Posted on 01/24/2008 8:40:09 AM PST by mnehring
FORT WORTH — So much for aliens in Texas dairy country.
At least that's what the military said today, reporting that 10 F-16 fighter jets were training in the Stephenville area the night dozens of residents reported seeing a UFO.
Although Air Force Reserve officials at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth initially said none of their planes were in the area Jan. 8, they said today that they had made a mistake and wanted to set the record straight "in the interest of public awareness."
Some residents aren't buying it, though, saying the military's revelation actually bolsters their claims because several reported seeing at least two fighter jets chasing an object.
"This supports our story that there was UFO activity in that area," said Kenneth Cherry, the Texas director of the Mutual UFO Network, which took more than 50 reports from locals at a meeting last weekend. "I find it curious that it took them two weeks to 'fess up. I think they're feeling the heat from the publicity."
From well-respected business owners to a county constable, several dozen people swear that what they saw was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object's lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane.
"I guarantee that what we saw was not a civilian aircraft," Steve Allen, a pilot and freight company owner, said today.
Allen said that the planes' training area in the Brownwood Military Operating Area that includes Stephenville's Erath County does not include the airspace where he saw the object. Also, Jan. 8 was not the only day sightings were reported.
Anne Frazor, who owns a fabric store in Stephenville, about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, said many in town have seen military aircraft zoom overhead from time to time as part of training operations. But she said that is different than what she saw Jan. 8.
"I couldn't begin to say what it was, but to me it wasn't planes," Frazor said.
Since the reported sightings two weeks ago, the 17,000-resident town has had some fun with the international publicity. Some high-schoolers made T-shirts that read "Stephenville: the new Roswell" on the front and "They're here for the milk!" on the back. A picture features flying saucer beaming up a cow.
This week Tarleton State University is even hosting a lecture by a UFO researcher on the U.S. government's secret response to UFOs, based on previously classified documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The U.S. Air Force says it has not investigated UFO sightings since 1969 when it ended Project Blue Book, which examined more than 12,600 reported UFO sightings — including 700 that were never explained. That program started a few months after the 1947 crash near Roswell, N.M., which the government said it was a top-secret weather balloon but others involved later said was an alien spacecraft.
"What we want is the government to admit there are UFOs and what they know about them," Cherry said.
Can you give any reports from folks you know well?
Videos do not impress me when they are dark, far away and a 1.2-1.4MP camera phone is being used.
I am glad they are being provided by all who see lights and things, but until we have 3.0 - 5.0 MP cameras (Verizon Wireless just came out with a 3.0MP camera phone) there will be little more than specks of light. Hope is coming along with the technology, since I work within the realm that covers digital phones and cameras, I feel that better and better vids will be forthcoming as the technology is disseminated.
Until then, keep looking up in our big, wonderful Texas sky.
INBN
HERE’S SOME UPDATED ARTICLE LINKS ON THE STEPHENVILLE STORY AND THE HARRASSMENT OF A MAJOR WITNESS:
ATS THREAD:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread332180/pg7
AM CHRONICLE STORY ABOUT HARRASSMENT OF R SORRELS
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51650
ATTEMPT TO SILENCE JOURNALIST WHO INTERVIEWED RS:
RESIGNED HER JOB AFTER PRESSURE
http://www.ufo-blog.com/ufo-blog/2008/02/stephenville-texas-ufo-empire-tribune.html
NUFORC:
SECOND AM CHRONICLE ARTICLE 9TH
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51832
Notice that 5.1 20miles south of Mexicali last night? Only got posted on USGS late today.
They claimed it was parachute flares because it was parachute flares.
Interesting. Missed that.
Wonder why the delay in posting.
Curious.
Any speculations?
A true flying alien craft wouldn’t advertise itself by using weird configurations of running lights...though I could see them using some type landing lights or headlights for running low to the ground or landing.
During PART of the sighting.
Pilots saw the VERY LARGE CRAFT at a different time than when whe flares were out.
DO THE HOMEWORK BEFORE pontificating so adamently!
One IIRC former military pilot asserted there was enough room on the SOLID CRAFT TO LAND his commercial jet. IIRC, he was looking down on the craft.
BTW, I have friends and relatives in Phoenix . . . No way I’ll accept the whole thing was flares.
Flares came out afterwards as a disinformation stunt imho.
That’s only because gas giants are massive enough to cause observable wobbles that our limited optics can observe. I think we’ll find a predictable pattern where gas giants exist in outer orbits with more rocky oxygen/nitrogen planets in the inner orbits.
You’re a bit of an oddball, aren’t you!
He sounds like a real nut.
If its a secret military craft..I DON”T need to know it...but I want a bunch of Jihadists and possibly Chinese hegemonists to taste its power!
That’s not new information.
Also has nothing to do with my IQ.
Also has nothing to do with my rather well trained and practiced capacity to screen massive amounts of information for puzzle pieces of worth to keep.
If anything, being atypical helps minimize narrow biases that blind average folks from TYPE II ERROR hazards.
I’d guess that TYPE II ERROR hazards bite quite a lot of such folks in the butt when they can least afford it.
Maybe you’ve seen the links for updates on such above.
Love your homepage quotes.
For those that have never experienced a sighting there is nothing you can say or do to convince them that they exist. For those of us who have experinced them it is very hard to try and explain them away when we know in our heart what we saw. I think of the Cash incident here in Huffman,the physical evidence produced and still the government denies it happened or tries to belittle and itimidate the victims.
Of course you are QUITE CORRECT.
The psychology and sociology of it all can be fascinating on occasion . . .
and disgusting on others.
Probably just outside the bounds of the USGS system of seismometers. Probably a manually placed event into their database, not automated.
Interesting.
I’d have thought no spot was outside the bounds of their instruments.
They can pinpoint quakes in Siberia, Greenland, mid-ocean . . . quickly and reasonably accurately by various triangulations, IIRC.
Interesting.
Thanks.
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