{"id":3530,"date":"2025-03-11T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/whats-the-story-behind-minnesotas-ufo-car-4\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:55:42","slug":"whats-the-story-behind-minnesotas-ufo-car-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/whats-the-story-behind-minnesotas-ufo-car-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the story behind Minnesota\u2019s \u2018UFO car\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the story behind Minnesota\u2019s \u2018UFO car\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>A peculiar incident from 1979 near Warren resulted in mysterious damage to a deputy\u2019s squad car. <\/p>\n<p>The amber-colored Ford LTD, which has been permanently displayed at the Marshall County Historical Society museum in Warren, Minnesota, features a cracked windshield and bent antennas that many interpret as signs of an extraterrestrial encounter. This so-called \u201cUFO car\u201d attracts visitors from across the nation, with some traveling over 1,000 miles to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople come from all over, and they often have just one thing on their minds: to see the car. They take a look, then they\u2019re on their way,\u201d noted Kent Broten, president of the historical society.<\/p>\n<p>Although the incident that affected Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson\u2019s vehicle occurred more than four decades ago and was not mentioned in Elizondo\u2019s book, Newsweek recognized it as one of the most credible UFO encounters in modern history back in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat\u2019s the story behind Minnesota\u2019s \u2018UFO car\u2019? A peculiar incident from 1979 near Warren resulted in mysterious damage to a deputy\u2019s squad car. The amber-colored Ford LTD, which has been permanently displayed at the Marshall County Historical Society museum in Warren, Minnesota, features a cracked windshield and bent antennas that many interpret as signs of&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/whats-the-story-behind-minnesotas-ufo-car-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What\u2019s the story behind Minnesota\u2019s \u2018UFO car\u2019?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}