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Yes, this is Collette from Newman Police Department in California.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Thank you.

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Go ahead.

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How you doing?

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Yes, sir.

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This is Austin Newman PD.

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Yes, sir.

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In California.

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Uh-huh.

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And, uh, well, I was talking to my partner.

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Okay.

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I think we were on patrol.

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You know, back here, it's about three in the morning.

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Great.

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We noticed lights to our east.

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And it was just over an over-eight field, about 500 feet.

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And we were about 60 feet away, and we had to go around the block.

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And by the time we came around the block, he started moving.

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And, you know, it just disappeared.

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Okay.

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And that's all you could see with the lights?

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That's it.

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They had two red lights and one blue light.

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It was in a triangular-type shape.

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Oh, really?

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And it took off at speed, if you can't believe it.

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We chased it, and it just vanished before we could even round another corner.

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And I spent 20 years in service, 14 in the Air Force, and never seen it move so fast in my life.

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It's unbelievable.

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We read your reports, and that's, well, maybe we ought to report it.

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I don't know.

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But it, uh, I've never believed in this until now.

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Because this thing was just, it just fascinates me to know it.

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Okay, now, were these lights absolutely stationary?

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Yeah, it was absolutely stationary.

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My partner went on the other line, and he said,

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Hey, what's that red and blue light up there?

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I thought, somebody must have put up a new antenna.

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Let's go check it out.

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And it was just, actually, it's on the street that I live on.

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And we went, oh, it was about 50, 60 feet.

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Yeah.

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And it started moving.

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And I thought, hey, that damn thing's moving.

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And we took off around the corner.

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And as we were on the corner, we seen it go,

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and we went to Super, or maybe about two miles,

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and it just, the plane disappeared.

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And it was absolutely no sound.

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It was just fantastic.

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Uh-huh.

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I said, well, maybe we better report it.

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They'll think we're nuts, but we'll report it anyway.

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Okay, what time do you spot that?

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About two, I'd say, we'd like to find out if it's two,

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about two, twenty, I'd say.

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Okay.

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And it headed southeast out of our area.

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Okay.

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We're in the San Joaquin Valley.

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Okay, I'd like to get to your names.

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Okay.

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We even shut off the headlights of our units,

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because I thought, I said,

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down some lights, I want to take a look at it.

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And it was just, it was just by some speed

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that you can't describe it.

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It was just unbelievable.

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And this thing was on the move when you saw it actually disappear?

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When it disappeared, it was stopped when we saw it.

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Right.

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It was hanging there about five or six hundred feet up.

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Right.

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And like I said, we thought something was directly a new antenna.

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And then as we came around off of Amy,

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we drove onto the homeless street.

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You were in the street?

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Yeah, onto the, well onto the hot, is it hot in the ghosting there?

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What's the one that goes across the edge?

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Oh, that's Grifko.

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Grifko?

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Yeah.

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I told Tate that damn thing's starting to move.

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And we rounded, which is just a very short distance,

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maybe 50, 60 feet around the corner there.

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And as we rounded the corner, you looked as it took off

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and we went after it and I told my partner,

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get a dose of lights because I want to see it.

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And it just disappeared to the south-east like you wouldn't believe.

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Okay.

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Fascinating.

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Do you have any estimate as to how far apart those lights were positioned?

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Well, just from what we were looking at,

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we were looking at it from the very middle of the eye, right?

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About 20, 30 feet?

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Yeah.

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And it was a train-like shape type thing.

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Okay.

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The PG&E power company is right behind it,

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right where it was after the Great Big Field,

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where it was hanging over.

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And then just at the end of that field,

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the PG&E power company, so I thought maybe they could do

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beacon up there for the aircraft from a little field here.

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But I said, there's absolutely no sound.

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The windows were open, we just dropped the sergeant off.

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There's absolutely no sound at all.

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And that's how vicious it took off, like, I can't believe.

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Okay, now, would that be a power plant generating plant?

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Yeah, right.

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Okay, great.

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I'm glad you mentioned that.

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Okay, did you have it?

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The control's a power plant as well, there we go.

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Yeah, PG&E's right there.

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Did you have any problems with your vehicle or radio during that period?

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I was so damn fascinated, I didn't even notice the radio to you.

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I didn't either.

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I just couldn't take my eyes off this thing.

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Okay.

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Wait a minute, we just batched some of something.

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What did you say, babe?

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I think it was 220, right after we just batched.

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What was your saying about this?

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That was before that, when we were coming through.

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I just batched, we ran a check just about that same time,

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which shortly after, we had a repeat issue,

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we couldn't copy it here, but I don't know,

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it's just, I was just so fascinated with this thing,

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I want to chase it up until, no way.

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Okay.

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Now, is that within the city of Modesto?

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No, it's the city of Newman.

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Newman, okay.

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27 miles south of Modesto, southwest of Modesto.

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We're right off of I-5.

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Okay, gentlemen, well, we sure appreciate you reporting this.

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Okay.

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We'll check this out, and if we come up with any additional

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information on it, we'll get back to you and let you know.

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Yeah, we went out, we had a little small runway out here,

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and we went out there, and I told you,

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let me check, make sure that somebody's flying around,

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but we would have heard noise, of course, like I said,

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this thing was definitely stopped, there's no two ways about it.

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And it's all the years I spent in the service,

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I never seen anything move like it, so.

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Did it leave any trail or anything, what a way?

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Not that I noticed.

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I just felt that nice as you get my pilot and get going

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so I could get a good look at it, but it just disappears

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so fast, it's unbelievable.

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Right, okay.

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Okay, thank you again.

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Okay, thank you, sir.

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Right.