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I've got one for you guys. We've been watching it since 145 Minneapolis local time. Its

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location at present is about 45 degrees west of Polaris at approximately 45 degrees above

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the horizon. It appears to be a pin shaped object with the right portion towards one

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end. It's generally blue white as approximately the first magnitude or better. It traveled

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from south to north. It's made several rather intricate maneuvers including corkscrews, spirals

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and 45 degree laterals from a parent's directional flight. It doesn't appear to be a skyhawk,

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balloon or satellite from what we can see through our telescope. It is radiating five

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different colors at various times. There's a central white portion surrounded by two

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blue, a red and a green light.

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Okay and these maneuvers are quite positive?

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Well definitely. Well you can see it maneuvering without the heated telescope. We're only using

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the telescope to try to get a closer look. That's how we've got the colors. It's pulsating

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and like I said there are six of us here and we can see it maneuver with the naked eye.

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Okay. And how long have you watched that?

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We've been watching it since 145 Minneapolis time.

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Okay. It's still there and we're still tracking it.

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Any estimation of how many degrees far that thing has moved so far? Has it just spotted it?

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Oh Gad it's moved. I'll get the R astronomer here.

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Ask Jeff how many degrees moved since you first spotted it.

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If you were to take a, this is very unscientific, but if you were to take a yardstick and hold it out at

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bottom's length from you, it would have moved in my opinion about 24 inches.

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Okay. Does this thing seem to gain or lose altitude?

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Our astronomer in our group here says it's moved at least 20 degrees.

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Okay. And it's gone from a point where it was about the size of a quarter when we first spotted it.

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It's down now to the size of about a penny.

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Okay. And it, like I said, it moved from south to north and then it looks like it's going away.

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We've been tracking it in relation to two other stars. At first we had, it was an equilateral triangle

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with it being the base. And now it's more like an esophilis triangle.

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And like I said, from that particular point it sets it off for about five, six minutes and then it started doing

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crazy maneuvers. Cork screws, 45 degree laterals, up and down, sudden stops.

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Okay. Well those corkscrew maneuvers on the vertical, vertical plane.

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Verticals are horizontal planes.

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Okay.

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Well, hey, I'd like to talk to you.

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Okay.

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From what we've been seeing, it's moving in pretty much of a horizontal plane as we're facing, as if it was on the surface

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of a plane that we were looking perpendicularly down upon.

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And it's moving in an area about five degrees wide and about five degrees of altitude,

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sort of a fairly small area as if we're jockeying for position or something.

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Okay. Are you watching that behind a clear sky?

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Yeah. As a matter of fact, the sky is a crystal clear.

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Okay.

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And as, let's see, there's one, two, three, four, five.

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There are seven of us here that've seen this thing, ranging in profession from deputy sheriff to unemployed.

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Okay. Where'd you get our number?

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I called the FAA office to report it near Minneapolis and they referred us to you.

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Now would that be the airport?

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Yeah, out at the airport.

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Okay.

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Well, we sure appreciate you reporting this thing and we'll check it out and we'll come up with any more information.

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

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Thank you much.

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Thank you.