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Yes, this is the City of Coeur d'Alene, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

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Yes.

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The City Police Department.

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Yes.

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Just want to report an unidentified object.

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It came from the south in kind of a teardrop shape and rose over the area.

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There's not a sight in less than a minute approximately.

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Well, if you need to know on that.

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Do you have any witnesses?

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Yes, there's about four other witnesses.

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Okay, do you have their telephone numbers or addresses also?

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Uh, be the, uh, Coeur d'Alene City Police.

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Okay.

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Well, they're all PD personnel.

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Right.

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Very good.

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Can we get two people by mail at the station?

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Yes.

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Okay, we'll do.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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Bye.

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So you have forwarded for the centering gun?

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Yes.

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Do you have time to give us a description of what you saw there tonight?

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Yeah.

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Sure.

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Um, okay, what I saw is it was, uh, coming out of the south.

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Uh, well, we have this one area called Micah, uh, Hale area.

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And it was coming from that area, rising.

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And it was kind of like, it was a light in a kind of teardrop shape.

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It looked like, uh-huh.

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And it was rising going to the north.

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Um, and then when, like, I was, I was sitting still when we first saw it.

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Um, my, uh, brother officer, my partner with me, I told him, take a look, he saw it.

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And we were turning, we figured, well, it might be a helicopter.

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And we couldn't hear any sound.

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Like the, uh, the sound of a helicopter.

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And this, and I, or an airplane and all, I couldn't hear any sound from it.

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And, uh, so we drove down the road, contacted the Southern unit who was, uh,

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about a mile and a half, two miles, three miles from us, uh, going, uh, northwest.

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On this one street, he, uh, saw it.

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I joined, passing where the area was in.

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He saw, saw it and, uh, we were kind of kidding about it.

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But, uh, then, uh, we moved down the road a little ways.

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And then we looked up again and looked, I had lights, kind of,

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looked like I had a light in front and some lights going around the side or something.

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And then I didn't want to say anything about it.

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Uh-huh.

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I figured, I know cops see these things, but this is ridiculous.

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But, uh, the other officer, uh, also thought, I don't know how long he's thought.

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I haven't been able to talk to him since we were kidding about it.

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And, uh, it, I really don't know how fast the thing moved,

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but it was moving faster than a normal airplane.

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I used to work on jets and that, I used to work for Boeing,

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so I know how fast a normal airplane would go.

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Right.

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Uh, and it was moving quite a bit faster.

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And I kept thinking, well, maybe it's when he, he, when Phil, Phil Bloons with,

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a lot of things he used to do up around, in King County or St. Homish County,

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up there and put lights on it.

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And it just didn't look like that.

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Uh-huh.

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Okay.

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But, uh, my first time, I kind of had a tear drop,

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in a funny shape to it.

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Now, would that with B of the point down?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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What time did you spot that?

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Uh, I was holding it for a second.

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What time did we see that thing?

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About approximately 22 10.

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Okay.

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Good evening.

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Uh, good night, Tom.

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Go on to the other officers that's seen it here.

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You're welcome to.

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Okay.

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Good evening.

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Good evening.

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This is you before putting center in Seattle.

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What can I help you with?

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Oh, I'd like to, uh, get your description as you saw the object tonight.

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Okay.

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Um, I just happened to glance off the side when the other officer,

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motioned to me.

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And I got a view from it, more from the side.

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Uh-huh.

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Um, I saw it.

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Just as it had a large light on the front.

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And it was kind of, oh, what an oval shape, an oval shape.

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And it had a large light on the front, you know, like a cone.

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Right.

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Light on a cone.

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And then it had a roll of smaller, um, much less dimmer lights around the perimeter.

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And, uh, I don't know, size-wise, I wouldn't even know what to tell you.

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The one thing I noticed is that there was no noise and it seemed to be a lot closer to the ground

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and then like an average, uh, like a Piper prop plane or something of this type.

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Okay.

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Do you have any estimate of just how close you got to that?

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Oh, wow.

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I don't know.

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I'd say, what, 1500 foot?

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What's your average prop plane fly at?

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Like over a city.

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Oh, I don't think they can come any lower than a thousand feet.

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I would say about 1500 then.

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Okay.

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Okay, did those lights, or the smaller lights that you saw, what color were those, you remember?

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They were light white.

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They weren't real bright.

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They were a dim white.

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Okay, and you figured that this thing was an oval shape?

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Uh-huh.

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I would, uh, it seemed to be an oval shape.

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Now would that be moving oval on the horizontal?

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Um, or up on in?

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No, it would be horizontal.

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Horizontal, okay.

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Okay, I think I got just about all the information.

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Did you get out of the car at any time?

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No, I didn't.

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Okay.

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I had the window down.

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I was on the rider's side of the car and it was headed to north and my window was to the north.

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So really, it wouldn't have done me any good to get out of the car.

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I see, okay.

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Well, thank you very much for your time and we sure appreciate you getting the report to us.

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You bet.

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Thanks again.

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You bet.

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Take care now.

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Bye.