 140 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:53,080 that it investigates unidentified anomalous phenomena when there is a 141 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,879 potential a violation of federal law. Charles Lear is the 142 00:10:57,919 --> 00:11:01,960 author of The Flying Saucer Investment Sigators in its second 143 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:25,000 edition on Amazon dot com. Thank you, m mm hmm.