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The truth isn't the only elusive thing out there.
In fact, whatever was floating over the Twin Cities area Thursday afternoon was so far out there that nobody knew definitively what it was, and by nightfall it still was unclaimed.
A white -- or silver by some accounts -- dot in the sky had residents and police calling the National Weather Service office in Chanhassen, asking if they had launched the elusive "it."
Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan also got calls from reporters hunting for clues.
"It's got nothing to do with us," Hogan said with a laugh. Federal Aviation Administration officials told airport folks that they thought it was a weather balloon.
But Weather Service meteorologists weren't claiming it.
"It's not ours, either," said meteorologist Rick Hiltbrand.
The Weather Service launches its tan balloons at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily. They are used to record temperature, barometric pressure and humidity.
They can reach heights of 100,000 feet and float for two hours before losing pressure and exploding, Hiltbrand said.
The truth is still out there. Somewhere.
Howie Padilla and Terry Collins