Observation of a |/S/|=1 baryon state at a mass of 1.528~GeV in quasi-real photo production, *Ken Garrow*, HERMES Collaboration/TRIUMF/ – /The predictions for exotic baryon states consisting of a five quark structure have existed for some two decades. Up until the past couple of years no evidence of such exotic baryon configurations had been observed. Recently several photo production experiments and an experiment using the K^+ Xe reaction have reported the observation of an exotic _ baryon state. In the HERMES experiment, using quasi-real photo production on a deuterium target, a narrow baryon state has been observed in the _ decay channel. The HERMES contribution to the existing world's data set of this exotic baryon, now referred to as the q^+ , is the most accurate mass determination and the first indication of a finite width.