1975-06-15 - Minneapolis, MN - Triangle

Sighting of triangle object and caveman (yeah, I know--sounds like I am out of my mind, but there were two of us)

I was at the website and read the article about submitting sights that have happened in the past, well--I have a doozey!!

I was 17 and it was the summer of 1975 in Minneapolis Minnesota. My 'friend-boy' (he was 22) was walking me back to my apartment where I lived with my family. We stopped to talk and were standing in the Phyllis Wheatley elementary school field that separated the school from my apartment building by about an acre. The street was about a half a block away to my right and his left, facing the apartment building. Across from the apartment building was another apartment complex.

It was about a half an hour before sunset on a very clear evening. Around the perimeter of the field, there were a lot of tall trees. We were engrossed in a very good conversation when I notice to my left, something coming through the tops of the trees.

It didn't make a sound but it was as big as a very large house. It was black and shaped like a very narrow triangle. It has lights on each point and a big 'spotlight' typed light in the middle. It whoosed over the very tops of the trees, so close that we both ducked, thinking it was going to hit us. I asked him if he saw what I had just seen and we both definately agreed that what we saw was shaped like nothing we had ever seen before.

Now, here is where it gets very, VERY strange. Not more that one minute later, as we were engrossed in conversation about the object we had just saw, I noticed movement, this time over my right shoulder. Coming out of the bushes next to one of the apartment buildings across the street was a caveman!!

I stopped in mid sentence and my friend noticed and followed my eyes. He then asked me if I saw what he was seeing. I said that yes, I see a caveman!! We both watched as the caveman parted the bushes holding what looked like a large tree branch in his left hand. He was not very tall and had on what looked like brown fur around his mid-section. The color of his skin was light beige. He didn't make a sound but stared at us as we stared at him. What broke the concentration was when I screamed.

The caveman then started coming towards us--but he moved like he was under water or mechanical. I could NOT move from where I was standing because I could NOT stop staring at this very strange sight! Finally my friend grabbed my hand and said to me to stop staring and start running! I had on a pair of yellow Japanese shoes that I had to kick off because my friend was pulling me so fast. I turned to look behind us and the caveman was so close that I could see that his bared mouth bore yellow teeth. When he ran, it was in that mechanical, under water way--like he could not control his movements--but that didn't stop him from moving so fast! He looked like he was caught in the beams of a strobe light. As we reached the steps of my building, I looked back again but only saw his hand as it was ready to grab me just under my shoulder.

Thank goodness the building's main entrance door was always unlocked!! We got in the building and my apartment door was unlocked as well (because my siblings were home). I locked the apartment door behind us and we both ran to the front window to see if we could see him anywhere but all we saw were my parents who were just pulling up.

We both looked at each other in puzzlement, then ran right back to the door--he snatched it open only to find an empty entryway. The caveman was gone just that quick! We both ran out to help my parents with the groceries--both talking a mile a minute about our experience. When we got back inside, my mom asked us what the thing in the sky looked like. We described it to her and my dad. My mom suddenly had to sit down and they both just stared at each other.

My Mom then told us that that was the same object they saw, along with about 50 others, just the week before. They had been stopped at a light at a very busy intersection and she said everyone was jumping out of their cars pointing at it. She said they all got an excellent look at it because it was moving slowly across the sky. I remember her showing us the newspaper clipping about it.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD))