According to a Press interview of Myra Briese, the latest incident experienced by members of her family involved her son Evan Briese, 16, when he awoke early on the morning of 12th September, 2006 and got up to get a glass of water. Looking out of a window, the boy saw something moving in the corral that was home to several large hogs that were basically family pets. Thinking it might be a coyote, he grabbed a .22 caliber rifle and went outside and entered the corral.
In the moonlight Evan encountered two entities around 8 to 9 feet tall, that were doing something to one of the hogs. The boy fired his rifle at one of the entities and was pretty sure he hit it as it uttered a loud unearthly scream.
The other entity then grabbed Evan and threw him to the ground and he lost consciousness. When Evan awoke, he found that Ruthy, a 450-pound sow that had been ready to give birth, was gone. The boy ran to the home of his older sister, Trista, a short distance from the house he lived in.
Above: Sketch of the entity type encountered by Evan Briese
Trista Briese made a frantic phone call to her parents and shortly afterwards they arrived at the scene and were later joined by Kidder County sheriff Doug Howard. Evan Briese, whose shirt was in tatters, told his story and the sheriff then left but came back the next day but was unable to reach a conclusion about what happened to the hog.
Several days later, with the help of a hypnotist who was apparently working with Minnesota ufologist Richard Moss on the investigation, Evan Briese remembered more details: there were five entities in the corral, two were apparently dragging what appeared to be a dead hog when the boy interrupted them.
A month later Myra Briese told the Press that Evan was still bothered and felt guilty for not being able to save his younger sister's hog.
The Press noted that Evan had already had a weird encounter in April 2006. One night, his cattle dog Buster, Evan was checking on cows during calving season. He observed a flashing glow and walked over a hill to go and see what it was and observed an object resting on the ground. The object appeared to be scanning a waterhole with an intense beam of light. At first, Evan and the dog could do nothing but stare until the dog eventually ran barking at the craft. The object the took off causing what amounted to a sonic boom. The father of the family, Torrey Briese, said that the noise woke the boy's mother up.
Above: the UFO observed at the farm
Torrey Briese said that he also witnessed something unusual one night in July 2006, when he was giving a neighbour a ride into town. Briese said he and the neighbour noticed a bluish light in the sky which stopped when they stopped and moved when they began driving. He said they spent about a half-hour observing it, and at one point the object flew so fast it went several miles in a matter of seconds. Based on the description of the object his son saw in April, Briese links the two events, adding that he doesn't indulge in fantasies but that strange things continue to happen.
Torrey Briese also told that a relative who farms in the Tappen area recently had a sheep die, and a veterinarian who examined the animal found no obvious reason for its death. He added that a single testicle had been removed from the animal with surgical precision.
The family said that they are of skeptical orientation and used to scoff at UFO documentaries on the television. Evan said he wouldn't be surprised if people felt sceptical about his story but said that the family doesn't feel a need to prove anything and they've moved on and were not looking for aliens every night. The father said he is not even trying to convince anybody, but that the family knows what happened.
Brice Barnick, the mayor of Tappen, located off Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Jamestown, said visits by UFOs are the talk of the town, but insisted that he would remain sceptical unless he sees it himself.
At the time of the April incident the family were put in contact with Long Prairie, Minnesota, ufologist Richard Moss who happened to be in Tappen for a funeral. Moss, a former high school science teacher, said that in many years of investigating UFO reports only a handful had impressed him as having the potential to be genuine, and that the Tappen incidents are among those. Moss said it was interesting to view Evan's demeanor before and after the hypnotic regression: prior to hypnosis, he had a sort of unsure look on his face, still really wondering what had happened, and after the hypnotic regression, he knew, as he was made to remember.
Sheriff Howard was off duty when attempts were made to contact him and so could not be reached for comment. John Lemieux, a Kidder County deputy, said he did not believe that the incident in September resulted in a written report. Torrey Briese said strange things are still happening.
The case was reported on the local radios and television around 25th-26th October and was the topic of an article in the MUFON Journal.
I have checked online but can find no contact details for Richard Moss and MUFON are not that keen on me! If anyone knows how I can contact Moss to get more details or has a scan of the MUFON Journal item in question please get in touch.
MUFON UFO Journal, N.463.
KXMC-TV, television channel, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA.
KFYR, radio station, local news, Bismark, North Dakota, USA, October 25, 2006.
KFYR, radio station, local news, Bismark, North Dakota, USA, October 25, 2006.
"Creature Sightings Stir Talk", article by Dave Olson, in The Forum, October 27, 2006.
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