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I'm Mr. Ginn, Pleasanton, California.

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Yes, sir.

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In my family and I believe we saw something that's unusual in the sky.

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In our skies, it should say about 10 to 15 minutes ago.

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Okay.

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We've never seen anything like it before.

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What's that you hear about?

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Well, we heard a whirling noise.

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My wife did sound like a bee swarming.

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And it's pretty chilly around here and there's no bees swarming this time of year, I guess.

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Anyhow, so I had to get up to go to the bathroom.

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And it's going to sound sort of silly.

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But it looked like lights flashing up on the hill, which would be like police emergency lights or helicopter lights or something like that, you know.

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And as I looked out the window, wondering why the lights were so flashing so brightly,

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then I determined it was some kind of object hovering in the sky, which at first, again, thought was a helicopter.

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And then as we, or as I call my wife to come and look at it too, we realized it was moving along,

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just making sort of a low worrying noise and just sort of flashing these lights off and on.

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And we ran outside to get a glimpse as it was going east of us here, east of Pleasanton, moving towards the town of Livermore.

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And then it seemed to hover over the gravel pits, which is north and east of us here, or mainly east of Pleasanton.

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And then we lost track of it. It just seemed to disappear, faded away really again.

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We're up on a hill and yet there's still a house between us and the object.

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And it was just above the house at that point.

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So it could have, you know, just white flashes of light and just making sort of a whirling noise and it appeared to be sort of triangular shaped

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with lights sort of at the extremities and at the apex of the top.

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Okay, what color were those lights?

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I could just make out the lights to be flashing white lights.

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Okay.

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And my family says, my wife and my 16 year old boy in the gate, they saw green and red lights.

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I'm not too sure when they thought they were flashing or not.

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Okay. Any estimate of size of that object?

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Big. Oh, that thing was big.

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Uh, I, okay. Let me tell you, this would be a rough guess.

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I would say it would be the size of a Goodyear blimp.

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Okay.

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It was long and it was tall. It had to be tall because of a light marking the top of it.

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And, uh, you know, they don't know what else to tell you. Just to unuse you.

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I've been looking at the skies for years. I'm a weatherman from years of experience, years ago anyways.

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And I'm used to looking at the skies. I guess I sort of have a trained eye, but I have never seen anything like this.

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Okay. Any estimate of altitude above the ground?

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Yes. It would appear to be, and we might have been thrown off by, you know, the nighttime and everything else,

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but it would appear to have been at first in ways, maybe about a couple hundred feet above the ground.

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To 300 feet maybe.

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Okay. Did you continue to hear the sound during the entire observation?

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I couldn't. Not after it started moving off when I was looking out the bathroom window.

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He and I could still hear it low, but then when we ran outside, it had moved eastward and I couldn't hear any whirling noise.

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My ears aren't the best anymore, but I can't pick up all the high and low ranges.

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But we heard it when we saw it moving off, but once we got outside in the front yard, I couldn't hear it.

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I don't know if the family heard it at that point. They shake their head and say no, they couldn't hear it then.

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Okay. What was the duration of the observation?

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About eight minutes.

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Now the light flashing came before I actually saw the object. Very, very, very bright. I thought it was lightning at first.

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I didn't mention it at first, but that's what I did think it was first, and then I remember there had been an accident about two blocks from us

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where police emergency vehicles had been earlier. But that was quite a while back, and I was wondering why it took them so long.

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I said, well, it couldn't be police emergency because that should have been cleared up an hour ago.

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So, and then another thing, that was two blocks away and not right up on the hill either.

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So then that's the reason I looked out and I couldn't piece together these huge, just big blinding flashing lights

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and, you know, like on the, a synchronized light, you know, on, off, on, off.

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But it was too bright like it wasn't a helicopter searchlight because we see them around here.

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And this thing was huge. That's the thing that I call my wife. I said, I don't believe this because the darn thing was so long.

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And I just, I couldn't put an estimate on the size exactly other than to say it would have to be approximately the size of something like the good your blimp and the length

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because we know what that looks like when it comes floating by and, you know, the lights are displayed on the side.

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It just sort of floated along and whirled along. Well, that's about it, right?

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Okay. Any estimate on distance?

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Well, it had to be hovering over the top of our hill. So when it was first chill here, I would estimate, and of course it's just got to be the roughest of estimates.

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It must have been between, let's say, three to five hundred feet hovering over the hill and just a little bit north of the hill.

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So, what would that be? Maybe eight double miles away from where we are and something like that.

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Did it maintain a steady flight path? Was there any...

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It was almost like if you take a Frisbee and then just before it starts to lose its speed, it still maintains its height and it's sort of floating at that point and then it drops.

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Okay.

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That's exactly how it was. I don't know if that makes any sense, but that's sure how it seemed like.

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Did those flashes of light illuminate the ground?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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But not in like a spotlight kind of illuminating. It was just a broad light, heat lightning or something like that.

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Very bright. As a matter of fact, I can hardly look at it.

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Did you have a chance to use binoculars?

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No. No. As a matter of fact, that boy is the one that had them and we had to rouse them out of bed.

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Okay. Other than the sound, did you have any other strange occurrences prior to spotting that on me?

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No. Except my wife is the one that told me that she heard a whirling noise and that probably came about five to six minutes before I got up to investigate.

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Before I got up to actually... Before I got up to go to the bathroom.

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Right.

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Okay. But I wanted about the noise at the same time, but I didn't really think too much about it.

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And it was just a strange noise that was sort of like a low hum.

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Okay. Did you turn your lights on and your resonant at all?

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No.

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Okay.

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Did not?

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Uh-huh.

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Did not?

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It wasn't a matter of not wanting to, just didn't need to, you know, at the time.

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Did you have any chance here, any unusual barking of dogs outdoors?

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What was going on?

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I don't know. I don't think we did. Did you hear any barking of the dogs?

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No. I would say no. No, we did. We have a little puppy here and he was jumping around, but mainly because we were excited.

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Okay.

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No. I would say no, I fan.

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Alright.

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I sure hope what we saw was what we saw, you know, and not just some unusual kind of helicopter or something, but it couldn't have been a helicopter unless you've got a new helicopter about 100 yards long or something or about as big as a good here at Boydhampton.

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Alright.

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Okay. We'll get any additional information on it while we'll get back to you and let you know.

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Okay. Thank you, my sir.

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Thank you.

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Bye.