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. ADVERTISEMENT 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."
Dozens in Texas town report seeing UFO
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SoyCatracho
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Time to bring Mulder and Scully out of retirement.
Dark Angel
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As I was cruisin through New Mexico I had the curiousity to visit Roswell...well I visited their little ufo museum and they had a map of all the states in which reported on sighting UFO'S...LOL And Texas led the way to having the most sightings.[crazy]
Dark Angel
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ahahahaha.
Just the other day I went with some of my family on a little road trip to a place called Aurora, Texas. Legend has it that a spaceman crashed into a tower (or windmill?) there in the 1890s and is buried in the local cemetery. There's a little plot of ground there about two feet by four feet that no grass at all grows on. The dirt on top of it is light and sandy, as opposed to the black clumpy earth in the rest of the cemetery. Also in that one spot there is a sulpher like odor coming up from the ground. That's where the spaceman is supposed to be buried, according to "those who know". No one puts a tombstone there because they don't want people digging him up suppsoedly. Some say it was all a hoax, some say it was real and later was said to be a hoax because the town's people didn't want to be so infamous and bothered by people from all over the US.
and how many pills did you swallow that day?
Dark Angel
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weird...We should go, me and you and unearth this lil patch and make millons.
weird...We should go, me and you and unearth this lil patch and make millons.
We should! This is kind of a North Texas "secret" I think. This town has like 200 people or something. Some of my older relatives grew up around there and always heard about it. Stuff will come up on google about it. Like I said- some say it's a hoax and some say it was later said to be a hoax for privacy reasons and to keep people from digging up the cemetery. That plot is there, as legend has always said though. I just saw it.
Dark Angel
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there is some logic to it I suppose, if you do not want your town to turn into Roswell.We should! This is kind of a North Texas "secret" I think. This town has like 200 people or something. Some of my older relatives grew up around there and always heard about it. Stuff will come up on google about it. Like I said- some say it's a hoax and some say it was later said to be a hoax for privacy reasons and to keep people from digging up the cemetery. That plot is there, as legend has always said though. I just saw it.
truthBtold
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what was with all the Transvestites on American Idol Dallas?
Dark Angel
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lol. I dunno I do not watch the show.
Umm well I dunno...I think that it is presumptious of us to think that we are the only beings that exist in the universe.
lol- I don't know, I don't watch that show anymore. As for Dallas, nothing surprises me. It has turned into crimesville and freaktown.
I have an open mind about it. Never had a definite type experience to make me a total believer.
there is some logic to it I suppose, if you do not want your town to turn into Roswell.
Yeah, and keep in mind this was in the 1890s. No airplanes even. In the 1960s-1970s there was renewed interest in the Aurora, Texas thing- UFO groups and scientists wanting to dig up the grave. Old people in the town started saying it had always been a hoax- maybe because it was true or maybe because they wanted people to leave them & their cemetery the hell alone.
My grandfather who is 73 said he always heard it was true. A professor now teaching at UNT in Denton, found a piece of metal with wierd symbols on it- at the farm where the UFO supposedly crashed and had it tested. About 20 percent of the metal content cannot be identified.
diiS nENA 1308
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i saw that story in the news last night...
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