It appears that our galactic brothers and sisters were visiting my part of the world yesterday ~ how exciting!
UPDATE 1/23/08: Read the following CNN and Dallas Morning News article about the Air Force's comments regarding the UFOs seen earlier in the month in Stephenville, Texas. The Dallas article is more in depth, in my opinion. Take their poll!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/23/airforce.ufo/index.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/012408dntexufo.4f269ff6.html
Update: I have now attached some digital photos I took last night of some strange lights in the sky over north-central Texas. What I saw was a bright white orb with pulsing/rotating colorful lights. My photos are attached. I don't know if I saw a real UFO, but I feel certain that it was not a star.
Link to Video & Article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ufo_sightings
By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer Mon Jan 14, 6:37 PM ET
STEPHENVILLE, Texas - In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.
Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.
"People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."
While federal officials insist there's a logical explanation, locals swear that it 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. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.
Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
"You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal," Sorrells said. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I'm not crazy."
Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.
Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.
Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.
"I'm 90 percent sure this was an airliner," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."
Officials at the region's two Air Force bases — Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls — also said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs.
One man has offered a reward for a photograph or videotape of the mysterious object.
About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.
Fourteen percent of Americans polled last year by The Associated Press and Ipsos say they have seen a UFO.
Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan said that he first saw red glowing lights and then white flashing lights moving fast, but that even with binoculars could not see the object to which the lights were attached.
"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."
Penny, Thanks for posting this. I think this is so exciting especially since there have been numerous siting in the last few weeks. I even belive I saw one during the week of Christmas but when I told people I got the usual dumb stare, finger circling the temple etc.
I sent Web of love to them then, and also this morning when I first heard about the Stephenville sitings. I am hoping that someone managed to get some photos.
Hi, Berry!
Yes, I hope someone in Stephenville was able to capture some photos of that huge UFO ~ I would dearly love to see them!
Love & light, Penny :-)
Hi Penny,
Those are stunning photos! I have always wanted to see photos taken by somebody I "know" who actually saw them. I have not had the privilege to see any. I know there have been sightings in S.A. but I think they are not as usual as on other continents.
Thank you for sharing these with us must have been an awesome experience.
Love and LIght
Ursula
I've been reading about this event online, and these are the first photos I've seen. Do you know what the National Enquirer would pay you for them!? Gosh, I wish I could have been there!
I have also seen and photographed UFOs. My photos are all taken in the daylight. We know these visitors have always been around. They are in ancient literature and art. I observed to my astonishment several years ago that shining orbs often follow chemtrails. They have to be huge to be visible from high altitude.
Growing up on the west coast, I've seen some very queer military manifestations in the skies. Vandenburg AFB seems to be the source of many of them, in particular missiles that either explode or release glowing gas shortly after sunset so that they glow in the evening sky. Not everything that's up there is from other dimensions or galaxies. But there is definitely some unfamiliar stuff up there.
I like to remind myself of the scientist who asserted that not only is reality stranger than we think it is, it is stranger than we CAN think!
8-D
Thanks, Ursula ~ I don't really know what it was that I have taken photos of, but I feel certain they are not stars! ha-ha
Love & light, Penny :-)
So true, Dave! I imagine we cannot even begin to fathom how utterly strange and bizarre reality is! All I know is that I am having fun trying to figure things out! ha-ha
Love & light, Penny :-)
By the way, reports that I've read suggest that numerous reports of UFOs in various configurations have been coming in from across Texas and that in some cases our jets were observed in pursuit. Now that's something I'd really love to see!
8-D
Me, too!!!
Love & light, Penny :-)
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Thanks, Aquene (a.k.a. Natalie)! Right now, as I write this post, the same white orbs with pulsing/rotating colorful lights are in the night sky above my home. I don't know what/who they are, but I find them completely fascinating and lovely to look at! I so wish I could zoom-in more than what my little digital camera allows!!! hee-hee
Love & light, Penny :-)
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Hi Penny,
Found this in the latest compilation from Jean Hudon's Earth Rainbow Network and thought it might be of interest.
Love and Light
Ursula
Dozens in Texas town report seeing UFO (Jan 14, 2008) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ufo_sightings_4
STEPHENVILLE, Texas - In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.Several dozen people - including a pilot, county constable and business owners - insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it."People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."While federal officials insist there's a logical explanation, locals swear that it 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. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object. (...) About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate. Fourteen percent of Americans polled last year by The Associated Press and Ipsos say they have seen a UFO. CLIP
Thanks so much for posting this article, Ursula! This has been a hot topic on evening news shows as of late here in the U.S. CNN has provided quite a bit of coverage, which is really great. Larry King discussed the Stephenville sighting on Friday night with 7 or 8 credible guests and 1 complete skeptic and is having another show regarding UFOs on tonight (Sunday). I understand Anderson Cooper also took some time to discuss the sighting on one of his recent shows. Slowly but surely I think the truth will start coming out in America, thank goodness!
Love & light, Penny :-)
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http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/13802
Military claims credit for Texas UFO sightings, witnesses don't buy it
By Armando Duke
(AXcess News) Houston - Air Force Reserve officials at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth had denied any activity by the military the night of January 8th when UFO sightings were reported near Stephenville, but now they're saying otherwise, that what people saw were U.S. military reserve F-16 pilots on night maneuvers, though many UFO witnesses aren't buying into it.
At the time of the Stephenville Texas UFO sightings on January 8th, the military said their weren't any scheduled maneuvers, yet several eyewitness accounts as reported to the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, a research group that conducts scientific investigations into reported unidentified flying object sightings, had said that following the appearance of the UFOs, military jets appeared right behind them that seemed to be chasing the mysterious objects.
One Stephenville witness, a trained civilian pilot, described the UFO as" being very large and moving at a rate of speed twice that which military F-16 jets are capable of traveling at and omitted no sound as well." That observation hardly sounds like an F-16 jet from the Fort Worth Air Force reserve which is stationed at the Naval Base about 50 miles from Stephenville.
MUFON director Kenneth Cherry says there were more than 50 reports from locals at a meeting last weekend. Cherry is suspicious of the Air Force saying now, after two weeks, that they did have planes in the air that night, believing they spoke up because of all the publicity the UFO sightings have gotten from the press.
On MUFON's website, I searched forward through today and found descriptions from eyewitness accounts long after the January 8th UFO sighting outside Stephenville whose descriptions made me agree with Mr. Cherry, that the Air Force may indeed be covering something up, though what, I can't begin to imagine.
"I saw the UFO hovering about half a mile above ground around 10 pm," an eyewitness said. "I heard the jets from a distance, looked like they were coming from the Ft. Worth area. When I looked at the jets and looked back to the hovering UFO, its lights blinked 4 times, went black and quickly shot off to the south towards Hico."
This reported UFO sighting was not on the night of January 8th - but the following Wednesday - January 16th. The woman described the UFO as being a mile long, bell shaped with bright blinking lights. Does that sound like an F-16 military jet to you?
Steve Allen, the man interviewed by the Stephenville Empire-Tribune soon after the first UFO sighting was quoted today as saying, "I guarantee that what we saw was not a civilian aircraft." Allen, a trained pilot, said the area where they spotted the UFO on the night of January 8th was not a fly zone, so it couldn't possibly have been what the Air Force says were jet aircraft.
What ever people saw has made the U.S. military uneasy and it looks like the heat's not going to be turned off anytime soon.
This week Tarleton State University is hosting a lecture by a UFO researcher on the U.S. government's secret response to UFOs. The school says the lecture will take place January 24th at 7:30 titled, "UFO - The Secret Story". The University post a description of the lecture on its site saying, "This program is not science fiction, or based on mere speculation. Instead, it presents the starling facts about UFOs the government has secretly collected over the years, and explains why they were hidden from the public for so long."
The UFO lecture is expected to draw a standing room only crowd.
AXcess News is reporting on the Texas UFO sightings through a series of stories extending through Sunday. As in all our previous reports, if anyone has information or an experience they'd like to share, please email me as soon as possible and if you have any images send them as an attachment if you can. So far, we received well over 4,000 contacts and with that kind of interest in the UFO phenomena, we won't disappoint. Next, I hope to give readers more insight into the workings of the Texas chapter of MUFON and provide readers with an exclusive interview with Ken Cherry, a founding director.
For those readers' interested in reading more on our UFO coverage, below are links to our previous UFO stories in order of publication:
January 22, 2008, "More UFO Sightings Reported Over Texas"
January 20, 2008, "Mixed reader response to Texas UFO sightings - prompts series of stories"
January 17, 2008, "UFO Conspiracy Theorists Banking on Hillary Clinton Winning the election"
January 17, 2008, "Texas UFO Sighting Under Investigation"
January 15, 2008, "Texas UFO Sightings Blamed on DEA"