Iâm not sure if this counts as contact or not- please let me know if I need to post this elsewhere.
It was winter 2019, possibly very early 2020, around 11pm. I live in Minnesota near the Twin Cities, at the time in a larger suburb on the fringe of what youâd picture when you think âMidwestâ- 5 minutes west was nothing but farms. My roommate and I were outside smoking cigarettes and using an app on my phone to look at constellations. We could hear noise from the bar down the street, and I remember noting how much sky traffic was present that night (like airplanes and satellites).
We were looking at the sky through this app, which utilized the phoneâs compass and a map of the sky, and my roommate made a comment about how cool it would be if there was some kind of alien who âlived in the constellationsâ we were looking at, looking back at us.
Then everything became dead silent. We watched 4 disc-like things(?) appear from just above the treetops in my neighborâs yard in a âvâ formation (similar to migrating geese) and fly overhead, roughly 20 feet. For a split second I thought it was a plane crashing, and admittedly, I flinched really hard and ducked behind my roommate, but I did look back up at them right as they moved directly overhead and noticed they glowed internally, similar to the lit end of a cigarette. And you could see up inside of them, I donât know how to describe it. It wasnât a flat surface I was looking at. It looked like cartilage inside of something living, for a lack of better descriptors.
When I flinched, my roommate said they moved into a single file line and slightly altered their path- as if they had acknowledged my reaction but moved on.
When I felt brave enough to look again, they had moved back to that âvâ formation, but the one in the back of the formation was moving between each leg of the âv.â They individually had morphed into a shape similar to a nerf football but with deep ridges down the side length-wise, and used these ridges (that looked more like flaps to me) to turn/rotate side to side. It seemed like that propelled them forward, but they also seemed to glide without it before they morphed, so I have no idea. It looked like they were âswimmingâ in air. It reminded me of some obscure deep sea creatures.
They flew up above our own tree, then our apartment roof, and we watched them pass over some telephone wires before they were just, gone. I donât even think I blinked; they were there and then they werenât. This all happened within the span of 10 seconds.
My roommate and I stood in silence and kind of stared at the spot they vanished from for another 5ish seconds before moving very quickly inside to debrief and attempt to debunk. My initial thought that it was a plane flying low was just illogical, as there was no sound (and also we obviously know what a plane looks like at night). We ruled out bats, geese, some other kind of remote control toys, etc.
I just wanted to tell someone that it happened, I donât know what Iâm hoping to get from this- maybe validation or someone who has seen something similar? Nobody in my real life believed me or my roommate despite both having the same account of what happened. I think I posted something to Reddit shortly after it happened, but nobody really said anything. I fell down a rabbit hole tonight that reminded me of this experience and I wanted to share it again- I think to get it off my chest to be transparent. It was the scariest, most surreal experience of my life that I still donât have answers for and likely never will.
