Posted on 01/20/2008 2:54:17 AM PST by BnBlFlag
Houston & Texas News
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
Dogs turn out to be interesting puzzle pieces in all this all on their own.
There are reports of . . .
—dogs being hyper sensitive and averse to all such.
—occasionally, dogs being very aggressive but not going closer than a certain point . . .
—dogs being frozen in mid aggressive attack . . . IIRC, one dog jumping, being frozen in mid jump and falling to the ground frozen until after the phenomenon had departd . . .
—dogs being lasered in half . . .
I forget the other such . . . seems like another couple or 3 interesting happenings.
The educationally deprived really would do better to read the whole Bible someday . . . Revelation is looming closer and closer.
This dog would sit and watch, maybe beg a biscuit from them. Previous dog would offer then a biscuit.
It doesn't look as if it can be proven one way or another at the moment, true (although when I was recently on jury duty, the judge advised us that guilt can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt on witness testimony alone).
As for proceeding as if we were alone, I agree insofar as thinking for ourselves and taking care of ourselves is the correct approach. OTOH, if there are alien civilizations, there is no way to know that they'll even understand us or care about us anymore than we care about insects...their becoming aware of us might not be beneficial. I vote for keeping a low profile.
We would have to anyway since we are not capable of making much of an impression at this time. Land on Mars? As if anybody would care even if they did notice.
LOL.
The most frequent dog responses seem to be . . .
—alert then
—whining, whimpering, pacing but a good distance from the phenomena.
—many go and hide as in under the porch or some such.
—Most animals will not go near where a craft has landed; nor a mutilated cow etc. usually for many, many months or longer.
Sure it is and once again you have assumed because I said there is a difference there is only one. Yet more arrogance on your part.
My personal favorite regarding Fermi’s Paradox is that if there are civilizations out there, not only do they not want to be contacted, they can’t understand why any other civilization would.
Nice guys don’t get to be top dog. Any species that manages to climb it’s way to the top of a planet’s food change and then develop a technological civilization capable of space travel is going to be aggressive, smart and potentially hostile.
That being the case, the intelligent thing to do would be listen and see if you could spot them, but do everything you could to keep them from spotting you.
To quote the man with the Towel: “In an infinite universe, anything is possible.” :^)
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations?
I guess that means that somewhere, somewhen a gay bull elephant is being pleasured by a transgendered chihuahua...
Is the answer still 42?
Yep. Broadcasting signals into space trolling for response seems like a stupid thing to do. Do we think that rules of predator and prey are exclusive to us?
Agreed. Stealth is a good thing to master.
As far as I know! ;^)
Yeah, that seems to be a theme of these sorts of sightings. We were on a two lane road in the high desert. There was no reason to not pull over and stop to take pictures. We took something like 2000 pictures on that trip, too.
My neighbor had a strange thing happen to him, too. Not sure of the origin, but he found a small bit of a metallic substance inside a banana. It looks like a piece of mylar foil like Christmas tree tinsel or something. He was about to head out to work one day and decided to fang down a banana before he left. He peeled it and for some reason unbeknownst to him, he turned it to look at the other side. That was when he realized there was this fleck of silver on the banana. He fished it off the bananna and put it on the counter. That's when it got weird. This thing has a charge. It scoots away from you when you try to pick it up. His wife is a machinist/metallurgist down at TVA's Nuke plant "Sequoyah." She took it into their shop where they have a microscope. This thing has etchings on it like a printed circuit board. It also has some "memory" to it that causes it to retain it's shape after it's been wadded up. He still has it in a small specimen jar. If you put your finger on the jar, it tries to scoot away inside the jar. Strange stuff.....
Speaking of the man with the towel, I read all those books over Christmas. They were funny at times, and even eloquent occasionally, but I have to admit that it was a letdown when everyone got killed at the end of the last book. All over again.
I do understand that VHF signals are actually not able to penetrate very far into space, which is a very good thing IMO.
sounds like some of the implants that move away from the surgeon’s scapel about to remove them . . . under their own power.
Maybe that's why I have those giant mutated lemons.
The strange part about this thing, and what has us all really puzzled, other than the charge it holds, and the etchings and the apparent "memory", is how the hell did it get inside the banana peel?
That would be a puzzle, for sure, imho.
Though I’m more concerned about how such things get inside human beings.
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