Dozens Report Fighter Jets Chasing UFO In Texas…?
I would be remiss in my duties if I skipped over this story simply because of the sheer number of places it is popping up, and because of how many people reported seeing this thing.
I just never bought into the idea that a real UFO from another world would actually have “lights”…you know, red on the port side and green on the starboard…ok ok, I’m being mean.
Wouldn’t want to do that. I personally am convinced that 99% of “legitimate” UFO sightings are more than likely experimental military aircraft, or other anomalies like a kid’s bunch of party baloons that escaped, or some such thing.
However, I would be a fool to be completely closed-minded about it and so therefore I leave that 1% open to…well, just maybe…lots of Old Testament accounts of weird shit nobody could possibly explain. Then there’s the modern day witnesses…many crackpots, but some real credible ones too…but I ramble…
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.
Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.
“People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it’s the end of times,” said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. “It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts.”
While federal officials insist there’s a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object’s lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.
Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
“You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal,” Sorrells said. “It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I’m not crazy.”
Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle’s telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.
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.
One man has offered a reward for a photograph or videotape of the mysterious object.
About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.
Fourteen percent of Americans polled last year by The Associated Press and Ipsos say they have seen a UFO.
Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan said that he first saw red glowing lights and then white flashing lights moving fast, but that even with binoculars could not see the object to which the lights were attached.
“I didn’t see a flying saucer and I don’t know what it was, but it wasn’t an airplane, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Gaitan said. “I think it must be some kind of military craft — at least I hope it was.”
(AP)
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Hey Bash, if you think this was creepy, Read “Incident At Exeter” by John G. Fuller. An entire town in NH went nuts for one night seeing flying saucers bigger than houses, including the entire police force!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pmI used to always be a skeptic but these days it makes me wonder sometimes. I mean space is complete infite, scientists say there maybe 10,000 galaxies that look just like ours and more than that of other kinds, kinda hard to believe we’re the only life form in all of that space. But who even knows. I have never seen anything strange like that in the sky
January 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pmhey maybe the aliens can come up with a solution to alquaeda hahaah “feed us islamic extremists” haahah
January 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pmBash the answer to this is very simple….Kucinich took Ron Paul out for a recruitment/joy ride trip.
Either that or those damn scientologists are on to something.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pmI tend to be very skeptical about this - and once again I am. I have to agree with Bash that this is probably some new military hardware which is very much in the developmental stages. A wise government keeps, or tries to keep, a couple cards up its sleeve - especially if the item in question has enormous potential. Aside from this, UFOs hardly affect my life. There’s quite little I can do about the issue and unlike Muslims, they currently pose no threat.
January 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pmDear Sirs,
I have seen UFO’s. One night over the Sahara Desert I saw two of them. About 3 hours into a mission at 3 AM, pressurized to about 12,000 feet. I told Commander Pruitt, the pilot, about them. He said “roger”. That was all.
Anybody who spends time looking at the sky will see things they can’t explain. Without familiar objects in view size and distance can be very confusing. Witness the well known optical illusions which regularly appear in the media. Stare into the spiral or look at the vases that blink back and forth into profiles. I believe they saw something. Extraterrestrials? No.
Regards,
January 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pmRoy
I’ve never seen one…I think one was seen over Iran emptying it’s latrine
January 15th, 2008 at 7:12 pmThe local DFW news just had a (another) story on it - I guess we are about an hour from Stephenville on this side of DFW - Anyhow they interviewed some of the different folks who saw “it” and one guy seemed really credible. He is a constable in an elected position so he was saying that future opponents could use this against him . . . They all saw something - not sure what?
January 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pmThere are billions and billions of galaxies in our universe, each one with billion and billions of stars and planets. The chances that our planet has the only life in the universe is very very close to zero. Intelligent life may be a different matter. If there are other intelligent life forms out there (good luck finding them) it shouldn’t be anymore of a surprise than seeing earths inhabitants go about their daily business. If the universe is old enough to have earths life develop here then is more than probable that it has happened elsewhere.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pmMy main reason for being skeptical is that I have trouble beleiving that a race of beings capable of routine space flight and apparent antigravity propulsion would not be able to keep their craft from crashing in the New Mexico desert or elsewhere for that matter.
I to beleive its likely things other than other worldly beings.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:05 pmim pretty convinced its US military experimental stuff. the only time i ever saw any wacky stuff like this was on the beach in Port St Joe in Florida. it was crazy fireballs comming from the direction of the Air Force Testing facility about 20 miles up the beach. and sure enough right after i saw the fireballs 2 fighter jets flew by.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:14 pmAny chance this was near Ron Paul’s home town?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:09 amAnybody seen the Vice Pres. lately ?
January 16th, 2008 at 7:38 am@Kevin M
And check out UFO Crash in Kecksberg, PA, 1965 … Military was all over that one too.
As a kid I was into the whole UFO thing. Then I grew up and became more skeptical about such extended “space travel” across the Galaxy, or the Universe for that matter, by whatever level of conventional (craft) means. IF I have ANY ideas/explanations of the phenomena it now leans more toward the absurd theory of time travel. My “best-guess” theory (IF forced to voice one …) is these delightful little sickling-looking beings might be from our distant future where after generations our secular ways have led our science down dark paths that caused us to hybrid and homogenize our natural state beyond human recognition. You always hear “abductees” claim “experiments”, many of them sexual or genetic in nature … IF these creeps who allegedly steal folks from their beds at night or from camp sites at midnight are from our future then they are possibly coming here to do a bit of “Jurassic” Park work with us in order to bring back some of our [primitive] DNA to “replenish the herd”, if you will.
Other than that, I’ve pretty much completely abandoned the issue.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:53 amThere are more galaxies in the observable universe than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy (~200,000,000,000). It is also likely that the universe is much larger than what we can observe - the age of the universe only lets us see a fraction of it. Any civilization advanced enough to conquer the travel problem of the vast distances between stars, even in our own galaxy, is way too advanced for us to worry about. On the other hand, any equipment can break from time to time. You would think a crash could be pretty spectacular and not something we would miss. The more we discover, the more we discover that the world is both amazing and very odd in many respects.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:04 amDID YOU SEE THAT HTE PEOPLE SAID THAT THERE FIGHTER JETS CHSING THESE OBJECTS THE AIRFORCE SAID THAT THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS OVER TEXAS AND NOW THEY SAID THAT A FIGHTER JET CRASHED IN THE GULF OF MEXICO IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm