Steve Allen points to the spot in the sky
where he first saw the U.F.O. in
Stephenville, Texas. He estimated that
it was “bigger than a Wal-Mart.” (Photo:
Jessica Horton/Stephenville
Empire-Tribune, via AP)
Posted on 01/24/2008 9:20:13 AM PST by King of Florida
Steve Allen points to the spot in the sky
where he first saw the U.F.O. in
Stephenville, Texas. He estimated that
it was “bigger than a Wal-Mart.” (Photo:
Jessica Horton/Stephenville
Empire-Tribune, via AP)
As the hype around a U.F.O. sighting in Texas garners an unusual amount of attention, a local Air Force reserve base stepped up on Wednesday with a statement that either completely debunks the story or fuels it further, depending on who you ask and when you ask them.
In the days since the reported sighting — which one witness said was of an object in the sky “bigger than a Wal-Mart,” with the addition of many, many strobe lights — officials at the airbase initially said that none of their aircraft were flying on the night in question.
But they changed their story on Wednesday: now they say that 10 F-16 fighter jets were indeed airborne between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. local time that night, on a training mission. That includes the 5-minute period when unidentified flying objects were sighted.
So is it time to say, “So much for aliens in Texas dairy country”?
Not if you ask The Associated Press, which published that line in an early version of its report before switching to a much more noncomittal lead paragraph.
One of the people expressing doubts about the F-16 explanation was Kenneth Cherry of the Mutual UFO Network, who asserted, “This supports our story that there was U.F.O. activity in that area.” He was apparently referring to one witness’s claim that the fighter jets were there to chase the U.F.O.
(Excerpt) Read more at thelede.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Landed Walmart 'mother ship' picks up Tie Fighters before heading back into orbit
As well you should be -- here's an actual Google satellite pic of the Stephenville, Texas Wal-Mart:
The same way they all missed the planes flying miles and miles and miles off course during 9-11. They were all on union sanctioned breaks.
They'd just better stay away from the Ssenniug Artxe Tuots.
Seriesly.
I'll take my Hgalellihs to 'em ....
Didn’t catch that on the search for “UFO” or “U.F.O.”, then I realized too late that “UFO” wouldn’t have come up because of the four-character minimum on searches . . . .
So you're saying that not only the Wal-Mart itself, but also the cars and the parking lot, and some of the surrounding fields were flying that night.
Goodness, but that is a big UFO!
Or maybe the probe was just still warm from the last time they used it on you....
With all the leaks from official Washington, there has never been a leak related to government knowledge about otherworldy craft?
That is all I need to know to realize “UFO’s” are from this world.
I saw the witnesses interviewed on FOX that day.
They were quite matter-of-fact. The big UFO flew silently by. Then the F-16’s roared past in pursuit.
They couldn’t quite agree on exactly what the UFO looked like, but they certainly knew the F-16’s when they saw them.
in Texas, we measure time in beers and size in Wal-Marts.
No abduction and butt probe?....In TEXAS?...........Those aren’t SPACE aliens...........
That's proof enough for me!
My family has a ranch not too far from this area. Fighters jets are common in the area, everyone sees them constantly, so residents would not be likely to mistake a group of jets for something else. Putting together all the stories, I come up with this possibility:
People saw an undisclosed military aircraft or aircrafts being escorted by jets.
eewww...
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