Military now says planes flying in area of UFO reports (Stephenville "UFO")

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.

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.

An interesting puzzle piece . . .

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0824.html

Weekly Column - 08.24.2007

RUSSIA’S UNDENIABLE WAR PREPARATIONS
by J. R. Nyquist

Since 1998 I have publicly warned of Russia’s war preparations. The idea of preparing for nuclear war is absurd for most Americans, because the idea of nuclear war makes no sense in a consumer society. However that may be, Russia’s war preparations were as undeniable then as they are today. And Russia is not a consumer society. In the late 1990s Russia was refurbishing huge nuclear war bunkers and building underground cities. The only purpose such bunkers and cities could serve is in relation to a future nuclear war. For a country that was supposedly broke to be spending its precious resources on something so expensive, so far out of the way of “normal” expectations, seemed inexplicable. “Oh well,” people would shrug. “The Russians are used to doing this sort of thing. It gives them psychological comfort. Let them do what they want. It needn’t trouble us.” The public missed the fact, however, that Russia was continuing to violate arms control agreements. It was not admitting to all the nuclear warheads it possessed, and was not reliably disposing of them. It was developing new, deadly, biological and chemical weapons.

Why in the midst of peace, a few short years after the end of the Cold War, were the Russians adhering to this insane path? Were they anticipating a future war?

The answer must be yes. And the answer continues to be yes. In the 1990s Russia forged an alliance with China that involved a growing series of joint military exercises. Why would the Russians do this? Why would they seek to develop a joint military capability that would link Russian missile power with Chinese manpower? For over a decade the Russians have been providing the Chinese with technology and weapons. This is not merely a commercial transaction, as some would insist. These transactions are carefully considered strategic steps. Since the mid-1990s, Russia and China have initiated joint-armaments programs that further solidified their military partnership. It is obsolete thinking to suppose Russia and China are enemies. It must be understood, as a practical matter, that Russia and China are underdog powers locked in a struggle for primacy with the United States. The only sensible strategy, if Russia and China expect to emerge on top, is to unite against the Americans. And that is what the two countries have been doing for the past decade.

A week ago today, on August 17, the Russians and Chinese conducted joint military exercises on Russian soil, in the southern Ural Mountains. These coincided with strategic air operations involving Russian nuclear bombers. The combination of ground exercises with nuclear bomber exercises is a characteristic of Soviet nuclear war theory, which holds that troops must be used to follow up nuclear strikes. President Putin and China’s President Hu Jintao watched the exercises while holding a summit in Bishkek (the capital of former Soviet Kyrgyzstan). While China and Russia insist that their preparations aren’t aimed at any specific power, only a simpleton would believe them. (I am sad to acknowledge that many Americans, in this regard, are simpletons.)

Last week, in an obvious upgrading of nuclear war readiness, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the resumption of long-range nuclear bomber patrols that had previously been suspended in 1992. “I made the decision to restore flights of Russian strategic bombers on a permanent basis,” said Putin. “Combat duty has begun.” For some reason, Americans cannot digest Putin’s statement or his decision to resume bomber patrols. Why is this happening? Well, we say to ourselves, there is no reason other than the peculiar psychology of the Russians. President Bush has not put U.S. strategic bombers on patrol. And why should he? Russia isn’t our enemy. We are all friends. We are all economic partners and allies in the war against terror.

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CONTINENTAL AIRLINES MOVES INTO BOMB SHELTER:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003995

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China’s Bomb Shelters article:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51336

My own sources while there affirmed that there are very extensive such.

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Brief note about the Japanese building bunkers:

http://www.1913intel.com/2006/10/27/nervous-japanese-build-nuclear-bunkers/

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Swiss building bunkers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6347519.stm

BBC NEWS ARTICLE. Brief excerpt:

Last Updated: Saturday, 10 February 2007, 11:58 GMT

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Swiss still braced for nuclear war
By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Switzerland

Many historians will agree the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War, but in Switzerland the threat of nuclear war has left an unexpected legacy.

The Sonnenberg tunnel contains the world’s largest nuclear shelter
If you are driving through Switzerland, south to Italy, you are likely to take the route via the charming town of Lucerne and that means driving through the Sonnenberg tunnel.

Those tunnels around Lucerne can be quite irritating, especially in fine weather. Just as you are enjoying a spectacular view of the lake and the mountains, you are plunged into darkness.

But when you get to the Sonnenberg, make sure your eyes adjust, and take a closer look, for this is much more than a tunnel. In here is the world’s largest nuclear shelter.

Under Swiss law, local governments are required to provide shelter spaces for everyone, and in the early 1970s Lucerne was short by several thousand. The new Sonnenberg motorway tunnel, just being built, seemed a neat solution: kit it out as a nuclear shelter as well and it could hold 20,000 people.

The Sonnenberg, in theory, is able to withstand a one megaton nuclear bomb, as close as half a mile away

“Actually we got the idea from you British,” explains Werner Fischer, the local civil protection chief, as he shows me around. “Londoners used the underground as shelter during the blitz.”

Well maybe, but believe me, there are things in the Sonnenberg that you will never find down the Finchley Road tube station.

‘Engineering feat’

It starts with the doors, which are a metre and a half thick (5ft), and weigh 350 tonnes each. The Sonnenberg, in theory, is able to withstand a one megaton nuclear bomb, as close as half a mile away.

The shelter was designed to be self-sufficient
One megaton is 70 Hiroshimas. That means the Sonnenberg residents would have emerged to a world reduced not to smoking rubble, but to ash.

Inside, the tunnel is a surreal monument to neutral Switzerland’s desire to survive a total war which would, naturally, have been started and waged by someone else.

Every eventuality has been thought of.

There are vast sleeping quarters, with bunk beds four layers deep. There is an operating theatre, a command post, and as Mr Fischer points out, a prison. “Just because there’s a nuclear war outside doesn’t mean we won’t have any social problems in here,” he says.

Some of my friends have private ones in their own houses, used, these days, mostly to store wine or skis.

There were even, it is rumoured, plans for a post office, until someone asked the obvious question “when the world outside is burning, who would you write to? What would the address be, not to mention who would deliver your letter?”

Then there are the coloured lights, indicating whether it is night or day outside. Obviously the country which produces the world’s top watches would not like to lose track of time.

There are some truly impressive feats of engineering: the air filters, designed to supply those 20,000 souls with 192 cubic metres each of non-radioactive air every day, are indeed breathtaking. So large, the hall they are housed in has the dimensions of a medieval cathedral.

Shelter choice

But while the Sonnenberg may be the biggest shelter, it is by no means the only one.

Many shelters are now being used a storage spaces
In fact, there are over a quarter of a million of them in Switzerland, because, 17 years after the end of the Cold War, the policy of providing shelters for the entire population still stands.

Some of my friends have private ones in their own houses, used, these days, mostly to store wine or skis. My house, though does not have one.

An anxious telephone call to my local civil protection office brings a reassuring answer. “Actually your community has 40% overcapacity in shelters,” I’m told.

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US BUNKER BUILDERS:

http://www.usbunkers.com/products.php

http://www.hardenedstructures.com/underground.asp

http://www.subsurfacebuildings.com/BargainBunkers.html

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Japanese scientists eye new planet:

http://www.physorg.com/news123406660.html

I think there’s an FR thread on that.

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dats all for now LOL.

LOL.

I was enjoying myself a bit much, I guess. I love ferreting out interesting stories, hypotheses, puzzle pieces . . . And, I have a bias hat given our limited knowledge . . . it’s difficult to ARBITRARILY AHEAD OF TIME decide what is and is not real. Pharoah decided he knew what was real. God showed him otherwise rather dramatically and emphatically.

Besides, I enjoy collecting puzzle pieces. It’s been a hobby for . . . 45+ years. Grew out of my scifi interest.

A FREEPER kindly sent me the following. My reply is below:

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I like the UFO community as much as the next guy, but do you ever read an article like this and go “WT_?” Either this borders on insanity/delusional pyscobabble or we are in deep ______.

How do you rationalize the fact that for 60+ years that entire monolithic cabal has not been leaked, decieved, breached, etc. even when the A-bomb, WWII plans, Iraq invasion plans and every other secret thing has been compromised along the way?

There was not one person who felt a responsibility to humanity, death bed confession, remorse for decieving the entire human civilization? Our government can keep their dicks in their pants long enough to complete a single senatorial term, but they can perpetrate the greatest deception on humankind since Eve in the Garden?

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I’m going to reply in the thread as follows quoting part of your thing anonymously . . .

1. There’s plenty of insane craziness in government, in the NWO, in the UFO field etc. God only knows where the insanity starts and stops and incredible Alice-in-Wonderland convoluted reality starts and stops.

2. Even modern physics is full of Alice’s turf.

3. I really do believe that when the dust settles after Armageddon . . . THE MATRIX, Alice’s rabbit hole and a host of science fiction fantasies will all have turned out to have been

HYPER CONSERVATIVE, MUDANE, DRAB, ANEMIC

compared to the reality the world and the Christians have gone through and/or witnessed.

4. Men’s hearts will fail them for fear as Scripture says because of fearful things but also that a good deal of the fearful things are just sooooooooooooooooooo outside of any conceptualizing . . . that fearsome losing total grip is their ownly recourse.

5. I think some of that is one of the reasons the Oligarchy has kept such a tight grip. Too many clueless folks are too given to going off the deepend with NORMAL reality! LOL.

6. The issue of how can such things be kept secret is a straw dog, to me.

A) Incredible secrets have been kept for a long time. Some WWII secrets are still successfully kept. Stanton Friedman’s website answers that issue well. He cites a thing or two that no hint had escaped about until the last 5-10 years.

B) There have been death bed confessions of the globalist oligarchy and even earlier more dangerous such . . . I read plenty beginning in 1965 in my job as acting Director of the university Special Collections dept.

C) Some folks died for their disclosures. But all such disclosures never saw much light of day except in fringe groups. The Oligarchy has been fairly effective at keeping it out of their heavily controlled main stream media for 50-200 years . . . some say more.

D) That and the fringe groups’ record in earliest and most accurately predicting who Hitler was and what he would do is one reason I bother with them at all. They are an early warning system.

E) Sure sorting out the data from the fly specks is a very difficult job . . . but . . . one collects puzzle pieces and waits on God to highlight this or that . . . waits on sime similar puzzle pieces to collect together from very diverse sources . . . waits to see what is fulfilled when . . . or disproved . . . etc.

7. The world IS in super deep doodoo and heading literally to hell at a faster and faster rate. And satan has convinced the ruling globalist oligarchy that Almighty God is merely another variety of ET that satan and the oligarchy will defeat at Armageddon. Satan knows better but it’s a grand way to take lots of humans with him to hell. He loves that. Loving evil is the only kind of love he has left.

8. I increasingly feel that we reallllllllly have only begun to see dramatic, hard to conceive of things. We ain’t seen nuthin yet compared to what’s coming down the pike. George Lucas et al will turn out to have been unimaginative slackards when reality out does their wildest fantasies.

9. Buckle seat belts and hold tightly to God. Better, sink deep in HIS FIRM GRIP with a heart of loving obedience to His desires and priorities.

10. That’s the most loving, exciting, enduring way to survive and prosper . . . . the most fun . . . and the ONLY way to get out of all this alive—in Eternal LIfe. and that exceedingly abundant.

11. Scripture is clear that man has not conceived of the wonders God has prepared for those who Love Him.

12. Even Arthur C Clark asserted that

The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we CAN imagine. —Sir Arthur C. Clark

Thanks for your kind query.

The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we CAN imagine Sir Arthur C. Clark

Try the following on for size . . . there have been persistent reports of the following sort for decades . . . Note. I did not operationalize all the links. Go to the source to click on the links.

ATS thread:

Here http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/AllNewArticles/Tunnelsandshuttles.htm

INCLUDES REF TO a 1978 LA times article etc RAND CORP . . .

RAND CORP. DOCUMENTS SUPPORTED CREATION OF 14,000 MPH U.S. TUBE-SHUTTLE NETWORK

Many individuals claiming to have seen Reptoids also report that they saw human scientists and/or military personnel present at the scene of their encounter. These experiencer observations indicate that at least one or two rogue or sanctioned intelligence groups are acting in unison with the Reptilian-Humanoid culture.

[QUIX note. Some Bible scholars insist that in the original Hebrew, the snake in the garden and similar refs actually referred to speaking bi-pedal reptoid humanoids. Sometimes I wonder if the Revelation etc mention of 'beasts' refers to some such sort of creatures.]

Since most black budget scientific-military projects are conducted from hidden, subterranean command centers, it makes research sense to cross reference Reptoid sightings with known or suspected secret underground scientific-military installations.

This is why, for many years, the Reptoids Research Center has been promoting public awareness of Reptilian-Humanoid (Reptoid) cryptids, underground tunnels, advanced tunneling technologies, and secret corporate-military underground bases.

Government whistleblowers and retired military personnel have publicly stated that during their employment they observed that our government has a massive network of tunnels, with super velocity trains, linking secret underground bases. (Thomas Castello, the former Dulce Base security officer, reported to an associate that Dulce had a tube-shuttle station linked to several other secret underground bases.)

At first hearing, these statements seem too far-out to be true. We've all seen television shows about tunnels and they always show how expensive, dangerous, and disastrous near-surface tunnel construction can be. So, obviously an undertaking such as constructing a massive, sci-fi-like network of underground tunnels would take too much money and hundreds of years to build! NOT SO, say scientists!

In 1972, Robert M. Salter, lead scientist with the Rand Corporation, announced during an interview with LA Times science writer George Getz, that a high speed system could be built using existing (1972) technologies. He also stated that the system should be built for environmental and economic reasons. What kind of speeds was he talking about? Try 10,000 MPH! (Read this June 11, 1972 LA Times article).

On August 2nd, 1972, Salter wrote Rand document P-4874. The publication was titled, "The Very High Speed Transit [VHST] System." The 17-page report detailed the technologies involved, possible attained speeds, aspects of economic and security benefits, and potential routes. This document reported achievable passenger speeds at 14,000 MPH!

By 1978, this proposal grew in dimension and attracted serious consideration by Continuity of Government officials, intelligence departments and U.S. military command. That February, Robert Salter submitted report number P-6092, titled, "Trans-Planetary Subway Systems: A Burgeoning Capability." This report updated route maps and extrapolated further upon the economic and technical considerations in planning the system.

Even though the National Geographic, History and Sci-Fi channels have programs exposing the underground cities of ancient civilizations (and storage companies), only our imaginations can provide insight into how extensive a national security network of tunnels might be if the Black Operations World (BOW) were given the green light to begin construction.

By using conventional 'rock drilling' Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs), it would take decades to complete. Whereas using the more advanced TBMs, developed by Los Alamos Labs, the construction costs would have been sharply reduced, the time required to build tunnels lessened, and the inherent dangers of loose rock tunneling avoided. (see the actual Los Alamos patents 1, 2, 3).

HAS THE VHST SYSTEM BEEN BUILT?

According to numerous eyewitnesses and former government employees, the system already exists and is currently being used by the Shadow government, their black ops forces, plus favored corporate entities.

WHY ARE WE TRYING TO GENERATE INTEREST IN THESE DOCUMENTS?

There are many reasons, including: If surface humanity were to encounter a serious extraterrestrial threat, natural or alien, it would be better to have relocated transportation systems underground to maintain operations and continuity of the government; the threat of terrorist attacks on the national transportation infrastructure would be minimized; surface CO2 emissions would be greatly reduced.

Can we afford not to make this move?

For further information regarding Robert M Salter Rand documents, click here.

Note: The Reptoids Research Center will not intentionally expose the exact location of secret underground installations. There are rational reasons for secrecy sometimes and we do not want to encourage trespassing or wilderness hikes by unskilled explorers who are looking to verify their suspicions.

Actual patent docs:

HERE: http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/Underground/tbm1page.htm

2ND PATETN DOC:

HERE: http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/Underground/tbm2page.htm

3RD PATENT DOC:

HERE: http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/Underground/tbm3page.htm

DID ANYONE SEE near the LEHIGH VALLEY MALL in Allenown PA around 9:10/21:100 this evening??? IF SO, PLEASE post here and I'll share with the fellow over at ATS.

A HREF="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread341899/pg1"> HERE: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread341899/pg1

posted on 14/3/2008 @ 21:24

Crying Girlfriend saw Strange Craft in Allentown, PA

My girlfriend just got home from Dinner and Shopping in the Lehigh Valley. She is upset, and on the verge of crying, because she and her friend saw something.

I wanted to see if anybody else saw something similar.

It was hovering over rt 22 in the Allentown/Bethlehem, PA area right near the Lehigh Valley Mall, in the vicinity of the Lehigh Valley International Airport.

She described it as looking, first like a series of 3 hovering lights.

Then, it turned into something that was sleek as a type of aircraft, except it was huge, hovering, and as they approached it, it rotated, and she noticed that the rear of the craft was unlike a plane, in that it was wide, and almost like the rear of a car, with a row of white lights across the flat, car-like rear of the vehicle.

This happened at about 9:10PM EST, and there were plenty of other cars on the road, and in the area, since this is a large shopping district.

The vehicle was also low to the ground, and was not a high-altitude sighting.

Any Takers?...

THANKS, DC PATRIOT . . . Appreciate your comments.

Actually, the "ET's" have convinced the globalist oligarchy that

the "ET's"

bioengineered all the great religious figures, including Jesus--and all the world's religions strictly for social control reasons.

And lots of ill-informed, low discernment people will fall for this part of the GREAT DECEPTION predicted 2,000 years ago for this era.

I HOPE you have read Revelation, Daniel 9 & 10 Ezekiel 38 etc. sufficiently to be able to be aware when such things start routinely coming true to the nth detail on CNN routinely.

Enjoy putting myself out there . . . interesting idea . . . I don't per se enjoy that aspect. Would often rather hide. But I do enjoy vigorous intense dialogue about meaningful topics. And END TIMES topics stuff . . . is one of the more interesting, to me and has been so since about 1962-ish.

Personally, the two great commandments are supreme. However, to me, part of Loving God supremely is accepting His provision of Christ for the sacrificial lamb for my inability to hit the bull's eye of perfection . . . just seems to be a super high priority to The Father for folks to accept Christ etc.

Anyway--much appreciate having you on such threads and on the ping list. God's best to you in your growth and travels this spring.

FURTHER FROM THE GIRL FRIEND’S GUY:

It kind of freaked me out. My friends and I are into this stuff, and I guess we are kind of “numb” to it. So, I wasn’t expecting to see this kind of reaction.
But, then again, she is a “normal”, hehe. She isn’t into this stuff.

To see her almost in tears because it didn’t fall into her view of things, really was scary.

They saw it right at the intersection of rt 22 and Mcarthur st, which I can tell you, is extremely busy and people-filled. And, it was also, supposedly hovering very low.

All in all, very disturbing.

Thanks folks. Let’s see if anybody else saw it

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And from another poster on the ATS thread:

I asked a nurse that works in Allentown and she told me another nurses’ son had seen a UFO in Allentown about 2 weeks ago and she was very concerned because she said he is not the type to lie about those types of things.

The nurses’ son described a very similar sight as the OP and the craft was seen at night and hovered just above the tree tops.

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More comments:

As a matter of fact, this happened directly between the airport and the mall, in a large, heavily populated area. The distance between the airport and the mall is only about 2 miles. It happened between 9 and 10PM. Lot’s of traffic.

It was supposedly no more than 2 hundred feet off the ground. Since then, we have driven past the airport a dozen times, and have seen many jets taking off and landing. Both my girlfriend and her friend say that what they saw hovering over the highway was much larger than a passenger jet.

Also, you have to understand that we have all lived less than a mile from the airport for 10 years now. We know what normal craft look like and how they behave.

It is just so strange that nobody has report anything.

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Anyway—just wondered if FREEPERS had seen anything.

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