All points bulletin: Navy's goat is alive and well, and, ahem, in Army custody.

It had been a month since Bill, the Naval Academy's mascot, had vanished from a farm in Gambrills. But yesterday, after West Point announced amnesty for anyone who had anything to do with the goat's disappearance, at least one Army cadet turned himself in.

"The goat has been found," Lt. Col. James Whaley, the West Point spokesman, announced yesterday afternoon. "We are in the process of notifying our Naval counterparts."

For as long as Navy and Army have clashed on a football field, midshipmen and cadets have tried to out-prank each other. But a deal signed by the schools in 1991 was supposed to put an end to the uncanny tendency of mascots to go missing before the big game. The agreement came after midshipmen launched a commando-style raid on a veterinary clinic that housed four Army mules, leading Army helicopters in a wild chase that ended in Annapolis when authorities ordered the midshipmen from their vehicles.

So when Bill, an Angora, disappeared over Veterans Day weekend, Navy was reluctant to point fingers.

Then a cadet approached The New York Times, which quoted him anonymously yesterday claiming credit for the theft. Annapolis was in no mood to joke. "Army-Navy week is a special season of fun and revelry," the Naval Academy spokesman, Cmdr. Bill Spann, said. "But you draw the line at anything that damages property or demeans character."

The unnamed kidnapper told his West Point superiors yesterday that the goat was on a farm in Pennsylvania. A veterinarian took possession of the animal and reported that the horned beast was in the pink.

West Point has promised Annapolis a speedy return. "We're in the middle of a storm," said Whaley, "but we're going to try to move it in an expeditious and safe manner."