Ramsey 1998

Ramsey 1998 06-27-98 Ramsey, Minnesota Reporter: Tim Hagemeister, Director-NACOMM. Experience: At approximately 19:45 on June 27 in Ramsey, Minnesota (30miNorth of Minneapolis) as my family was finishing a late supper in our home,our 10 year old son Ariel stepped out on the deck to scan for storm clouds.Since we have had quite a few powerful thunderstorms this week, he wasintently watching the skies.As my wife, Yvonne and I were visiting with my father, my son beganto yell from the deck, "Dad, come and see the UFO!" Thinking that he wasplaying a joke on us I replied, "Yeah, right!" After his persistence forthe next 10 seconds I decided to play along and go out and see."See" he said, "It's right up there now." He was pointing at North 330degrees and almost directly above us. At first I couldn't see anythingand was about to go inside when he pointed it out again.To my amazement there was a black "dot" about the size of a pencil erasurewhen held at arms length traveling just below the cloud ceiling. It wasmoving the speed of a typical night time satellite at a steady pace headingN330'. Knowing that there was time to get a closer view, I asked for my10X50 binoculars and was able to view it for another 30 seconds along withmy wife. It seemed to have a triangular shape to me but my wife claimedit was circular.I was about to write off the sighting as a B1, B2 or F117 due to itsstark black color when it just stopped for about 10 seconds in place. Bothmy wife and myself witnessed the suspended motion until the lower scatteredcloud cover blocked it from view. After the lower cloud cover cleared wewere unable to find it again.There is the possibility of a balloon as well but again, the objectdid stop from distancing itself from our line of sight for around 10-15seconds. Because at this point it was about 45' above the horizon and heading away from our vantage point, it should have become increasingly smallerbut retained its size for the suspended time. Very unlikely for a balloonunless caught in some type of back draft.The object's shape seemed to remain constant on departure, this alsogives credence to the ball shape verses the triangular Home Page

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