Val Johnson ALIEN / UFO incident

On August 27, 1979, the Sheriff Deputy Val Johnson of the police station in Marshall County (Minnesota) conducts a routine patrol on the road five on board a 1977 Ford LTD service. Around 1:40 am, when he arrives in the vicinity of the intersection with highway 220, the sheriff sees a bright light on the left, behind a line of trees. The light is too powerful to be simple car headlights, Val Johnson think this may be, a plane landed in a field. Wanting to make sure everything goes well, the witness decided to go closer and turn left onto state road 220. Immediately, the light darkens on the Sheriff's car, reaches in less than a second (when the tree line was located nearly two km from the intersection of two roads). The witness and his vehicle was found completely encompassed within this bright light, Val Johnson hears his windshield cracked and fell into unconsciousness. At 2:19, the sheriff Johnson regains consciousness, he felt a terrible pain in his eyes. Sometimes painfully to ask for help by radio. Immediately, the agent Everett Doolittle was sent there. When he arrived at the scene of the accident, he discovered the car to the sheriff's half tipped into the ditch along the road. A lighthouse on the left is broken, the windshield is cracked from top to bottom and had three impacts, two of the three radio antennas of the vehicle are bent and the hood had a round hump. The sheriff complained of severe pain in the eyes and seems disoriented and shocked. Val Johnson will be evacuated by ambulance to the hospital shortly after Warren. An ophthalmologist in Grand Forks who examined the witness the next day diagnosed a burn of the eye due to exposure to a strong light source. The wristwatch of the witness, and the clock of the vehicle presented both a delay of 14 minutes (while the sheriff was set to the time of the police station around 1:00 am). Finally, the vehicle's battery proved to be completely emptied and could never be charged after the incident.
The theory of ball lightning explains the electrical effects (disordered watches, battery empty) and loss of consciousness but the sheriff's absolutely no explanation for the physical effects suffered by the vehicle (light broken, twisted branches).
The personality of Val Johnson (a police officer confirmed and duly noted by his superiors) makes it unlikely the thesis of a fabrication or a hoax.
Meridan French, an expert on the windshield of the Ford Motor Company who examined the vehicle found no rational cause for cracks and worn by the various impacts the windshield.
Several experts suggested to Val Johnson to use the sessions of hypnosis to try and regressive back memories of the incident but he refused systematically.
Val Johnson acknowledged that since the incident, a phrase came back to him constantly in mind (in a quasi-hypnotic): I am involved .