By KEN KORCZAK
Do uncanny synchronistic patterns reveal a deeper meaning behind Minnesota’s “most notorious” UFO encounter?
Author’s note: This article is one of a multi-part series wherein I report the results of my intensive reinvestigation of the most famous UFO case in Minnesota history — the day Deputy Val Johnson’s was “rammed” by a “UFO.” To see Part 1 for background, see my story here:
Minnesota’s ‘Most Notorious UFO Case’ Solved After 40 Years?
You don’t have to read the first section to follow the portion now presented here.
A WINDOW INTO A GREATER REALITY
In this section of my reinvestigation of the Val Johnson UFO incident, I am going to present a series of curious coincidences associated with the event that I believe offer a window into a greater reality. That “greater reality” is what the theoretical physicist David Bohm called “the implicate and explicate order.” Briefly, this refers to the idea that time and space are not the dominant factors for determining the relationships of “dependence or independence of different elements.”
Independently of Bohm, the great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung developed his theory of synchronicity. This is an idea that suggests that what we experience as “amazing coincidences” at times in our lives is actually an indicator of a greater kind of “energetic confluence” within the framework of the human psyche as well as the collective consciousness of humankind.
Furthermore, the most striking coincidences or “synchronistic events” tend to occur around happenings that bear tremendous implications to millions of people. These are developments that generate strong human emotion, and which bear wider significance to larger issues.
Before I flesh this out further (and before too many readers click off!), I’m going to jump right into detailing a series of synchronistic elements of the Val Johnson and Steven Shoemaker encounters with a UFO in northern Minnesota in 1979.
The following are an intriguing set of “coincidental” elements of Minnesota’s most notorious UFO event:
COINCIDENCE #1:
Two days after Val Johnson’s car collided with the orb-like object, an object of the same description was sighted by a man driving four hundred miles south near Vermillion, South Dakota. That man’s name was Russ Johnson. Just like Val Johnson, Russ Johnson’s car was struck head-on by a UFO, although no physical or car damage resulted in the second case.
Thus, two non-related drivers named Johnson were rammed by what appeared to be the same object.
So: Johnson and Johnson.
COINCIDENCE #2:
Just minutes before Val Johnson confronted his UFO, he drove through the small town of Stephen, Minnesota. Later, a man named Steven Shoemaker would tangle with the same object near the same location.
So: Stephen and Steven.
COINCIDENCE #3:
After Steven Shoemaker finished his game of tag with the UFO, he reported losing sight of it slightly before entering the city limits of Warren. Looking in his rearview mirror, he thought to glimpse the object flying off into the sky.
His location at this point would have been extremely near if not right next to a closed drive-in movie theater called “The Sky-Vu.”
So: The object flew off into the sky next to the Sky-Vu … which Steven got a “vu” of in his car’s “rear-vu” mirror.
COINCIDENCE #4:
Steven Shoemaker was driving a Chevy “Nova.” As we all know, a nova is an astronomical term for an exploding star. The object Steven was chasing — a brilliant, almost blinding ball of white light — could be said to resemble an astronomical nova.
So: A Nova was chasing a nova.
COINCIDENCE #5:
Marshall County is made up of 48 townships. Only one of those townships shares the name of a star. That would be Vega Township. Vega is the brightest start in the constellation of Lyra.
“Coincidentally,” Steven Shoemaker and his Nova had just entered Vega Township when he gained his first sighting of the bright orb-like object.
So here was a guy driving a car named after an exploding star who began to chase an object that resembled a nova in a township that shares the name of the brightest star in Lyra.
Vega is a word taken from Arabic and means “the falling eagle.”
Here is the really interesting part …
As it happens, the constellation of Lyra is the home of a remarkable nova-like star called MV Lyrae. It’s a combination of a red dwarf star and a white dwarf star. MV Lyrae is what astronomers call a variable star because it brightens and dims periodically.
MV Lyrae had exhibited maximum brightness for years but suddenly shifted to display minimum brightness and stayed there, baffling astronomers.
Now the kicker:
The sudden dimming of the nova-like MV Lyrae happened in the year … I’ll give you one guess … yes, it was 1979 … the same year Johnson and Shoemaker encountered the nova-like UFO in Minnesota.
Coincidence 5 has earned its own summary:
A man driving a car named after an exploding star is chasing a UFO that resembles an exploding star in the township of Vega, which is the brightest star in Lyra. Lyra is the location of a nova-like star that dimmed considerably in 1979, the year Johnson and Shoemaker chased the exploding star-like object in Minnesota.
As a bonus, the name Minnesota was fashioned from a Native American term which means “the Land of the Sky-Blue Waters.”
COINCIDENCE #6:
Steven Shoemaker shares the name of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, a comet famous for a spectacular collision. The comet was discovered in 1993 by astronomers Carolyn Shoemaker, her husband Eugene Shoemaker and Canadian astronomer David Levy.
What made Shoemaker-Levy unlike any other comet was the calculation that this massive object was on a collision course with the planet Jupiter.It would be the first time in history that astronomers would have a front-row seat for the collision of two significant bodies of our solar system.
The event turned out to be even more dramatic than astronomers could have hoped for. An array of astronomical instruments imaged the entire series of events which featured spectacular broken up “fireball-like” fragments of Shoemaker-Levy plunging into Jupiter to produce massive impact scars that were bigger than Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot.
Thus, Steven Shoemaker shares the name of Comet Shoemaker-Levy which was involved in a famous astronomical collision — and the essence of the Johnson- Shoemaker story centers around a famous “collision event” as well.
I’ll leave it to the reader to decide if this qualifies as a valid coincidence.
COINCIDENCE #7:
By far, for me, the most tantalizing aspect of the Val Johnson story is the 14 minutes of missing time as indicated by the stoppage of both wristwatch and car clock.
Certainly, that number must offer a clue to this case. It must be meaningful in some way.
For years, I pondered what those 14 minutes represented. I have looked at it from a variety of angles. In Biblical numerology, for example, the number 14 is considered sacred because Jesus left his physical form on the 14th day of the first month.
Or consider that in Pythagorean numerology the smallest number for a triplet is 14.
But numerology is of limited help in the Val Johnson case because 14 can be derived in an almost infinite number of ways if one massages the numbers enough to arrive at any meaning that suits us.
Furthermore, there are numerous traditions of numerology — Chinese numerology, European medieval numerology, Vedic numerology, astrological numerology. All say something different about 14. In short, numerology, in general, leaves me cold and it fails to show us anything helpful about Val Johnson’s famous missing 14 minutes.
Of course, there are other venues for finding the significance of a number — such as the meaning of “angel numbers” and how 14 influences the practice of Tarot. Here again, however, I think the search for genuine meaning goes off track.
It was not until I commissioned a remote viewing report of the Val Johnson incident that an exceptionally good “synchronistic match” for the number 14 presented itself.
As it turns out, 14 is the atomic number for silicon.
If you are already guessing that silicon — as a basis for computer technology and silicon-based life forms — has something to do with what the remote viewing report showed, you’re on the right track!
In the next installment of this series, I will reveal what the remote viewing data tells us about the nature and origin of the object that Val Johnson, Russ Johnson and Steven Shoemaker encountered in 1979.
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