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Hello.

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Yes, sir.

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This is the UFO Reporting Center.

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Oh, how are you?

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We understand you saw something in the sky.

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Yeah.

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Another officer myself, we were signing off at a restaurant, get dinner, but we signed

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off at 1650.

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Yes.

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And a bunch of people stand out there in the parking lot looking up at that time, pointed

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it out to us and was a metallic oblong jobby.

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And first I thought maybe weather balloon, I'm a pilot.

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Yes.

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But I've never seen an oblong weather balloon.

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It's really hard to tell you how high it really was, not knowing the dimensions of it or anything.

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Right.

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But I stood there and watched for about five minutes or so and I had the dispatcher call

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the airport to see if maybe they had a plane in the area that might be able to get up there

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and get a better look at it.

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And right after that it started climbing and it went up until it was just, you know, a

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little speck in the sky and every time, apparently it was moving a little as it was going up

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because we catch metallic glimpses when the sun would hit it, it was through reflections

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back down at us.

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So I called Columbus to check and see if maybe they had any idea.

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Any weather instruments or anything out in the area and they said no.

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Plus, well, they said like I thought that nothing oblong as far as weather instruments

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go.

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And I asked them for the winds along and they gave those to me and this thing went, what

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appeared to us was straight up.

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And if it had been some type of balloon or something it should have been, you know, blown

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one way or the other and it wasn't.

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So I don't know.

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It was awful strange.

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Okay, was this object oblong on the horizontal or vertical plane?

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Horizontal.

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Okay.

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Did it remain on the horizontal as it ascended?

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Yes, same to.

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Okay.

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It kind of wobbled back and forth for the little bit that we could see it until it really

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started deaning altitude and when it started going up it really went up.

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And last we saw it, it was just going up.

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We have scattered clouds here and it was just going up between some scattered clouds and

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we lost it.

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Okay, now was this wobble incomparable to the swinging pendulum?

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It was really hard to tell because it was a little bit more than just a little bit of

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wobble.

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It was really hard to tell because the way the sun was reflecting back off of it, whatever

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it was, it was metallic because it was real bright and shiny because when, you know, it

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would catch a ray of sun it would, you know, really throw a bright flash back at you.

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Yes.

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So whether it was a highly polished metal of some kind.

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Okay, then the city who made your call this thing started to ascend, is that correct?

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Right.

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Okay.

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I just got your call out to the airport because I knew they had some people out flying today.

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I had been out there a little earlier and you know, just to see if there might be somebody

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in the area close enough they could try to go out and get a look at it.

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Okay, did you watch this until it disappeared from your site?

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Right.

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Okay, and that would be straight up?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I hope patrolman was with me.

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We both stood there in the parking lot with about 50 other people watching the thing and

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nobody, you know, had any good ideas about what it was.

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There was another pilot there too, right?

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I don't know what his name was.

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I don't think he's from the area and he didn't know what to think of it either.

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How long do you feel you watch that?

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We find off at 1650 and how long did we watch it?

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Just a second, check the log.

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Okay.

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Wasn't there about 10 minutes so I'd be pretty close.

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Okay.

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What was your first name, sir?

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It was the other patrolman.

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Okay, so we get your age?

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29.

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29.

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And what was officer's age?

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He's 30.

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30, you know?

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He's over the hill.

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Is there anything that you could add to what the other officer described?

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No, other than I'd never seen anything quite like it.

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You know, he's a little more knowledgeable on that subject being a pilot, you know, and

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I couldn't give you a guess as far as height or anything, you know, but it was just kind

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of unusual.

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Okay, was there any estimate of size?

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Can you compare it with anything?

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It would be difficult, you know, when first seeing it was, of course, you know, a pair

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of larger and then it was ascended, it got smaller in view.

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I would hate to not be having much experience along that line.

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I'd hate to say.

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Okay, let's say you held a ruler at arm's length into the area of the sky where you're watching

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this.

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How would that compare with the measurement on that ruler?

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Just a guess would be about 12 inches of foot at arm's length.

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Yeah.

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Held a ruler.

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I'm talking to a period of over.

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If you held a ruler at arm's length, compare that to the area of the sky, how much would

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that have covered?

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12 inches, roughly?

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I've been a scholar.

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I've been a scholar.

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It's a place.

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No.

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It's just real hard to tell.

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Okay, fine.

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All right, sir.

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Well, we sure appreciate your cooperation there and if we come up with any information

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regarding what this thing was, why we'll get back to you and let you know.

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Okay, we sure appreciate it.

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It might answer a lot of questions.

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Thank you very much.

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Okay, thank you.

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Bye.