“It is the talk of the town right now” says Angela Joiner, a local newspaper reporter.
While town officials search for a logical explanation such as an army aircraft, residents say the UFO was too big, too quiet, and flew too low to the ground to be a plane.
A Joint Reserve Naval Air Station spokesman says that an aircraft from the base were in the area on January 8, when the bulk of UFO sightings were reported. He also mentioned that the UFO might just be an optical illusion created by two commercial planes.
A freight company owner who saw the UFO, Steve Allen, said "People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," He claims that the UFO he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."
Fourteen percent of Americans were surveyed last year stating that they have seen a UFO before.
According to the Mutual UFO Network, California, Colorado and Texas receive about 200 UFO sightings per month.
The Mutual UFO Network plans to visit the town to investigate the Stephenville UFO.
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There were not any aircraft reported in that area on Jan 8th, Your article states this:
A Joint Reserve Naval Air Station spokesman says that an aircraft from the base were in the area on January 8, when the bulk of UFO sightings were reported. He also mentioned that the UFO might just be an optical illusion created by two commercial planes
News article states the following:
"Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.
Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.
"I'm 90 percent sure this was an airliner," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."
Officials at the region's two Air Force bases - Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls - also said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs."