Posted on 01/17/2009 1:52:28 PM PST by JoeProBono
CHAMA, NM - Several meandering V-shaped UFOs near a mountain slope here turned up on a woman's digital photos. Three photos shot with a 21 megapixel camera caught multiple crafts approaching in the first frame, one craft in frame two moving close to the ground while the others take positions in the sky, and then frame three shows all of the crafts moving out of the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
from:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1506&category=Environment
Erath County, Texas, Policeman Saw 600-Foot-Diameter
Aerial Craft Over Stephenville Court House
© 2008 by Linda Moulton Howe
“I’m looking directly at this craft and it starts pivoting upward at a 35 to 40 degree angle off the left ‘wingtip.’ It rises there for about three seconds and then it goes completely 90 degrees and starts moving away from me, all without sound!” - “Greg,” Erath County Police Officer
Graphic illustration at the link from info from 3 police officers. The illustration is quite good, imho. I think it must capture the craft very well.
I realize, of course, that logic in such matter is of absolutely no use to the thread’s resident naysayers.
Obviously, since none of the police officers proved that they were God Almighty, mysterio, yazoo, and JoJo are totally unwilling to accept a microgram of evidence from their reports and generally are, as usual, committed to considering the 3 police officers to be clueless idiots; low IQ schizophrenics and/or little better than slugs from the gutter in terms of usefulness to the discussion of the topic.
/sar
More excerpts from the above link:
Lee Roy Gaitan had watched from his Dublin, Texas, home as a disc-shaped object was spinning and as Lee Roy put it, throwing off different colors in the sky. But the most dramatic incidents he described were the close-up encounters of three fellow police officers from Erath County between 7 to 7:30 PM, on January 8, 2008. That was the first well-publicized night that made national and international news after three dozen people reported spinning lights, lights jumping around and even aerial craft seeming to change shapes, morphing in the sky.
Lee Roy told me that none of the Erath County police officers would speak on the record because each was afraid of losing his job, or public ridicule, or both. Lee Roy told me he had also heard that “someone” in military authority wanted to see a dash cam video that the Sheriff was holding from one of the officer’s patrol cars. But when Stephenville reporter, Angelia Joiner, finally was given a copy of the alleged dash cam video by the Erath County Sheriff’s office, the tape did not show the dramatic events described by the officers. So far no answers to speculation that the original videotape was suppressed.
Now, for the first time, I have been able to interview one of those police officers. He still wants to withhold his name to protect his identity and asked me to call him “Greg” for my news report. Here now is Erath County police officer, Greg, describing what he saw with his own eyes in downtown Stephenville, Texas, between 7 PM and 7:30 PM on January 8, 2008.
Interview:
Police Officer “Greg,” Erath County, Stephenville, Texas: “It was January 8, 2008. I had just come on duty. I work a 12-hour shift from 7 PM to 7 AM. I was driving towards the east on South Loop, which is a loop that loops around the city of Stephenville. I was starting to crest the top of a railroad overpass. As I got to the top of that overpass, it’s raised quite a bit. I can see half the way across town from atop the overpass. I was looking to my left towards downtown and the Erath County Courthouse (100 W. Washington). And I saw a large, rectangular, black object, just slowly moving towards the Courthouse. I saw it for maybe three to four seconds.
Then I went down the crest of the hill and I thought to myself that it was a rather large aircraft of some kind. I’ve never seen anything that low moving that slow. It concerned me for a minute. I thought that maybe we have a commercial airliner trying to land at our little airport that can’t support that (an aerial craft so large). So, I went further down the South Loop and got to about Lillian Street and looked towards the Courthouse again. I had a pretty good view. It’s winter. It’s January. There was no foliage on the trees and I saw this large craft hovering above the Courthouse about 200 feet above the ground.
More at the link above.
Addictional excerpts from above Linda Moulton Howe’s site link.
Below this excerpt they show the illustration as they saw the craft pivoted on it’s right edge vertically.
HOW HIGH DO YOU THINK THIS CRAFT WAS ABOVE YOU?
Above me, I would say 200 feet.
SO VERY CLOSE.
And distance away from me, I would say a quarter-mile or less.
LOW, A QUARTER-MILE AWAY. YOU ARE JUDGING THIS ENORMOUS SIZE OF 600 FEET IN DIAMETER AND 35-FOOT-DIAMETER HEADLIGHTS COMPARED TO WHAT AROUND YOU GAVE YOU THAT JUDGMENT?
The Courthouse itself and the area where it was – I could go back and walk block for block and get a good measurement of the size of the thing. To me, it looked like you could put four or five commercial aircraft wingtip-to-wingtip across the front of it. It was that large!
AT THAT POINT, IS IT COMPLETELY STATIONARY?
Yes, not moving. I reached over and grabbed my camera. I swiveled the head around and looked in my viewfinder. All I got was washout on the windshield and also the bracing on the window from the hood down to the dashboard was right in the way. I was in the left hand lane, so I couldn’t stop. There were cars behind me and beside me. I really wanted to stop and turn my car towards it and film it, but I couldn’t. It was too dangerous for me to do that.
So, I proceeded up to Graham Street and made a left. At Graham Street, when I turned, I’m looking directly at this craft and it starts pivoting upward at a 35 to 40 degree angle off the left ‘wingtip.’ It rises there for about three seconds and then it goes completely 90 degrees and starts moving away from me, all without sound!
IF I UNDERSTAND, YOU ARE SAYING THE HUGE AERIAL CRAFT PIVOTED FROM ONE WINGTIP UP 45 DEGREES AND THEN A FULL 90 DEGREES WITHOUT THE WINGTIP POSITION MOVING?
600-foot-diameter, silent craft pivoted on left “wingtip”
from horizontal to vertical position over Erath County Courthouse
in Stephenville, Texas, between 7 PM to 7:30 PM Central, January 8, 2008.
Computer graphic illustration based on eyewitness testimony
of three Erath County police officers.
INCREDIBLE!
Yes! (laughs) And at this point, another light comes on in the center of the craft. So now you have instead of the two headlights, you have three identical lights. Then the craft starts pulling away. I reach up and grab my radar, swivel it up into the sky, turned it on and I got a hit. It showed 27 mph and accelerating. It got to about 33 mph and I lost my lock, which meant it was moving so far away I can’t get a good lock on it anymore. At this point, it accelerated very fast. It went all the way across town within two to three seconds. Then it veered to the left in the 90-degree angle, it just veered a little to the left and kept going. It got out of range where I could not see it anymore.
At this point, I grabbed my mike and started to call it in and then I realized, ‘How is this going to sound on the radio?’ I’m basically a new officer. I haven’t even worked there a year. I’m still on probation and I didn’t know how my supervisors were going to take it. I knew I was not the only one who saw it. There were people in front of me; there were people behind me. I knew other people had to have seen it. So, I just put the mike back down and didn’t call it in.
Later that evening, we met with some other officers in the area and I asked them if they saw this large craft lumbering around town. One of the officers said, ‘No, I didn’t, but Officer Leeroy Gaitan saw something in Gaitan.’
So, that’s when I got hold of Constable Gaitan and we started talking about it. About a week later, I was at work and one of the officers said, ‘Hey, I know you saw something.’
I said, ‘Yeah, I did.’
He said, ‘Well, there are two other officers here who saw it, too.’ So he got me in touch with them and we all met and decided to do our own little investigation. One of the officers was at his house when he witnessed it. The other officer was going home from work. He gets off at 7 PM. He drove directly beneath it and it was about 200 feet off the ground to the south of Stephenville out in the county on a farm on Market Road.
Obviously, since the resident naysayers have not reported a shred of a PhD in psychology to their credit, we are expected to TRUST, ACCEPT ON FAITH VERY BLINDLY AND OTHERWISE BOW LOW to their brilliant, erudite, omniscient categorizing of the 3 police officers as blind-as-a-bat-psychotic idiots reporting on an excess of swamp gas embellished by a herd of cows from the local dairy farm.
Also, our extinguished college of erudite PhD level naysayers castigate the 3 police officers with tons of humiliation because the 3 police officers failed to
1. get a Vulcan mind meld on the drivers of the UFO;
2. haul out their pocket TRANSMORGIFIERS lent to the Police department by Calvin & Hobbes;
3. shrink the 600 foot craft into a tidy ping-pong ball sized module;
4. slip it into their pockets and immediately take it to FED-EX to overnight it to JoJo with certified notarized 3-D holographic images overnighted to yazoo and mysterio.
I gather our resident naysayers are quite indignantly considering trying to fine the police officers $10,000 apiece and lock them up for a month for being so terminally stupid as to fail to manage points 1-4 above. They want to discourage such disasterously horrific stupidity in any other police officers assaulted by false UFO images.
/sar
Additional excerpts from the above link.
Note, there’s another illustration of the craft as seen FROM ABOVE THE CRAFT by one police officer who lived on a ridge above the valley where the craft was hovering. That illustration is at the same link:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1506&category=Environment
He said, ‘Well, there are two other officers here who saw it, too.’ So he got me in touch with them and we all met and decided to do our own little investigation. One of the officers was at his house when he witnessed it. The other officer was going home from work. He gets off at 7 PM. He drove directly beneath it and it was about 200 feet off the ground to the south of Stephenville out in the county on a farm on Market Road.
The other officer was at home and was in his backyard. He lives up on a ridge. He said the craft was lower than him and down in a valley and it started going up a ridge across from him.
600-foot-diameter craft seen from above by police officer at his ridge top Stephenville, Texas, home.
Craft was slowly, silently moving in valley below between 7 PM to 7:30 PM Central, January 8, 2008.
Computer graphic illustration of craft from above based on police officer’s description.
On top of this ridge was a telephone pole and underneath the telephone pole was a pickup truck with its headlights on. As the craft went up the ridge, almost hitting the phone pole. He said the craft just barely cleared it. The big craft went directly over that pickup. We’ve yet to find out who that is, by the way! (laughs) But they had one fantastic view of this craft. That officer saw the top of it and that’s where we got the drawing for the top of the craft.
The other officer drove beneath it and that’s where he got the color and what it looked like from underneath in the profile illustration.
The officer at his house said he did see what looked to him to be observation windows on the side of the big January 8, 2008, craft (in computer illustration). The officer who drove underneath the huge craft said where I told you it had the two big headlights, he said there were two of those on each side.
When I first saw it, it was blacked out. It had some kind of cloaking capability. It was so blacked out that it was darker than the sky around it and gave just a little bit of a silhouette. Also, when I saw the craft, it had two towers on top about 30 to 40 feet tall. The towers had strobe lights on top of them. The towers sporadically strobed.
And there were three towers underneath the craft hanging down 30 to 40 feet tall. And they strobed white. Now when I first saw this, the towers were strobing sporadically. Then after a minute, they completely stopped strobing and the only thing you could see was on the very far wingtips, left and right, were two little, steady red lights and in between the big, massive head lights.
When it left, you could still see a silhouette as it was leaving in the distance, blacked out more or less.
COULD YOU OR THE OTHER TWO OFFICERS HEAR ANYTHING FROM THIS HUGE CRAFT?
We heard no noise. I rolled down my car window and I didn’t hear any noise. Of course, I had highway noise around me, but I heard no jet engines, no roar of an airplane engine, nothing like that.
OF COURSE, Our PhD naysayers insist that we must realize that the police officer viewing the craft from his home on the ridge above the craft
just 100%
HAD
to be
suffering from PSYCHOTIC-BIRD’S-EYE-VIEW-OSIS—no doubt generated by spending too many night hours dreaming and all gah-gah enraptured about swamp gas clouds and cow farts.
/sar
Another interesting narrative from the above link:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1506&category=Environment
I was called by an hysterical couple that the craft was following. It tracked along beside them at 70 mph and then pulled in front of their pickup nose down into the road way, just 75 feet off the ground. The female said the bottom of the craft looked silver metallic. She said the spotlight coming off it was so bright she could only see the bottom of the craft. They were so awe-struck and thought it was going to land and they stopped right in the road way and just looked at it. The couple said as it nosed down, it flipped around to the other side of the road.
TILTING UP ON ONE TIP AND FLIPPING OVER THE HIGHWAY?
Yes. The craft then put a spotlight of some kind, a bright light, on the vehicle traveling in front of the couple, which was a couple hundred yards away. That vehicle did not stop. That car continued down the road. So, the couple did not know if that car knew it was being illuminated or whoever was driving just wanted to get out of there! (laughs)
The craft then left and went away. The couple called me and were hysterical talking on the phone. I had to ask them to calm down and tell me what they saw. They did and explained they went back to a convenience store at 281 and South Loop in Stephenville, pulled into the drive and got out of their vehicle. A man also pulls into the drive and gets out of his vehicle and said, ‘Can I ask you a question? I’m a private pilot and I just landed at the airport. Did you see something rather large flying through the sky?’
The couple answered, ‘Yes, we did!’ And he said, ‘Well, I did, too!’
They then got back in their pickup and left again to see if they could see it. As they went north toward Granbury, Texas on Highway 377, a couple miles north of Stephenville, the couple sees the lighted craft again. It crosses the road behind them. It stops completely in the air and goes back the other direction within a matter of seconds. The way this thing was flying – you know, there’s nothing we have that can stop and go backwards like that.
Obviously, folks, we know from our PhD naysayers’ panel of galactic class experts that
the couple in the car
HAD
to have been practicing their psychotic hysterical states at the best acting schools in Hollyweed for at least the last 3 years in order to pull off such a convincing hoax.
/sar
More excerpts from:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1506&category=Environment
Cloaking Versus Aggression
That craft I saw in January 2008 had some kind of camouflage cloaking capability. There was one man who I think said he was in downtown Stephenville at the time I was watching and thought he could see through it. Or maybe like it was projecting the sky beneath it?
WHAT WOULD BE 600 FEET IN DIAMETER IN THE SKY, FIRST TRYING TO CLOAK ITSELF IN DARKNESS. THEN ALMOST DEMONSTRATING FOR YOU AND THE TWO OTHER POLICE OFFICERS ITS EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY TO PIVOT ON ONE ‘WINGTIP’ UP 90 DEGREES WITHOUT SOUND.
I don’t think it was trying to hide that much. I think it did want to be seen. The November object seemed more aggressive and was smaller and differently shaped than the January craft.
Speculations About Source of Craft
HAVE YOU HAD ANY MEETING WITH AUTHORITIES ABOUT WHY THE THESE CRAFT HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON THE STEPHENVILLE REGION?
We’ve all wondered why it’s occurring around here. A lot of the officers think it’s some kind of military craft.
BUT, GREG, HOW DO YOU GET TO OUR MILITARY FROM SOMETHING THAT IS 600 FEET IN DIAMETER, COMPLETELY SILENT, CAN STOP AND HOLD ITS POSITION IN THE AIR, CHANGE ITS HORIZONTAL POSITION RAPIDLY TO VERTICAL AND MAKE NO SOUND?
I don’t see how that is possible. The officer who was in his back yard at home at the time on January 8, 2008, he is retired U. S. Air Force and he was adamant it is not USAF.
WHAT RUNS THROUGH YOUR MIND ABOUT WHAT ELSE IT COULD BE?
I’m just speculating, but it could be an unmanned probe. It could be from the future. It could be alien in nature.
IF IT WERE A PROBE, IT WOULD BE FROM WHERE?
Not from this planet! I think it’s an extraordinary world event. I think since we’ve had two sightings within a year that I know of that it’s almost like it’s building up to something. Like there is something even bigger coming, maybe even contact.”
If anyone has more information about the January and November 2008 craft sightings in the Stephenville, Texas, region - or other aerial phenomena elsewhere in the United States and world, please email: earthfiles@earthfiles.com. All confidentiality requests are honored.
Quite a little collection of observers. Interesting about the sort of ‘see through it’ quality.
OH DEAR! JoJo, better rush him to a Top Secret cleared therapist immediately. Can't have retired Air Force psychotics running around loose spouting off about UFO's now, can we!
/sar
What a character.
Great find.
LOL.
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Star Field Camouflage On Large V-Shaped Craft
Near Cape Canaveral, Florida?
© 2008 by Linda Moulton Howe
“When we stopped our car, the huge V-shaped aircraft stopped, too,
and then turned from the direction it was going – which was to the west –
it turned back and was facing towards the east looking right at us.”
- Robert Howe, Merritt Island, Florida
Large V-shaped aircraft, longer than a football field and an
estimated two stories high, on Plumosa Street by the Indian River
west of Cape Canaveral, Florida, around 12:30 AM Eastern on
August 16, 1987. Computer illustration © 2009 by Paul Kirsch.
January 8, 2009 Merritt Island, Florida - Two decades ago on the warm summer evening of August 16, 1987, eighteen-year-old Robert “Bobby” Howe [no relation to this reporter] and two of his friends had driven from their Merritt Island, Florida, home out to the Cherie Down Park beach near Cape Canaveral, home of the space shuttle launches. Some time between 9 PM and 10 PM, the brother, sister and Bobby noticed what looked like two bright car lights at the shoreline underneath the water. Their first thought was deep sea divers. The lights were there for about a half-hour and then were gone. But up in the sky, Bobby and his friends saw a giant V-shaped aircraft above them. Bobby estimates the length of the craft was longer than a football field, which is longer than 300 feet.
Then the huge aircraft moved into a cloud. The teenagers waited for at least an hour, but the V-shaped craft did not come out of the cloud. So, the three friends decided to drive back to Merritt Island where they lived, which is over the Banana River by a bridge from Cape Canaveral. As Bobby and his friends drove toward the bridge, they suddenly saw four stars in a straight line on the horizon. At the bridge, the lights moved over their car and the three realized it was the V-shaped aircraft again.
As their car moved over the bridge onto Merritt Island, the three realized that the V-shaped craft seemed to be pacing them, or leading them, and they followed the aircraft in the sky through the island as far as they could go to the other side where the road they were on stopped on Plumosa Street at the Indian River west of Cape Canaveral. At that stop sign, the V-craft turned 180 degrees around from traveling west and pointed east facing Bobby and his friends in the car for nearly a half-hour.
Then the V-shaped aircraft turned toward the south and passed the Merritt Square Mall at the Banana River headed in the direction of Patrick Air Force Base between Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach. The time by then was 1 AM Eastern. At least three hours had elapsed from the first sighting of the underwater lights that the three teenagers associated with the appearance of the V-shaped craft, their waiting for the craft to emerge from a cloud, then the craft following them through Merritt Island and finally moving off towards Patrick AFB - all with no sound.
. . .
. . .
. . .
WHERE DID IT LIFT UP?
Near Jetty Park near Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Station.
SO RIGHT OFF KENNEDY WHERE THE SHUTTLE IS LAUNCHED?
Right. There’s a port there called Port Canaveral where the cruise ships come in.
YOU SAW THE ANOMALOUS LIGHTS COME UP OUT OF THE WATER NEAR KENNEDY. THEN THEY DISAPPEARED IN A CLOUD. YOU WATCHED THAT CLOUD FOR AN HOUR. NOTHING CAME OUT.
Right.
YOU START DRIVING HOME TO MERRITT ISLAND. THE DISTANCE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL TO YOUR HOME IS HOW FAR?
Maybe about ten miles. As we’re coming up over the bridge that connects Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island, we noticed in the horizon to the west it looked like four stars in a constellation. I had never seen that before and as we drove towards the ‘constellation,’ it came up over the car. It was the same V-craft.
. . .
V-Craft Hovered Silently for Half-Hour
and Headed South Toward Patrick AFB
. . .
DO YOU TODAY IN JANUARY 2009 STILL THINK IT WAS A MILITARY CRAFT?
No.
WHAT HAS CHANGED?
When the Phoenix lights story was on CNN, earlier that evening people had witnessed a giant V-craft. That’s when it came to my attention again and it kind of verified to my family and friends who did not believe us that that is what we had seen in 1987.
SINCE 1987, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING THAT WAS V-SHAPED AND SEEMED TO BE TRANSLUCENT, OR CAMOUFLAGED BY STARS, FLYING IN THE FLORIDA SKIES?
No, I have never seen anything like that ever again.
WHAT IS AMAZING TO ME IS THAT IN THAT VERY POPULATED AREA IN AUGUST THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE BETWEEN 10 PM AND 1 AM.
. . .
. . .
BECAUSE IT’S SO SILENT.
Right.
AND STEALTHY.
Right, stealthy with no noise even as it travels away. No swishing noise, no nothing.
IT’S A GREAT CAMOUFLAGE IF IT IS SOLID AND USING SOME TECHNOLOGY METHOD TO CAMOUFLAGE ITSELF AS A STARRY NIGHT.
Right.
IT MIGHT HAVE APPEARED TO THE THREE OF YOU AS TRANSLUCENT.
Right, that’s what I’m thinking now. It almost had like a cloaking device kind of thing to it.
IT WAS A SOLID OBJECT USING A STAR FIELD AS CAMOUFLAGE OVER ITS SOLIDITY.
Right.
YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT.
Right, like an optical illusion. I figured by now I would have seen something on TV about it being a secret government project. In 1987, I know we didn’t have anything that advanced. The stealth was not even out at that time. So, I have yet to this day to see anything like that.
. . .
map of route of craft etc. is at the link.
Illustrations also at the link.
Here’s the deal folks, go and learn what this means:
If our world was two dimensional and a three dimensional being was moving in it, what would you see? Well, suppose this being stuck his index finger into our world, the being trapped in a two dimensional world would see merely a circle, moving about.
I think those illustrations are always so apt and fitting.
Thanks.
WOW.
Magnanimity along with expertise on swamp gas and so called ‘mass hallucinations.’
What a guy!
Holy Mother of God!
You’ve been in a posting frenzy, all links being to crap from Howe, who was a regular guest of Art Bell?!?
No doubt you’ll want to be taken seriously.
Doesn’t matter about me.
The data is significant enough to stand on it’s own.
[that is, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear]
It is a bit shocking to realize that folks as bright as you block off and flush whole huge categories of data that COULD potentially protect from some highly probable hazards.
Ah wellll . . . willful blindness must be another THRILL-SEEKER’S addiction.
I’m just a noise wailing in the wilderness. LOL.
I asked why those flying saucers didn't look like tesseracts. Was told it's because they need to be sorta kinda aerodynamic. So what I've learned is that it means that interdimensional proctologists can do anything that the wallflowers who call Art Bell claims. 
BTW, Joya and I have talked with Linda at some length.
She’s a VERY SOLID person.
Particularly in terms of her tenacity and thoroughness at researching a case or topic.
IIRC, she’s won some awards for her documentary film stuff.
I realize that expertise, integrity, thoroughness and professional awards do not impress
PhD naysayers in SwampGas-&-cow-fart-ology.
Who knows how aerodynamic they need to be. Might depend on which of the exotic propulsion systems is being used.
[that is, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear]
Perhaps you didn't hear me the first time. It's all from an Art Bell regular, which gives it as much weight as from Al Gore or James Hansen or some United Nations study.
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