Different Frm Anything Resident Had Ever Seen

The Houston Chronicle ^ | 1/19/08 | Tara Dooley

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Jan. 19, 2008, 10:11PM 'Different than anything' resident had ever seen Hundreds meet with UFO experts to discuss sighting

By TARA DOOLEY Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments (1) Recommend (2) DUBLIN — James Huse came to state nothing but the facts. The theories would have to come later, he said.

So in pursuit of the truth, Huse traveled the few miles down the road from his home in Stephenville to the Rotary Club meeting hall in downtown Dublin on Saturday to tell this story:

On Jan. 8, shortly after dark, he was walking two house guests to their car near Stephenville's main square when he beheld a red glowing light moving slowly across the sky. He pointed up at the sky and said: "UFO."

"I know what an airplane looks like," the 53-year-old retired electronics technician said. "I know what a helicopter looks like. This wasn't an airplane or a helicopter.

"This looked different than anything I had ever seen," he added.

That was the gist of what Huse told the investigators from the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, at the Saturday gathering, he said.

It was a story, told in multiple versions, to investigators from the nonprofit group that calls itself "dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity."

The MUFON investigators rode into Dublin, a city famous as the home of a Dr Pepper museum and plant. Their goal was to look into the ruckus that has thrust this cowboy country of small towns and big skies into the international limelight.

Armed with a three-page questionnaire, investigators probed the memories of witnesses in one-on-one interviews.

"We are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery," said MUFON's Texas director, Ken Cherry. "We approach it from a scientific method and let the chips fall as they may."

The mystery unfolded with stories like Huse's.

Before Saturday's gathering, dozens of people had filed reports with the group, Cherry said. Most told of an unidentified object seen between 6:15 p.m. Jan. 8 and 4 a.m. the next day.

At the Dublin Rotary Club building, about 200 possible witnesses told their tale, Cherry said. It was many more than could be handled with the 50 copies of the questionnaire that MUFON members had brought with them.

The hall — normally filled with revelers for events such as the annual Dr Pepper, St. Patrick's Day and homecoming celebrations — was packed with about 500 people. Some of them were witnesses; others were curious area residents, some wearing aluminum foil hats and T-shirts proclaiming Stephenville the UFO capital of the world.

They were all stuck behind a semi-circle of television cameras and reporters flanking Cherry and Steve Hudgeons, assistant state director.

Hudgeons started off the meeting by defining UFO. "It means unidentified flying object," he said. "It does not mean spaceship from outer space."

Indeed, the group does not pretend to have a handle on alien technology, said Robert Powell, a director of research for MUFON who came from Austin to help the investigation.

The trick of such an investigation is to weed out the nuts and the folks who saw sights easily explained with an airplane flight schedule. The rest are occurrences that might just turn out to be unexplainable, he said.

"You want to get down to the real cases," said Powell, a real estate broker.

For Powell, the aluminum-covered heads in the room lacked a certain respect for the field. He said he got into it to study the phenomenon scientifically.

"It's an unknown that has the potential to be solved," Powell said.

MUFON's conclusions will not be ready for months, if not a year, Cherry said. They will likely be published first in the group's newsletter.

If Huse was sticking to the facts Saturday, Sean Kiel had a theory.

Kiel, 42, said he saw a bright ball of light passing across the sky at dusk on Jan. 8. He was somewhere between Weatherford and Cisco, driving his regular trucking route. A resident of New Haven, Ky., Kiel came to Dublin for the meeting with photos of the light saved on his cell phone.

He doesn't know for sure, but he believes the photos show some kind of military aircraft.

Of course, that doesn't mean it wasn't a UFO in one sense of the phrase.

"It was a UFO," he said. "I couldn't identify it."

tara.dooley@chron.com

[txrangerette]

I’m lookin’ at this slightly differently from most, I guess, being a native Texan and having spent a lifetime traveling the state.

I just find it a bit un-UFO-like that this “craft” or whatever it was picks between Dublin and Stephenville, TX to show itself so plainly. I know, I know, a guy who was traveling on I-20 in a different location but within the general area also saw something that sounds like the same thing, nevertheless...

Of all places, why THAT one. Why not upstate NY or well, you name it, any other place. That area has a few people but not that many, and it’s a place the vast majority of people everywhere have never even heard of. Myself, lots of times I’ve shopped in Stephenville and eaten DQ in both places and it’s just small town Texas SW of the Metroplex.

This might not compute with some of you, after all, UFOs have to be SOMEWHERE, why not there??

I just have a hard time figuring why they picked that area, that’s all.

I guess I’m not sold it was some kind of phenomenon but rather possibly an experimental craft that belongs to US, the good guys...in which case that area might make sense if we knew where its point of origin was...

[Thermalseeker]

Though I’m more concerned about how such things get inside human beings.

In this case, had he not seen it, it would have been ingested orally.....

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Quix]

With a short . . . errrr . . . “shelf” life. LOL.

[Quix]

Thanks.

[Quix]

Some gleanings from ATS:

POLICE OFFICER RECORDS UFO:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329641/pg1

(ATS THREAD)

SOURCE LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUUZs2YLKw&eurl=http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329641/pg1

Very interesting video. And yet again . . . I have the increased feeling that all such is going to become a LOT more common a lot sooner than a lot of folks have any idea of.

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What is this? A sighting near Area 51:

ATS THREAD:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread330329/pg1

you tube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Uibqf0vtA&eurl=http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread330329/pg1

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Secret KGB UFO files

ATS THREAD:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread185287/pg1

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Incredible UFO video from India:

ATS THREAD;

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329981/pg1

source link:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329981/pg1

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Former Belgian PM Praises NWO:

ATS THREAD:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread330032/pg1

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Asteroid has NASA concerned. . . . 28JAN08 UPDATE

ATS THREAD:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread328087/pg1

NASA LINK:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2007%20TU24;orb=1

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Top Secret US Military Space Program—Is The Future Already Here?

ATS THREAD:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329997/pg1

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DAT’S ALL FOLKS.

[Quix]

UFO PING LIST PING . . .

to ATS gleanings . . . some interesting videos . . . I liked the cop one.

Please let Las Vegas Dave and I know if you want on or off the lsit.

Blessings,

[i_dont_chat]

I remember Betty and Barney Hill VERY well. It was the incident which first got my attention.

[potlatch]

way out there

[potlatch]

Thank you for the ping Quix. Hope all is well with you.

[mtbopfuyn]

Theory has it there are more stars in the Universe then there are grains of sand on every beach on this Planet. Assuming at least some of the stars have planets the number possible locations for sentient life forms is unimaginable. To unquestioningly believe we are the sole inhabitants of the universe is hubris beyond comprehension.

Exactly.

[devolve]

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LOL!

Great graphics/post potlatch!

[potlatch]

Yeah, I’ll bet YOU like it!!

[devolve]

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Super design and colors!

[potlatch]

Obviously you haven’t checked the code yet, or else you are being devious on purpose, lol!!

Which is it, huh, huh??

[GOPJ]

Wasn’t there some kind of experimental flying platform that used helicopters...

[devolve]

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I cannot “see” the URLs like you can!

[potlatch]

I’m sorry devolve! I found it easy now to click on the reply button and on that page I am able to ‘view source’ easier as there isn’t much on it.

That’s how I quickly get code for things.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

[Quix]

Thanks much.

Doing tolerably.

Somewhat laying low and Praying through some junky stuff on the rel forum but doing OK by God’s grace at teaching and pottery . . . though a big bunch of my pots in the last cone 6 firing came out yucky because of a badly mixed glaze that the master potter made up. So, those are now cooling a 2nd time—this time in a cone 10 firing. Wheeee.

Anyway—is it your sense that the UFO stuff has been seadily increasing the last year or so? Sure seems like it, to me.

Blessings,