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Yes sir, I'm calling from the news register in McMillanville, Oregon.

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Yes.

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To see if there's any kind of UFO sighting report out of this area from last night.

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No sir.

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And whatsoever.

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No fact, we didn't even have a call last night.

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Okay, there were.

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We had one in here which was involved with someone,

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who was in the US Army's finest UFO because there was a soundless,

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two soundless lights which were followed by 45 minutes to an hour and a half

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of military jet aircraft circling and maneuvering and the object apparently taking evasive action

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for about a 45 minute period and then another 45 minutes of just military jet aircraft

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flying over and circling.

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Very interesting.

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Do you have the party's name and call it in?

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Yes, I do.

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We were completely fogged in in this area.

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The only reason that he saw us was it was well outside of town,

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eight miles out clear up in the Boondoggles.

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I see.

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And he, people were where he lives and he was up above the fog.

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There's a good source and was in control of his faculties.

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At the time, I've been unable to locate any, I was going to call McCord,

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but there were no jet aircraft out in Portland last night.

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They were fogged in.

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So I've been unable to locate any source of the four military jet aircraft,

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which he said were up there for an hour and a half last night.

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Okay, we'll see if we can come up with some information.

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If we do, why don't we get back to you?

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Okay.

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What am I talking to?

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I'm talking to Jeb Ladine.

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So if anything might come up, I think I'll probably still make a call to,

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or would you normally make calls to McCord and Witte and so forth on something like this?

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To check on aircraft.

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To check on aircraft.

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We probably would, yes.

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I might just wait and contact you again.

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What is your name?

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Robert Gribble, G-R-I-B-B-L-E.

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Okay.

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Well, if I don't hear back from you, I'll give a call back this afternoon.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Go to Portland Center.

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Yes.

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Mr. Gribble, please.

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This is he.

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Yeah, this is Bill.

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You called her there?

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Yes, sir.

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We were interested in the optics that you saw in the sky the other night.

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I wonder if we could get a description of that.

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We're fairly high altitude, so basically all it was is just a very, very bright light

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and more of a circular shape to it.

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It seemed like when I saw it cross, I could see a little bit of a light,

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whether it might just have been a light trailing from speed it was trying to go in.

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It looked like there was a smaller light towards the back of it,

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but it was at a fairly high altitude.

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It was very bright light.

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It looked like almost like a landing light or something.

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You have a close distance to it.

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It was that bright.

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It was very difficult to estimate how high it was or anything.

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It was so bright that I did see aircraft in jet aircraft in the area at the time.

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I don't know how close they were to it, but I could make out all the landing lights on the aircraft.

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I can't really judge how large it was or how high it was,

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just because I didn't know how big it was in the first place.

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What time did you spot that?

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Just almost exactly eight o'clock.

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That was Monday night?

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Okay.

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Was the object on the move?

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Yes, definitely. It was circling.

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It kept doing a...

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It was coming from northwest and circling.

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I first saw it coming out of the northwest. It was doing a definite circle pattern.

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As it was moving?

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Yes, it was moving.

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It was moving at a very high speed.

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It made four passes.

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As near as I could tell, the exact same course.

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It didn't seem to vary at all.

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It was going out at quite a distance to the east and northeast,

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and then coming back through.

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I could not hear any sound from it.

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I didn't know if it was there before or not.

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I don't know how long it had been up there,

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because I just noticed that by coincidence,

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I had to go upstairs and look out the window

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and see if I don't know how long it was visible.

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After I did see it the first time,

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then I could start to see the aircraft,

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which seemed to be pursuing it or at least shadowing it.

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Then I could start to hear the jet engines from them.

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When I first saw it, there was no aircraft in the area.

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My first sighting was just 30 seconds or a minute,

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but I could not hear any sound from it.

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After a point, then there were a number of aircraft in the area,

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and I could hear them, so I don't know.

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They were making so much noise,

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I couldn't tell whether it was making noise or not.

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Did the object itself seem to be evading the aircraft?

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It seemed to be sticking to pretty much of a course.

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It did seem like it would accelerate and go away from them.

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What I saw in my first reaction when I saw it was

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that it did try to move away from them,

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and that they were definitely in pursuit of it.

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Oh, shoot.

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After checking around yesterday,

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he said everybody is planning that there were no military aircraft up that night.

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Which is kind of interesting.

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Did the object maintain the same color at all times?

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Yes, it was just a brilliant white light.

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Did you see it until it moved away?

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Yes, it went out, it did a circle pattern,

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went off towards east, almost due east, right towards now.

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That was the last I saw of it.

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The aircraft came back,

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and after I'd lost sight of the object,

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the aircraft continued to go back and forth in it.

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And it looked like they were patrolling the area.

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Searched better than it looked.

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Searched better.

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The aircraft seemed to be doing a crisscross thing for at one point.

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I lost sight of it at about 8.30 or 8.45.

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I finally completed the off-site of the object,

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and then on all I saw was the aircraft.

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Okay, but how long did you watch that?

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I watched from 8 to 8.45, I saw the object,

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but then I stayed and watched until well after 9 o'clock,

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and continued to watch the airplanes,

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and everything quieted down at one point.

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I counted what I thought.

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There were a lot of stars out that night.

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I live up to fairly high elevation,

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and it was quite foggy, but it was extremely clear,

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and there were a lot of stars out.

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But at one point it looked like a light show going on.

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Yes.

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There were so many aircraft going,

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but I counted what I think was four jets at one time.

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Do you have an 800 number there by any chance?

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No, we don't, unfortunately.

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I was thinking that somebody rounded up,

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but I think there's one in the south-west.

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There's one in Illinois, but it's confined to police use only.

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It's not available to the public.

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We're the only public center of its kind in the country.

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This is the first time I've ever seen anything like that.

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I've never flown a lot.

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It's the first time I've ever seen anything like that.

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I don't think it would even have been interesting.

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I would have passed it off as a meteor or something,

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if I had not seen the aircraft,

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which I felt to be in pursuit of.

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Okay, now, you saw it come out of the northwest,

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it was maintaining this circular pattern,

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as it was moving through the sky.

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I mean, was it circling as it was moving,

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or did it just maintain a constant?

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It maintained a pretty much of a constant pattern.

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I first thought it was very, very foggy that night.

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I thought that somebody was trying to find a place to put down or something.

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There was a pretty good sized airport here in MacNavill.

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That was my first thought.

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Then when I saw the other aircraft moving around it,

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I started to get my interest up a little bit.

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They definitely stayed around for a while.

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Okay, well, we sure appreciate this information.

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If we come up with anything regarding the object's identification,

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we'll get back to you and let you know.

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Okay, if I happen to...

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Is this a...

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Is your number a 24-hour number?

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Yes, it is.

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Okay, if I happen to check it again,

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then I will alert you then.

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Very good, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Bye.