"I looked up at the sky and said, 'Well shucks, what happened?'"

[cosmolinguist]

Apparently it was World UFO Day yesterday, and the Minnesota Public Radio news I follow was as in need of a local angle as anyone else, so they ran this story about a guy who'd...ran into one with his car? in 1979.

Apparently this is famous and the car's in the local museum where people still come to see it, so I'm disappointed I hadn't heard of it before! I have loved UFO stories for as long as I could remember, and I never noticed any Minnesota ones in the dodgy books and TV shows I so loved (sometimes still do). It has some classic elements of the UFO story: middle of the night, quiet rural road, missing time.

But it doesn't feature a central character who's that interested in telling his story. His wife was run ragged by phone calls, they had little kids, he didn't seem comfortable with the attention he had gotten.

He explains this in what sounds to me like the most Minnesotan way ever.

"We'd sit in the back yard with lemonade and talk," he said. "They'd tell me what they thought happened to me and I'd nod at the appropriate times. Eventually they'd go away."

Sounds like what I bet my dad would think, in this guy's situation.

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[haggis]

This delighted me so much I read it out to my colleague :)

[worlds_of_smoke]

Some people are just unflappable. XD