UFOs Spotted By Dozens In Texas
by Nicole
Several residents in and around Stephenville, Texas, a rural community approximately 100 miles southwest of Dallas, have reported UFO sightings over the last week. On January 10th, 2008 a local newspaper printed an account of a sighting by Steve Allen and two of his friends. Since then, dozens more people have come forward with similar stories.
Allen, a freight company owner, who has also worked as a private pilot for more than three decades, and his friend Lance Jones were hanging out at their pal Mike Odom's home in Selden, 9 miles outside of Stephenville, on the evening of Tuesday, January 8th. At approximately 6.15 p.m., while outside admiring the sunset, all three of them saw something they couldn't explain.
"The ship wasn't really visible and was totally silent, but the lights spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide," Allen told a reporter from the Stephenville Empire Tribune. "The lights went from corner to corner. It was directly above Highway 67 traveling towards Stephenville at a high rate of speed - about 3,000 miles per hour is what I would estimate."
Allen and his buddies watched as a single horizontal set of strobe-like lights changed formation, moving into two vertical lines. "The two sets were approximately one-quarter of a mile apart," Allen said. "Then they turned into dirty burning flames. The flames were not blue. They were white in color. About two seconds later it disappeared completely." Ten minutes later the UFO's reappeared. "This time it came from the west traveling east towards Glen Rose," Allen said. "And it was about two or three miles south of 67, and two military jets, possibly F16s, were in pursuit."
After seeing Allen's account in his local paper, machinist Ricky Sorrells, who lives in the nearby town of Dublin, also came forward. Sorrells claims to have seen a flat, metallic object hovering at a low level over the pasture behind is home. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I'm not crazy," said Sorrells to an Associated Press reporter.
Lee Roy Gaitan, a police constable and UFO skeptic, also saw something. Armed with binoculars, he saw glowing red lights followed by white flashing lights moving at high speed. "I didn't see a flying saucer and I don't know what it was, but it wasn't an airplane, and I've never seen anything like it," Gaitan said. "I think it must be some kind of military craft - at least I hope it was."
Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, told the Associated Press that no military craft were flying in the area on the evening of January 8th, which was when most of the sightings occurred. "I'm 90 percent sure this was an airliner," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."
The US Air Force no longer officially investigates UFOs. Project Blue Book, an X-Files type department which did, was closed in 1970. Since then numerous high-ranking government and military officials have called for the US government to re-open its investigations. Speaking at a UFO conference held at the National Press Club in November 2007, former Arizona Governor Fife Symington (who was himself a witness to the "Phoenix Lights" UFO incident) said, "I believe that our government should take an active role in investigating this very real phenomenon."
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