Posted on 04/23/2015 4:16:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
If what follows sounds like a scene from the sci-fi disaster flick Independence Day, imagine what President George W. Bush must have thought on the night of January 8, 2008 as he contemplated his ranch home in Crawford, Texas.
At around 8:00 pm, an enormous, hovering craft with ridiculously bright lights, at least 1,000 feet long (though some witnesses said a mile long), was tracked on multiple radars heading straight for the president's ranch at low speed. The craft lacked a required transponder, was totally unidentified, did not respond to any attempts at communication, and was flying through restricted airspace.
The craft had been observed during the previous hour and a half by a multitude of witnesses, including a constable, a former air traffic controller, the chief of police, and a private pilot. It was apparently doing the impossible. The object was alternately hovering, slowly cruising at low altitude, and suddenly accelerating to over 2,000 miles per hour. No known aircraft of any nation is remotely this size or can perform maneuvers like this.
The private pilot, Steve Allen, told the local paper that "[w]e all flipped out. I didn't sleep a wink last night." Allen had been at the home of Mike Odom in Selden about 6:15 p.m. when they suddenly noticed flashing lights about "3,500 feet above ground level." Mr. Allen estimated the speed of the craft at "about 3,000 miles per hour," heading toward Stephenville.
President Bush must surely have expressed some frustration at the response of the United States Air Force. Later FOIA requests for radar data and flight logs from Carswell Air Station revealed that a squadron of F-16 Fighting Falcons was in the air nearby for 71 minutes during the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Paging Art Bell...
Skeptics say the military was dropping flares that night.
And Quix.
Dammit, the coffee in the nostrils burns!
“Swamp Gas”
“Swamp Gas”
ID4
No, I don’t remember
Hillary?
Another one from the Truther Files.
Where was H!’s broom that night?
I want to believe.
Indeed. I wonder how the UFO crowd explains this simple statistic:
1980: Percent of people carrying a camera = Approximately ZERO.
2015: Percent of people carrying a camera = (I'm guessing) 50%.
We have all these iPhones with their built in cameras that can shoot photos and video. Everybody's got one. So where is the glut of new high definition UFO images and video?
Thanks
No. I do not remember that.
But IF some thousand foot long aircraft WAS flying 3,000 mph at 3,500 ft altitude it probably got the attention of everyone in the area.
No. I do not remember that.
But IF some thousand foot long aircraft WAS flying 3,000 mph at 3,500 ft altitude it probably got the attention of everyone in the area.
Broomstick One - I forgot about that!
Oh yeah, I totally remem...wait, what?
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