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 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: UFO sighting in Texas. |
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This is probably for the UFO forum but since so many people come to Gerneral I thought it should go here.
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Dozens in Texas town report seeing UFO By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jan 14, 6:37 PM ET
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.
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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." |
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| You beat me to it! I got pretty excited when I saw this article on the headlines. It's nice to see this type of reports getting more attention. Thanks for the post. |
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Hello Everyone: This seems to be pretty profound. I think there will be more sightings all over the world. This is great then we can get more "eveidence" you know? Be about time that Humans welcome the Extraterrestrials. There are many positive E.T.'s. They are not all negative like most people think this is just a deception. I think its awesome, what the E.T's can bring!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: Hey |
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This looks like it is gaining attention. That means one thing...if there is any legitimacy it will be explained(or attempted) and forgotten. This is very simmilar to the Chicago airport incident...how it was gaining attention and then...nothing.
One thing this has going for it is that this seems to be a flap and many people witnessed it. The one problem no conclussive photos or video....stange that so many have viewed but none can capture any images.
I saw a video sent in by some hicks..but it only made the case worse..and of course this is the kind of nonsense they air on the news and of course the news casters immedietly joke on it. I heard there is a random photo...but other than those two elements...nothing.
I will wait for more information to come before I start to investigate. One thing of note, if you look at a map of the sight area...the regions that suuround the sight are most interesting. Roswell, Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico.
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Oh I just love it when the military says, "no it wasn't us" and then later says, "oh yeah we had some F-16's in the area." Everybody knows what an F-16 sounds like, they're noisy as hell. You can hear them a long way off. Not very stealthy those F-16's. Statements like that just make people distrust the military even more. I wish they would just say, "it was us and it was training mission and we can't discuss it in more detail", and leave it at that. Changing their story sounds like they are trying to hide something or they are just bafoons that don't know where their aircraft are (which actually does happen believe it or not, even ones carrying nukes). I mean, as soon as the story hits the news media any "enemy" is gonna assume its military anyway, so who do they think they are fooling?
Now where did we park that F-16, Ethel? |
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if aliens are real then best to chase the things away
too many complaints about them abducting people
i seen hundreds of ufo's but no aliens they seem to look lile rainbows to me
cant reach em |
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