Speaker 1: Anoka, Minnesota, the police and the FBI by UFO History
buff the author Charles Lear. By the way, this is
not AI, this is really me. Recently, there have been
reports throughout the media that FBI files concerning a UFO
sighting reported by three Onoka, Minnesota police officers have been
declassified and are available at the National Archives. Remarkably, almost
none of the media outlets covering the story provide a
link to the actual document, with the exception of one
news outlet, k r E eleven, which was kind enough
to provide a PDF with one of the FBI documents
and related material from America's for Safe Aerospace and the
National UFO Reporting Center. There is an article by Carner
White of the CBS News site which was updated May
twenty eighth, twenty twenty six, headlined quote newly declassified FBI
documents detail UFO sighting by Anoka officers and one of
them filmed it on quote. White is with CBS Minnesota
and starts his story with this quote, Buried within the
National Archives is an unexplained sighting from right here in Minnesota.
Buried is an apt description, as the documents were quite
hard to find in the National Archives. Catalog, but a
search with quote group sixteen Unidentified Anomalist Phenomenon Records Collection
quote brought us to the records from the FBI, which
led us to the files related to the Innoka case,
which are the top three in a series of six results.
The top file from FBI Cincinnati has dated March tenth,
twenty twenty five, and has identified after the redactacase ID
number as observation of UAP by Anoka Police Department personnel.
According to the section headed quote details, on February nineteenth,
twenty twenty five, at one fifteen am, three officers observed
a UAP for ninety minutes. It seemed to be at
an altitude of ten thousand to thirty thousand feet and
at one point possibly fifty miles away. It exhibited a
light display described as rapidly changing tide multicolor lighting, which
was inconsistent with known aircraft lights. It was additionally described
as having had the appearance of an illustration of an
atom with six quote hula hoops lights around each loop unquote.
It was said to have been able to move extremely fast,
seeming to travel thirty forty miles in seconds, with a
movement that skipped across the sky like a stone, and
to have possibly have flown close to the Monticello Nuclear
Power Plant. One of the officers put his phone up
to the binoculars he was using to observe the object
and captured some video footage of it. This resulted, though
in the video being blurred. After details, it is explained
that the FBI Cincinnati got the report from a liaison
partnering organization Americans for Safe Aerospects. The ASA report with
the initial interview with the witness is said to be attached.
The ASA report is also said to contain a description
of another sighting by the witness on February seventeenth, twenty
twenty five. The second document down is from FBI Minnesota,
dated May nine, twenty twenty five. It contains the details
of an interview of whom we'll call the witness in
his office at Anoka Police Department by an FBI agent.
According to the document, the witness said that he and
other officers were and the local Domino's Pizza parking lot
for an after action briefing after training. He described the
object as a multicolored gyroscope and was about the size
of an suv or school bus. He said it was
southwest of his position, towards minna Oka, Minnesota, and that
when a private airplane flying from the southeast got close
to the object, descended, moved around the path of the airplane, ascended,
and hovered. He said it then moved in three separate bursts,
hovered west of him toward Monticello, and then descended, in
the words of the report agent, like a leaf floating
on a breeze. The witness said that when he was
leaving the parking lot to meet someone at the local
quick trip, he saw, in the agent's words, a second
object similar to the first, followed it for about twelve
miles down Highway ten, watched it as it hovered over Monticello,
and then continued to the quick trip. The witness also
provided information on two other sightings he'd had, one recorded
on his phone September eleventh, twenty twenty two, of a
hovering object near the Aninoka Ice Arena that then rapidly ascended,
and another when he was younger, of an agent's words,
a large yellow and orange orb hovering over the lake
at his parents' cabin. In addition to his own sightings,
the witness said that a friend had three flashes of
light while driving, recording the third flash and gave him
the video. The document concludes stating that the case is
closed unless additional information is received that might give reason
for the case to be reopened. The third file down
is the latest one pertaining to the case, and it
is the same as what is linked by kare E eleven,
except that there is a copy of the video taken
by the witness. The FBI document, identified as quote f
DASH seventy one a dash Guardian plant form unquote, is
dated May fifteenth, twenty twenty five. The first page is
a duplicate of the March tenth form, while the second
lists the attachments from Newfork ASA and the video. The
first new Fork attachment is a report dated January sixteenth,
twenty twenty five, of a white light seen that same
day by three witnesses driving down Highway ten, and the
second is dated February twentieth, twenty twenty five and has
details of a January seventeenth, twenty twenty five, sighting from
a deck in Saint Paul, Minnesota, of a diamond shaped,
multi colored object that traveled at a quote unexplainable speed
and direction. Then disappeared quote, and caused animals to react.
The ASA report begins with a statement that might explain
the involvement of the FBI. Quote below is a report
which might involve nuclear energy infrastructure unquote. The FBI has
details that are missing in the FBI documents, not least
of which is that it states there were a total
of four witnesses, including the reporting witness. According to the
witness statement, after the initial sighting with two co workers,
the witness went to his office to get a pair
of Bushnell binoculars and to put and took up a
new position on the parking ramp, and then continued observing
the object with three co workers. The witness says a
helicopter flew between them and the object, and that this
seemed to prompt the object to move off rapidly to
the north and gain altitude. The witness also says that
a coworker drove ten miles down Highway ten and reported
the object was still far off to the west of
him airplane and the object's apparent reaction to it described
as in the other reports. The witness describes seeing the
second object, says it was similar to and much closer
than the first object, and that he wasn't able to
stay and monitor it. There is no mention of him
following it down Highway ten. Finally, he says he saw
a similar object on February seventeenth, twenty twenty five, and
that he did not discuss it with anyone until seeing
the object with his coworkers on February nineteenth. For insight
into the background of the relationship between ASA and the FBI,
there's an article by Daniel Lippman headlined quote FBI agents
who investigate UFOs where they could be pushed out in
a possible purge unquote, posted February third, twenty twenty five,
and that was on Politico. The sub had reads the
existence of the FBI's informal working group on the issue
has not been disclosed publicly before. Founder and ASA executive
director Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot, is quoted expressing
concern that the FBI's UAP working group could be affected
by transitioning changes. Lippmann describes the group as informal and
says that Graves and three others were familiar with it
and that they described it in this way. It consists
of a national program manager and more than a dozen
employees across the country who spend much of their time
tracking down UAPs. According to Lippman, Graves said that ASA
has been working with the group for over a year.
Lippman includes a statement from the FBI to the effect
that it investigates unidentified anomalous phenomena when there is a
potential a violation of federal law. Charles Lear is the
author of The Flying Saucer Investment Sigators in its second
edition on Amazon dot com. Thank you, m mm hmm.