147: “We Asked for a UFO… Then Lost Time” | 1973 Encounter Story

What happens when you ask for contact… and something actually responds? In this episode of the UFO Garage Podcast, we sit down with Dave Hamlin to hear his firsthand account of a chilling experience during the 1973 UFO sighting wave in the upper Midwest. What started as a curious night turned into something far stranger. Dave and his girlfriend drove out to a remote field, scanning the skies, calling out through a walkie-talkie… even jokingly asking to be taken for a ride in a flying saucer. Then—without warning—everything went blank. The next moment, they woke up in broad daylight, sitting upright in their car… with no memory of what happened in between. In this conversation, we explore:The 1973 UFO flap in Minnesota & WisconsinThe moment everything went silentMissing time and unexplained gaps in memoryA strange physical mark that appeared after the eventWhy Dave has spent decades searching for answersHis thoughts on regression therapy and uncovering the truthMore than 50 years later, the questions still remain. Was it nothing… or something we still don’t understand?