Posted on 04/27/2010 9:36:04 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - A Nacogdoches man gazed into Sunday night's sky, and was transfixed by mysterious bright shapes. He says he saw a UFO. "It was just sitting up there, just bouncing up and down, bouncing up and down, moving back and fourth," said Albert Davis.
He was driving home from work with his family when bright, flickering lights caught his eye. "We knew it wasn't from here on Earth because...we've seen jets flying around and I don't think [it was] jets," said Davis. "We knew jets couldn't make the moves it was making."
Davis says the UFO hovered above his apartment for two hours. Then, he spotted more. "And, one was over there and one was in the back out there - pretty good distance out in the back," he said. "It was just following us."
Davis believes what he saw was a flying saucer. He says he has never seen anything like it light up the night sky before. "[It] changed colors, threw something out of it, made a circle, it just made a circle and it shot back down toward the east way [and] disappeared," said Davis.
Astronomer Norman Markworth studies the East Texas sky. He says there is a logical explanation for this sighting. "There's a well-known psychological phenomena that if you look at something bright against a blank background it might appear to move on you," explained Markworth. "So, I feel certain that what we have here is a sighting of Venus."
Despite what anyone thinks, Davis says he knows exactly what he saw and will never forget. "Now, I'll probably look into space every night wondering if it's going to return or what's going to happen next," he said.
Davis says he is a little nervous after his UFO sighting and has had trouble sleeping.
The Old Stone Fort is the modern name of a historic building, called La Casa Piedra by the Spanish. It was the first mercantile house and a frequent seat of civil government in early Nacogdoches. In 1779 Antonio Gil Ibarvo laid out the town near the intersection of the Old San Antonio Road and La Calle del Norte and built a stone house to use in the trading business. It was constructed of the native iron ore that occurs in the area abundantly. The interior walls were made of ten-by-fourteen-inch sun-dried adobe blocks. Hand-hewn black walnut was used for sills and casements. The structure measured seventy feet along the Old San Antonio Road and twenty-three feet along Fredonia Street, as this lateral street was later called.
No photo as usual, and in an era where everybody has a cell phone and every cell phone has a camera.
Nacogdoches? Close to Stepehville?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Stephenville+ufo+&aq=f&aqi=g9&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
In most cases, UFOs come and go so rapidly, that even having a cell phone camera with you is no guarantee you'll be able to capture a picture of it.
In this case, however, the witness says that the UFOs were visible over his house for "two hours." That's more than enough time to find a camera and take hundreds of images.
Hell, he could have called the whole neighborhood together so that lots of others could witness what he was seeing. Would have gotten some good video out of that, to boot.
Fail.
Relevance?
Not even by Texas standards.
My guess is an empty beer can.......UFO's are known to party hearty.
None whatsoever.
I understand...
;-{)
Yep...and they always do fail. You know with all the technology today you would think the groupies who follow the latest appearances would have at least invested in some serious technology themselves. People who truly believe in something do put their money where their mouth is. How many take courses in astronomy to understand the universe itself? or are they laptop sitters taking in all the latest opinions of everyone else. Spending hours on end without little understanding of the factual understandings of the universe, gravity, allusions,how streams of light can or not distort etc.etc.etc. They don’t invest because in doing so it would be work and it would disprove much of their belief.
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