The Stephenville Texas UFO was reportedly seen by dozens of people as the locals claim to have seen a large metal object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some say they saw fighter jets chasing the UFO.
“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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#1 NO AIRCRAFT......
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."
#2 If the military is going to
If the military is going to try to sell us a cover story, wouldn't you think they would try to make it at least "remotely" believable. I would respect them a lot more if they just said they didn't know what it was and leave it at that, instead of insulting our intelligence by offering such a ridiculous explanation. I've seen enough jet airliners to pick one out of a line-up, even at sunset - and I'm pretty sure they don't "hover".
#3 yet not ONE photo?
yet not ONE photo?
#4 An article that might
An article that might provide some context for the Stephenville, Texas, situation is: “Researchers, others visit Stephenville to gather information, insight about UFO sightings” (AmericanChronicle.com, January 16, 2008) at …
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/49385
#5 UFO?
When I was around 10 my friend and I were stitting in her front yard facing our coastal mountains. The alaska night flight came over the range usually at dusk. It comes straight out of the north and then begins the turn west to the Vancouver International Airport. This night we saw the headlight of the plane and watched as it came over the mountain. Instead of it making the usual bank left it continued it's course directly south. It was coming straight at us. As we watched it began to drop in altitude. It was continuing to drop in a controlled fashion as it got closer to us and the ground we thought "Helicopter". We were too far away to hear the engine. It looked to be just over the Fraser River close to the Port Mann Bridge. It hovered for a few seconds, The light was pulsating and to our amazement it took off straight up until the light disappeared into the sky. We kept looking to see if it would come back or not. We both looked at each other and said did you just see what I saw? The sky was completely clear, there was no wind, nothing. A second later the Alaska Night Flight made it's way over the mountain, did the familiar bank to the left and continued on it's way to the Airport. It was totaly dark within 30 min. of our "sighting"
It has always bugged me and we were always told that we had "active imaginations".
I now live on Vancouver Island. I am 46 and have not seen anything out of the ordinary since. I do not know if you could say I believe in UFO's I just have no logical explanation of what we both saw that night.
In my local paper a couple of years ago there were apparent sightings of something unusual. Someone had a video and another pictures. I didn't see anything and the photos looked like all the others - grainey and hard to make out. The people who had the sightings seemed to be just like my friend and I. Just not able to logically explain what they saw.
I have been told it happens all the time. Why are there no photos that are clear? If there are so many sightings what's next? Contact? Is this just the Government trying to find out how the public reacts to the extraordinary? Are they testing machines beyond our comprehension? My biggest question is should we be concerned?
Christine
#6 ufos
When i was about 11 i was in Pennsylvania with family. I took a walk with my friend and it was dark and about 8 o'clock. There was only one way into this neighborhood and 1 way out. We started to walk the circle of the neighborhood and then suddenly felt "lost" but we couldnt be, it was one road. As we walked, out of nowhere we heard this loud engine, ( i thought there was a giant tractor or something coming up behind us) but there was nothing. Until we looked up and saw it. Huvering right over us, RIGHT OVER US... It was something. Big, lots of lights all around it. Couldnt be a helicopter, it would've chopped down trees, made some kind of motions. I screamed, my friend covered my mouth and we ran and ran and ran. Suddenly the lights swooped straight up into the air and vanished. Guess where... Right over the house we were staying at. We suddenly were standing in front of the house again. We ran inside to see if anyone heard anything, they said no. We tryed to explain, but we were young. All the adults just looked at us like we were nuts. Turns out we never spoke of it again. I am 37 now, and my longtime friend from that night ( we keep in touch with xmas cards etc) well, she visited me after all these years with her kids, and she asked me about that night. She too was so releaved to find out it happend. She had told her husband and kids, and they laugh at her, and no one really believes me all these years i'm sure. My husband stood here, quite suprised at our discussion. we both remember that night exactly the same. So it happend, and we saw a UFO. No doubt in my mind.
#7 UFO activity 1/24/08
This evening, two co-workers of mine stated that they and a 3rd co-worker saw an unusual orange light that at first they thought was a bright star, but then began to move erratically and appear to take a rod shape. This was at 18:35 (6:35 p.m.) 1/24/08, directly straight above the southern end of Colorado Springs, CO. When they told me this they were clearly struggling with how to express what they saw. Then later at about 8:10 p.m. we were sitting in a bar/lounge watching CNN and Larry King Live was on with a live broadcast talking about UFO sightings in Texas. At that moment my co-workers sat there in a somewhat stunned state of concentration completely transfixed by this co-incidence of events. I personally have never seen anything I would call a UFO, but by seeing their behavior and their difficulty expressing what they saw I certainly believe they had witnessed something that is not of any known human origin or creation. If it is some type of human made craft it has to be some incredible new secret technology.
Which leads me to present this theory which many people have not heard of: the Hollow Earth Theory. Everyone is looking to outer space for UFOs yet we never have any detection of crafts entering into our space. Perhaps the origins of UFOs are from "INSIDE" the earth. A lava core is the common belief and theory (there is no definitive proof the earth has a solid or lava core). The earth could be somewhat like a soccer ball, with a hollow interior in which there are other life forms we have not discovered or identified. Access in and out of the interior could be through deep sea channels, tunnels, or entry points at the north and south poles.
Anyway, there is certainly and escalation of reports and media coverage.
#8 I don't understand something
I know of UFO in a personal way i seen them know of there patterns and when you most likely see one and were, on the east cost. but the goverment is hiding something but i think what ever they are they'er getting piss the goverment has been holding back to long they want to be known and time is running out for the goverment to come clean on the subject. they are starting to take it in there own handle or what ever they have to let the people know of there present there is a reason why the rush too something else is going on also