Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar. Join Zilia as she walks us through

some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness. Today we are going to be

discussing the super trippy Townsend case, or to directly quote John Keel's article about this case in True Magazine,

who was that six inch tall animated tin can I saw you with last night?

Who indeed? So, yes, this case is probably best known as the case of the tin can or beer can aliens,

for reasons which will become apparent in a minute here. So without further ado,

on October 23, 1965, a 19-year-old radio announcer and summertime Bible camp counselor by the name of

Jerry Townsend was driving from the town of Little Falls, Minnesota, to Long Prairie, Minnesota,

at around 7.7.30 in the evening. About four miles outside the town of Long Prairie,

as he browned a particular bend in the road, his car up and decided to cut out. Engine, lights,

radio, everything went completely dead. Sounds familiar, right? So he claimed that he coasted for a second,

but then put on the brakes, because up ahead of him in the middle of the road was, for all intents and purposes, a rocket ship.

Yes, like a high sci-fi space rocket, complete with three large fins.

Now, Townsend claimed that it was around 30 to 40 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter,

and that it was standing actually on these kind of tripod-like fins. Now underneath the object was a circle of bright

colorless light and standing inside the circle of light were what have been affectionately

termed the beer can aliens. Now Townsend claimed that they were these three beings which

looked like tin cans but were the size of a beer can, quote

unquote, which stood on tripod legs with matchstick arms. They had no faces or eyes or anything,

and Townsend claimed that his first thought was actually to try and knock one down to take it with him.

So to that effect, he jumped out of the vehicle and was about to head on over to knock down one of

the beings. Some reports even mentioned that he considered trying jumped out of the vehicle and was about to head on over to knock down one of the beings.

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