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The Minneapolis Star retaliated that "unusually bright stars and B-52's are not strange multi-colored objects that bounce up and down like yo-yo's, hover, dart away at breakneck speeds and occasionally line up in formation and fly off into space." Nearly every one of more than 50 police and sheriff's officers on the road between 12:20 A.M. and 2:30 A.M. called in to report seeing the objects. The police officers, who had witnessed the flight patterns of the UFO's, weren't about to accept any official debunking. "We saw three different objects," a patrolman reported. "They looked like white stars with green and red flashing lights. One stopped dead overhead for about 20 minutes, then took off in a northeasterly direction, moving at a terrific rate of speed." A Shorewood officer, grimly aware of the Air Force's official decree that the Minneapolis citizens were seeing "unusually bright stars," had called in with one of the evening's first sightings at about 12:30 A.M. "| hope you don't think I'm crazy," he told the dispatcher, "but | just got passed by a star." Later, the officer made out a report that told of a brilliant, white, star-like object that had roared past his', patrol car at a low altitude. After seven straight nights of increasingly active saucer activity, the Denver Post, on August 9th, published a "UFO log." 5:50 P.M. - Bill Lamberton, 17, of 1266 University Blvd., driving home from work west on W. Mississippi- Ave., watched a silver object hovering in the air which looked at first like a cylinder, then flew up in the sky and disappeared west over the mountains." Lamberton observed it for six or seven seconds, as did two passengers’ in his car. 9:15 P.M. - Randy Holmes, 16, of 6120 Everett St. ... reported sighting a "bright, yellow cigar-shaped ob- ject going along the horizon. It vanished completely to the northeast."