Winnebago 'Owlman': Unexplained encounter in Minnesota that defied time, space and reality
In 2010, a late-night drive through the small town of Winnebago, Minnesota, turned into a surreal encounter with a towering Owlman and a sentient green orb that seemed to defy the laws of physics. But as lost hours, an impossible pregnancy, and UFO contact began to unfold in the following years, the witness was left to wonder: had she seen a messenger from another world, or something even stranger?
I recently received the following account:
"On September 30, 2010, in Winnebago, Minnesota, in a quiet town of 1,200 residents, where autumn leaves were beginning their transformation. I was driving home from my evening shift at Parker Oaks nursing home when something massive and otherworldly caught my peripheral vision in the shadowy branches of an old tree. Compelled to look, I turned my head, and when I snapped my attention back to the road ahead, there it was: illuminated in the stark beam of my headlights stood an impossible figure—the Owlman.
Towering five feet tall, this creature had a hauntingly human-like body crowned with an enormous owl face. What struck me most were its arms—human-like in structure with forearms and biceps, yet covered in feathers, and without hands visible at all. They were wings connected directly to these human-like arms, forming one continuous structure. The feathers were white on the underbelly and brown on top, just like a regular owl, but the underlying arm structure was distinctly human. The feet were unmistakably owl-like, and the body maintained an eerily human quality that made the whole encounter surreal. However, it was the eyes that held me captive—large like an owl's yet unmistakably human in their intelligence. Their brown depths caught the yellow reflection of my headlights, resembling the mesmerizing eyes of animals that reflect in the dark, not luminous but mirror-bright and utterly hypnotic.
I slammed my brakes, coming within four feet of this enigmatic being. The moment I hit the brakes, it screeched—a sound that defied explanation, simultaneously avian and human, primal yet conscious—and spread its wings wide in response, those human-like arms extending into magnificent wingspans. The whole scene wasn't frightening; it was profoundly weird, like stepping into a reality that operated by entirely different rules.
Then came the moment that changed everything: It simply stared at me with those penetrating, reflective eyes, and I found myself locked in an otherworldly communion, gazing into those ancient depths as time seemed to suspend itself around us. In that electric silence, I felt rather than heard the words "I see you" resonate through my very soul. I wasn't afraid—fear couldn't touch this moment—I was frozen in pure wonder, caught in a trance-like state until something shifted, and I became unfrozen, looking away for just a heartbeat. When I turned back, it had vanished as if it had never existed, though I glimpsed something impossibly small and swift disappearing into the darkness above, moving with a speed that defied physics.
Strangely calm, I continued onto Highway 169, maintaining 55 mph toward home, when a new impossibility emerged—a perfect sphere of green fire, tennis ball-sized and blazing like a living butane flame, appeared outside my passenger window and began keeping pace with my speeding vehicle with supernatural precision. This ethereal orb danced with fluorescent green flames that flickered and moved like liquid light. The more I became aware of its presence, the more it seemed to respond to me, eventually tapering away and descending toward a distant cow farm as if it knew I was watching.
When I finally reached home, my babysitter was furious—I was two hours late, though the drive should have taken fifteen minutes at most. I had no memory of where those lost hours had gone, no awareness that time had slipped away like water through my fingers. The next day, I returned to search for burn marks at the cow farm where the green orb had descended—nothing remained, no trace of its fiery presence, as if it had been nothing more than a beautiful hallucination.
But the strangeness was only beginning: I discovered I was pregnant, despite my boyfriend being incarcerated—an impossible conception that remains unexplained to this day—followed by an equally mysterious miscarriage where the baby vanished completely, without requiring any medical intervention, leaving doctors baffled and unable to provide any rational explanation.
Then, a decade later, during another extraordinary UFO encounter, I met a baby who communicated telepathically that it was the child from that night—the hybrid offspring of that impossible pregnancy. Suddenly, some of the puzzle pieces of my life began clicking into place with supernatural precision. This wasn't the malevolent Cornish Owlman of the 1976 legend with glowing red eyes and a sinister presence; this being was entirely different—one of profound intelligence and purpose. It looked at me with stern recognition, communicating not through words but through the very essence of sight itself, its gaze penetrating straight to my soul with a message as clear as it was mysterious: "I see you."
That encounter marked the beginning of my awakening, the first conscious thread in a tapestry of experiences that continues to unfold. The puzzle pieces are still coming together to this day, revealing connections and synchronicities that span years and defy conventional understanding, all stemming from that impossible September night when I looked into the eyes of something beyond our world." V