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Creature sightings stir talk

By Dave Olson
The Forum - 10/27/2006

Pig-grabbing space aliens are the talk of Tappen, N.D., and beyond. But Torrey Briese, whose family counts three close encounters with the inexplicable, doesn't much worry what others think. "Some people probably aren't going to believe it. I'm not even trying to convince anybody. We know what happened," said Briese, a member of the Tappen School Board whose family operates a ranch outside of town. Briese and his wife, Myra, spoke Thursday of three strange occurrences experienced by family members in the past year, two of which were reported by their son Evan, 16.

According to Myra Briese, the latest incident went something like this:

Her son awoke early on the morning of Sept. 12 and got up to get a glass of water. Looking out a window, the boy saw something moving in the corral that is home to several large hogs that are basically family pets. Thinking it might be a coyote, he grabbed a gun and walked into the corral. There, he encountered two creatures standing 8 to 9 feet tall that were doing something to one of the hogs. The boy fired his .22-caliber rifle at one creature and was pretty sure he hit it, judging by the unearthly scream it emitted. Another creature then grabbed the boy and threw him to the ground, causing him to black out. When Evan Briese 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 shares with his parents.

Trista Briese made a frantic phone call to her parents and it wasn't long before they, and later the Kidder County sheriff, were on the scene. Evan Briese, whose shirt was in tatters, told his story. The sheriff, Doug Howard, then left but came back the next day. He ultimately came to no conclusions about what happened to the hog, Myra Briese said. Several days later, with the help of a hypnotist, Evan Briese remembered more details.

Five entities had been in the corral. Two were in the process of dragging what appeared to be a dead hog when the boy interrupted them. "It's unexplainable," Myra Briese said. "This still bothers Evan to this day," she said, adding that her son feels guilty for not being able to save his younger sister's hog. As for the other incidents, one was in April when Evan and his cattle dog, Buster, were checking on cows during calving season, his parents said.

Investigating a flashing glow, the pair walked over a hill and saw an object resting on the ground that appeared to be scanning a waterhole with an intense beam of light. At first, boy and dog could do nothing but stare. The spell was broken when Buster ran barking at the craft, which took off into the night, causing what amounted to a sonic boom. "It woke Myra up," Torrey Briese said of the sound, adding that he, too, witnessed something unusual this past summer. It happened one night in July, when he was giving a neighbor a ride into town. Briese said he and the neighbor noticed a bluish light in the sky, which stopped when they stopped and moved when they began driving. "We spent about a half-hour watching it," Briese said, adding that 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's never been given to flights of fancy.

"Evan and I are very skeptical," Torrey Briese said. "We used to watch The UFO Files on TV and laugh out loud." Briese said he wouldn't be surprised if people feel the same about his story, but he said the family doesn't feel a need to prove anything and they've moved on. "We're not out looking for aliens every night," he said.

Brice Barnick, the mayor of Tappen, located off Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Jamestown, said visits by UFOs are the talk of the town, though he himself is not quite on board. "I'm not saying it can't happen. But I'd have to see it to believe it," Barnick said.

At the time of the April incident, the Brieses were put in touch with Richard Moss, a UFO investigator who happened to be in Tappen for a funeral. Moss, of Long Prairie, Minn., is a former high school science teacher. He said that in many years of investigating UFO reports, only a handful have impressed him as having the potential to be genuine. The Tappen incidents, he said, fall into the latter category. "There are a lot of people out there who are telling false stories. The credibility of the witness is a big thing," Moss said.

In the case of Evan Briese, Moss said it was interesting to view the boy's demeanor before and after the hypnotic regression. Prior to hypnosis, "He (Briese) had a sort of unsure look on his face. He was still really wondering what had happened. After the hypnotic regression, he knew. He was made to remember," Moss said.

Sheriff Howard was off duty Thursday and could not be reached for comment. John Lemieux, a Kidder County deputy, said he did not believe the incident in September resulted in a written report. Torrey Briese said strange things are still happening.

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, Briese said. A cause of death wasn't the only thing missing. Someone, Briese said, removed a single testicle from the animal. It was done with surgical precision, he added.

A young man, Evan Briese, woke up to get a glass of water. Looking out a window the boy saw something moving in the corral that is home to several large hogs that area basically family pets. Thinking it might be a coyote; he grabbed a gun and walked into the corral. There, he encountered two creatures standing 8 to 9 feet tall that were doing something to one of the hogs. The boy fired his .22 caliber rifle at one of the creatures and was pretty sure he hit it, judging by the unearthly scream it emitted. Another creature then grabbed the boy and threw him to the ground, causing him to black out. When Evan Briese 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 shares with his parents. Trista Briese made a frantic phone call to her parents and it wasn’t long before they and later the Kidder County sheriff, were on the scene. Evan Briese, whose shirt was in tatters told his story. The sheriff, Doug Howard, then left but came back the next day. He ultimately came to no conclusions about what happened to the hog. Several days later with the help of a hypnotist, Evan Briese remembered more details. Five entities had been in the corral. Two were in the process of dragging what appeared to be a dead hog when the boy interrupted the creatures that apparently left with the pig when the boy interrupted them. The sheriff claims he could not find any evidence. Other family members have reported encountering UFOs previously.

Additional details have emerged: Richard Moss from Mufon reported that the youth had approached the corral from the south, behind the windbreak. Upon jumping the fence into the corral, he saw two figures apparently trying to steal a 400-lb pregnant sow. One of them scooped up the sow with one arm, transferred it to its other arm and tossed it to the second figure. In the moonlight the witness suddenly realized that the figures were not "ordinary people" and quickly became frightened and confused, as they were extremely tall, perhaps seven or eight feet in height. He fired a shot from his rifle into the left side of the entity that had caught the sow and was close enough that he felt sure he hit it. He immediately heard a loud screeching, squealing weird sound. Then the entity that had thrown the pig to the other one swiftly "floated" toward the witness, picked him up by his shirt and with one arm, threw him backwards about 20 feet. The youth landed on his back, and while on the ground heard a sort of "boom sound." He sat up, reloaded the rifle and looked around for the entities, but they were nowhere to be seen. The witness described getting a sense of fear from the other beings once the first one had been shot. He described what might have been an empathic telepathy between the beings and himself, with them indicating something like, "we mean you no harm..."

Subject: ufo and alien people on a farm in tappen ND
Date: October 27, 2006
From: [name]@restel.net

I was looking for info on a report of 2 or 3 aliens on a hog farm near Bismarck ND in or near tappen ND attempting to take a hog, man confronted the strange people reported to be 6 to 7 feet tall and woke up some time later with a hog gone and markings of a space ship...reported on KFYR radio 10/25 and 26,2006 also several sonic booms were heard in the area.
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