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Do you want to go to a reporting center?

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Yes, in Atomah, Iowa.

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Yes, sir.

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And this may or may not be the name.

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I feel very ridiculous for having called you, but I did call the FAA at our local service station, and they referred me to this number.

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Fine.

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So, like I say, for what it's worth, I was curious.

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What is your location? Where am I calling now?

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Washington.

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Washington, D.C.

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No, Washington, State of Washington.

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Oh, okay.

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I have no idea about longitude, latitude, or anything.

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But if you, and like I say, it could very well be a satellite, a weather balloon.

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I've never seen one quite like it before.

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But I've been watching for about the last 35 minutes, and it just went over at six o'clock over the horizon.

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It was about 10 degrees up until 10 minutes ago.

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But anyway, from my location in Atomah, Iowa, it was moving from the east southeast to the west northwest.

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And in 30 or 35 minutes, it covered perhaps 30 degrees on the compass.

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So, like I say, and I think now, apparently, we must have a cloud bank or something because it went out of sight about, like I say, in relationships with the horizon.

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About 10 or 15 degrees above it.

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Okay, now that was south-south-east of northwest?

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Yes, sir.

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Okay, well, we can rule out the satellite.

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Okay, well, like I say, there's definitely no pulsation.

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I'm not an alarmist.

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I was being law enforcement for about 11 years, and I've seen a lot of planets and thought it was wrong and stuff like that.

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Okay, now when did you first spot that?

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Well, in relationship to where I'm sitting, like I say, in Atomah, Iowa, which is in the southeast corner of the state, I thought it about looking, I would say, perhaps as close to do north as I can get.

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Perhaps a little bit west.

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I thought at probably one o'clock and took sightings on it in relationship to fixed objects on the ground.

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And it was moving at that time in relationship to the clock from 1 to 3 or 3.30 and moving, like I say, north-northwest.

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And when it went out of sight, it was between, I would say, about 5.30 in relationship to what I'm looking at.

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Okay.

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I could figure it would be about 10 or 15 degrees above the horizon.

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I thought I could look.

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When I called the FAA, the gentleman I talked to out there, and I told him, you know, in regards, well, in relationship to the strip out there, I thought it would be 4 or 5 o'clock to him.

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He said the only thing he could see was a, what appeared to be a star, you know, different lights, green, yellow and all this good stuff.

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Well, I can see that, but what I was looking at in relationship to what he was seeing was perhaps, well, what he was looking at was 4 o'clock, and what I was seeing going beyond him was at 5 o'clock.

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Okay.

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And that was this evening?

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Yes, sir. That was up to within about 15 minutes ago, and I started looking at about 9.20.

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Okay.

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Now, you say there is a heavy cloud, Larry?

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Well, I don't know. That's the only thing that I, as brilliant as it was, that's the only thing I could assume the reason I would lose sight of it, just above the horizon, you know?

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Right, okay.

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Because we said my home is up on top of the hill, and I normally can look just, you know, to the horizon.

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But I lost it, like I say, perhaps 6 o'clock, 10 degrees above the horizon.

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Okay, now, would you compare this as being approximately as bright as some of the brightest stars in the sky?

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By far and away brighter, and that's what called, and that's the reason it wasn't, and like I say, it wasn't as bright as it was.

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And like I say, it wasn't a strobe light from a plane, you know, a cargo carrier, a ship or anything like this.

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I've looked at enough of those.

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It was a very consistent light.

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I guess it was different in that it was more metallic than a strobe would be.

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Okay.

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It wasn't as, you know, your strobe, to me, when I look at it with a naked eye, it looks, in fact, damn it, I couldn't find my sense binoculars tonight.

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Do this thing follow a street to flight path?

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Yeah, pretty much so.

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Okay.

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That's the reason, like I said, I was taking a relationship, as archaic or antiquated as it may seem, in a relationship to telephone poles,

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but I was looking out over and condensers and things like this so I could get a definite idea of the direction.

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Yes, I'm good.

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And it didn't deviate too much from that.

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I would say it was, that's the reason I thought perhaps it was a satellite on a fixed course or something like this.

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It didn't seem to deviate at all from a fixed path, but it was different than anything I've ever seen.

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We used to, you know, out of curiosity, look at a lot of them in Montana and Colorado where you got a lot more rarefied atmosphere,

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but this was completely different than anything I've ever seen.

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Okay.

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And you watched this until it just disappeared in the distance, right?

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Yes, sir.

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Okay.

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Like I say, I feel rather ascent for calling, but this man said, well, they just got the numbers, you know,

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you want to report a UFO and I said, hey, I don't want to report a UFO, not a hovercraft, you know,

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it's not going to come down and eat my kids or anything like this, but it was a little different than anything I encountered about 30 years.

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Well, we sure appreciate the report.

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This type of information is very important to this organization.

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And if we come up with any additional information on this, why we'll get back to you and let you know.

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I would appreciate it.

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All right.

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Thank you very much, sir.

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Thanks again.

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Bye-bye.