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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Councilman Files Complaint Against Air Force for Stephenville Incident!

From Steve Allen
9-4-08

Stephenville Texas representative Mr. Mark Murphy has filed complaints with the FAA and the DOT (pursuant to 14 CFR 13 on air safety) on behalf of himself, his family, and his constituents as an elected representative regarding the events which took place over Stephenville Texas on the evening of January 8, 2008. Mr. Murphy requested a reprimand of the USAF for large scale military operations in a populated area without notification of local authorities. City officials are supposed to be notified when such events are going to take place. No such notification was given prior to the F-16s flying over the city.

This is a bold step to force some action which is long over due. The fact that there were F-16s flying in and around the Stephenville area is serious because Stephenville is not within the military operating zone. Long time Stephenville resident and UFO witness Steve Allen said he saw a large UFO pass over head at a high rate of speed followed by a F-16 in pursuit. All 301st public affairs chief Maj. Karl Lewis said is that 10 F-16s were in the sky that evening flying a training mission. No mention of large UFOs which out-passed F-16s as the multiple witnesses said they saw.

I know Mr. Mark Murphy, and he will let me know of any response he receives from his formal complaint. I will then release the response(s) ASAP to the media.

To all those who have followed the Stephenville Texas UFO incident from the beginning, and to all those who have just started looking into it, we must demand answers and we can't let the USAF get away with telling lies and half truths. This is one of the most important (if not the most important) UFO incident in history.

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

They'rrre Back! UFOs Filmed Over Stephenville . . . Again

By JIM DOUGLAS
WFAA
10-25-08

STEPHENVILLE — Over a three-month period this summer there were 1,000 UFO sightings filed with the National UFO Reporting Center.

Some 75 of those UFOs were reported over the state of Texas.

Stephenville is one hot spot we've shown you before.

Now the small town is getting buzzed by UFOs again and we have the video.

"You could see the oval shape. Got my friend, I said 'dude, you got to come look at this,'" said Andy Monrreal.

Monrreal was hanging out with his Dublin High School friends when they all saw something they say looked like a UFO.

"You could see a shape. It was like a complete circle," said Monrreal.

He rolled off a half minute of video on his mom's digital camera.

His dad saw it too.

"I never seen nothing like that in my life. Big lights and everything," his father said.

So did mom.

"It was a round thing. You could see lights around it, flickering and changing. It was awesome. Just turning and flickering," she said.

Back in January, Erath County went UFO crazy after a handful of people reported similar lights over Stephenville.

International press and UFO hunters descended on the town.

This time, many more eye witnesses are phoning the Stephenville Empire Tribune or the ET.

UFOs Return Over Stephenville 10-25-08 (B)

Reporter Whitney Ashley said many people don't want to talk publicly, like several workers at the paper, who also saw the lights.

"I've got at least 10 right now willing to go on record," Ashley said.

"The sheriff's department got lots of calls in the southern part of Erath County."

Down around Dublin, home of DR Pepper.

The Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth confirms seven F-16s training in the area at the time.

Several witnesses told us they saw the fighters, after they saw the mysterious lights.

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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Tex Files: Stephenville UFOs

By www.myfoxdfw.com
5-1-11

STEPHENVILLE, Texas - A decade ago, amid the popularity of the X Files television show on Sunday night on FOX 4, Richard Ray ran a periodic series of reports called the Tex Files which focused on legitimate Texas mysteries worthy of X Files' plots. This week Richard brings us a new case that's widely known as the Stephenville UFOs.

It was a story that attracted international attention. Dozens of credible people reported seeing unidentified flying objects over Stephenville, Texas. Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitain risked ridicule and abuse to publicly describe remarkable things they'd seen in the skies over Stephenville on January 8th, 2008.

The initial reports sparked a media frenzy and attracted the attention of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, a group of UFO enthusiasts. The group organized an event for witnesses to come forward and tell their stories. Despite the circus-like atmosphere, more credible witnesses came forward including three police officers who wish to remain anonymous.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Eyewitness, Steve Allen Recounts Stephenville UFO Incident| 7th ANNIVERSARY of THE STEPHENVILLE LIGHTS

By GCNnews
YouTube
2-1-08

Editor's Note: Eyewitness Steve Allen recounts his experience of what is now known as "The Stephenville Lights" on this 7th anniversary of the events (1-8-08–FW

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Monday, January 16, 2012

"...The Anniversary of a UFO Event in Texas That Would’ve Been a National Security Scandal had the MSM Bothered to Study the Radar Evidence..."

Maybe add a Powerball lottery?

By Billy Cox
De Void
1-13-12

Four years ago this week, the anniversary of a UFO event in Texas that would’ve been a national security scandal had the MSM bothered to study the radar evidence passed once more with little fanfare. Not even National Public Radio, which did such a superb job on the front end, reported how the drama involving jet fighters on Jan. 8, 2008, ended at the doorstep of President Bush’s ranch in Crawford.

Today, a “We The People” appeal demanding a White House explanation is quietly tanking and, by the time its 30-day deadline to acquire 25,000 signatures expires late this month, it’ll join all the other UFO petitions in the dead letter office. But those results hardly absolve the feds from accountability.

“No, I do not think it’s plausible that if you have an unknown object, without a transponder, heading for the home of the President of the United States, as it’s being chased by F-16s, that the FAA automatically destroyed those records,” says UFO historian Richard Dolan. “That makes no sense.”

The soon-to-be-defunct petition in question also links to MUFON’s reconstruction of the so-called Stephenville Incident using civilian radar records recovered via FOIA request, which covered a 4-8 p.m. window on 1/8/2008, as the massive UFO beelined for the “Western White House” no-fly zone. The FAA claimed it had routinely liquidated all records subsequent to 8 p.m., which was better than the military could provide (no records at all).

Dolan, author of UFOs and The National Security State Volumes 1 and II, recently watched his own White House petition fizzle after collecting less than 2,000 signatures. Last month, he and petition co-author Bryce Zabel called for independent hearings into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena that would extend immunity to government whistle-blowers. He concedes there were problems with the timing (holidays), and technical glitches on the White House end that evoked numerous complaints from those who had trouble logging in. Maybe there was a little “petition fatigue” as well, as nearly half a dozen UFO petitions made the rounds since the “We The People” initiative launched last September.

Dolan declines to blame those factors for petition failure, however, and says the greater challenge is crafting language that is at once elegant, simple, non-accusatory, and precisely targeted. “I think we have to remember this is a White House petition, not an FAA petition or a CIA petition,” he says from his home in Rochester, N.Y. “It’s not like the president has the ability to dictate to the FAA.”

As an exercise in public policy, getting the White House to chase the Stephenville Incident is probably a grad-school project. Dolan says maybe the trick is to start with Freshman 101 — evoking a White House concession that the UFO challenge is real.

“It would give you a starting point to address other issues like avation safety. Aviation safety does not stretch the parameters of our reality too much,” Dolan says. “There are a number of reports on record of pilots reporting unknown objects zooming by their aircraft in ways that qualify as near misses. I think you can call that a legitimate aviation safety issue. There’s a history to it.”

But even if a petition were written by Mr. Spock himself, how would you motivate 25,000 people to spend 10 seconds to autograph it? Maybe this takes advanced degrees in psych to figure out.

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Monday, September 08, 2008

Texas Official Demands Answers About Alleged UFO

By Pam Harris
CBS11tv.com
9-5-08

STEPHENVILLE (CBS 11 News) ― Dozens of Stephenville residents reported seeing UFOs in the area in January. At first, the military reported there were no aircraft in the area that night. Two weeks later, officials said they were conducting training exercises in the area.

Now some city officials want to know if a government exercise was being performed, why they weren't notified ahead of time.

"I want to know why public officials weren't notified of a large military operation in our area," said Stephenville City Councilmember Mark Murphy. He has filed a complaint with U. S. Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration, demanding answers.

"My main concern is public safety," said Councilman Murphy. "I want to make sure that if anything like this is going on, people are alerted."

But residents were mixed on what the public needs to know.

"I think the government needs to let us know when we need to know, but on something like this, it's not appropriate," said Stephenville resident Cliff McMinn.

"I think the city has a right to know," said Dell Eastwood, a resident of Stephenville. "I guess the federal government doesn't think they do."

According to a local aviation expert, the military must communicate with the FAA, but they are not required to contact city officials. Councilman Murphy thinks that rule should be changed.

"Just so we know they're going to be operating in this area," he said. "It's only a courtesy - intergovernmental courtesy."

Councilman Murphy says he doesn't need to know details about what the military was doing over the skies of Stephenville that night, he just wants corrective action to be taken.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

UFO Sightings Galvanize a Small Town

By Denise Gellene
The LA Times
6-22-08

But Air Force says jets were in area

STEPHENVILLE, Texas - Constable Lee Roy Gaitan saw the brilliant red orbs hovering in the sky and hollered for his family to come out.

It's probably an airplane, said his wife, Wendy, who didn't budge from the couch. Only 8-year-old Ryan went to the front yard.

That's a UFO, the boy said.

Gaitan, who has spent 16 years patrolling the Texas scrubland, faced a bit of a dilemma. With an election coming up, he could tell the world of this incredible sight - and look like an idiot - or keep his mouth shut.

"People would say, 'Hey, this guy is nuts. He's crazy,' " said Gaitan of his sighting Jan. 8. In the morning, there were no unusual police reports, leaving him to wonder whether anyone else had seen the lights. But the next day, the Stephenville Empire-Tribune came out with a front-page story: "Possible UFO sighting - Four area residents witness mysterious objects."

Soon, scores more said they had seen the same thing. Stephenville, a ranch town 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, became home to the biggest mass UFO sighting since the 1997 Lights Over Phoenix, in which thousands of people, including then-governor Fife Symington, reported seeing a boomerang-shaped object in the sky.

With so many reports from so many people pouring in, there was no easy way to dismiss it all as a hoax. A town that had called itself The Cowboy Capital of the World now found itself riding an emotional bronco.

Stephenville, the largest town in Erath County, is in the heart of Texas dairy country, which means open land and few towns to interrupt grazing.

Cows easily outnumber the 34,000 humans in the county. After football season ends in the winter, life slows.

It was a cool, clear January night when Steve Allen, 50, and a group of friends were warming themselves around a fire of brush and debris in nearby Selden, just south of Stephenville.

They first saw a set of brilliant white lights heading from the east that looked like they were at the corners of something a mile long and a half mile wide. The lights were quicker and quieter than anything Allen had ever seen.

"They came within a mile of us," said Allen, the owner of L & S Enterprises and Texas Freight, a local trucking company. "It flipped us all out."

The lights headed toward Stephenville, where they came to a stop. They reconfigured to form an arch "shaped like the top of a football," Allen said, and realigned themselves into two vertical lines of randomly flashing lights. Then the object burst into a dirty white flame.

"It looked like something firing up, like a blow torch," Allen said. "It simply vanished.

Ten minutes later, the group saw the lights coming from the opposite direction. Trailing them closely, Allen was certain, were two military jets followed by two massive red orbs.

Allen, who as a licensed pilot was comfortable judging distance, said the lights were 3,000 feet above the ground.

He went home and told his wife, who urged him to keep the encounter to himself.

Allen spent a sleepless night, enthralled by what he had seen. In the morning, he contacted the Empire-Tribune.

His call went to education reporter Angelia Joiner. She knew nothing about UFOs, but Allen sounded like a sensible man.

"He was a pilot and seemed very intelligent," said Joiner, a 47-year-old former school teacher who had been a reporter for 18 months. Allen's friends confirmed the account.

Still, it was a strange story, and Joiner's bosses were concerned. Managing editor Sara Vanden Berge said she was so anxious that she cried the next morning when she saw "UFO" in the headline. Everyone is laughing at us, she thought.

That was before the television crews started showing up. First came the local reporters, then people from "Good Morning America," NPR, and CNN.

The town was swept into a UFO maelstrom. People sported aluminum foil hats to Stephenville High School basketball games. Men with belt buckles big as fists were wearing "Alien Capital of the World" T-shirts rushed into production by a local company.

A logical explanation for the lights was the military; a portion of Erath County falls under a fly zone used in training exercises. When Joiner checked, however, the 301st Fighter Wing stationed near Forth Worth said no aircraft were near Stephenville when the lights were first observed.

But two weeks after the sighting, a break came in the case. Correcting its earlier statement, the Air Force said 10 F-16s were on a training mission over the county when the lights were initially spotted.

The town splintered into believers and skeptics.

Joiner doubted the weird pattern of lights reported by Allen and others could be explained by military aircraft. Allen wasn't buying it, either. "Our military wishes it had what we saw," he said.

Gaitan reasoned from the presence of the F-16s that he probably had seen a military experiment the Air Force couldn't fully disclose. "We're in the middle of a war right now," he said.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

UFO Fervor Has Spread Far Beyond Stephenville

By Matt Frazier and Bryon Okada
he Star Telegram
1-17-08

The Stephenville UFOs have gone beyond North Texas.

Thanks to dozens of reports of a strange, silent object over the town about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, UFO stories have filled newscasts, newspapers and online reports around the world.

"Dozens in Texas Town Report Seeing UFO," read an online headline for The Washington Post.

"Multiple reports of UFO-like sighting in Texas town," proclaimed Canada's CBC News.

UFO photos were among the top Yahoo searches this morning, along with Katie Holmes and Prince William's girlfriend.

The reported sightings have become a catalyst on blogs and in chat rooms, triggering scientific and philosophical debates, religious inquiries, conspiracy charges and bad Texas jokes.

"It's amazing how this has taken on an international profile," said Kenneth Cherry, president of the Texas chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. "I've had calls from Japanese and British newspapers. I'm supposed to be doing Larry King Live on Friday."

All this attention is not enough, says one group in New York, which believes this should be a top issue for the presidential candidates.

But in Stephenville, a dairy town of 15,000, most people just thought the UFO sightings were fun.

'Interesting today'

A UFO is parked outside a Stephenville business.

"It's been interesting today," said Treva Thompson with the Stephenville Chamber of Commerce. "My son and some of his friends made helmets out of tinfoil and are walking around town."

City Secretary Cindy Stafford has been going about town in a green alien mask. Some high school students are making alien T-shirts. One automobile dealership put up a sign saying UFOs could be traded in there.

It's not that people are making fun of those who say they saw a UFO, said Sara Vanden Berge, managing editor of the Stephenville Empire-Tribune. With such a small population, the witnesses, including county Constable Leroy Gaitan, are too well-known.

It's just that aliens are a fun and welcome change from cowboys and rodeos.

"There are some people who are taking it very seriously," Vanden Berge said. "But there is a large group of people having a good time with it. They are just having fun with the idea."

Others across the country are also having fun with the idea.

Some of the comments on the Internet and airwaves over the past couple of days:

Why did the Stephenville resident cross the road? To get to the other UFO.

Is the UFO over Stephenville looking for Jewel and Tasty BBQ? (The singer Jewel has been connected with legendary rodeo competitor and Stephenville resident Ty Murray.)

President Bush has hired real aliens to get rid of the illegal human aliens.

Taking it seriously

Not amused by the jokes is Dennis Balthaser, UFO researcher and former director of Roswell's International UFO Museum and Research Center.

"Once again the media is not taking this seriously, and that makes it difficult to investigate," Balthaser said.

Supporting this idea is the Washington-based Paradigm Research Group, which dedicates itself to getting the federal government to acknowledge and disclose information about extraterrestrials on Earth. This week it renewed its long call for the mainstream media to take the issue seriously, saying it should demand answers from the presidential candidates regarding the issue.

The group says it has compiled 1,700 news accounts of UFOs since 1947.

"What you discover is the local and regional press covered the issue pretty straight," executive director Stephen Bassett said. "The phenomena is laid out. But when it comes to the top tier -- the major networks and papers of record in the U.S. -- they have not done their job."

The problem is obvious, says one responder to a news blog: The media is conspiring with the government to keep the existence of UFOs a secret.

One post from South Carolina offered a different idea: "I don't know y'all, but it seems to me like a tourist attraction scam."

Spiritual questions

Is God an alien?

Can a Christian believe in UFOs?

Aren't UFOs mentioned in the Bible?

Questions like these have become popular as some struggle to reaffirm their place in the universe.

That is as it should be, said C. Scott Littleton, professor of anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

"People have been seeing anomalous objects in the sky for millennia, but for the most part they -- and their occupants -- have been perceived as gods, demons," Littleton said. "Indeed, I suspect that most if not all of our religions evolved to 'explain' these otherwise inexplicable phenomena."

Believing or not believing in UFOs is not so much a concern, said James K. Walker, president of the Watchman Fellowship, an evangelical group based in Arlington that debunks cults.

What is a concern are those rare instances in which unexplained phenomena result in the formation of a religious group or cult that professes to offer spiritual guidance, then spins off -- for whatever reason -- in a destructive pattern. "When they go off the deep end, they can take a bunch of people with them."

He mentioned the 1997 case in which Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, persuaded followers to commit suicide so their souls could ride on a spaceship trailing Comet Hale-Bopp.

Telepathic channeling with aliens is a common feature of UFO-based cults, said Walker, who included several UFO cults -- Chen Tao in Garland, Armageddon Tim Ark Base in Weslaco, the Raelians of Southern California to name a few -- in his recent book, The Concise Guide to Today's Religions And Spirituality.

"Faith is a good thing," the "unapologetically Christian" Walker said. "The object of your faith is what makes all the difference."

Report a UFO

The Texas chapter of the Mutual UFO Network plans to begin interviewing witnesses at 1 p.m. Saturday in a meeting room in downtown Dublin near the Dr Pepper plant. To report a sighting, call MUFON State Director Kenneth Cherry at 817-379-0773 or fill out a report form at www.mufon.com.

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

3rd Anniversary of The Stephenville Lights Incident | Don’t Bother The Media with Science

By Billy Cox
De Void
1-5-2011

It’s broken-record time again, but there’s no getting around it. Three years ago this Saturday, the arguably most well-documented UFO drama of the 21st century unfolded above the Stepheville region of central Texas. With residents reporting a Hollywood-sized thingamajig shadowing the sleepy cow town and provoking a high-speed jet fighter chase, national and international media scrambled to the scene. After initially stating eyewitnesses were wrong because there weren’t any warplanes in the local skies that night, Carswell AFB near Fort Worth admitted days later that 10 F-16s were conducting the proverbial routine training missions, even as they strayed out of their military operating area. But its explanations never confronted the UFO head-on.

What made this incident truly exceptional was the subsequent analysis posted by Mutual UFO Network investigators. Using FOIA-acquired data from five civilian ground locations, Glen Schulze and Robert Powell recovered 2.8 million radar hits between 4 and 8 p.m. that profiled the object’s journey along a route that ended just outside the no-fly zone surrounding President Bush’s Western White House in Crawford.

So let’s see a show of hands. How many of you have bothered to read this 77-page report? You really should. It’s a demanding document, highly technical and detailed, but that’s the whole point, and it made a sick joke of a military PIO’s attempts to dismiss it as “speculative.” Caught with their pants down, multiple air bases refused to answer direct questions — “Did you have aircraft flying within 50 miles of Stephenville, Tex., on Jan. 8, 2008?” — with yes or no answers and uniformly replied “We have found no records responsive to your request.”

De Void has since approached UFO skeptics who decry a lack of evidence — from former NASA historian Steven Dick to SETI astronomer Seth Shostak — to comment on MUFON’s exhaustive research. Invariably, not a one is familiar with it. And the mainstream media, so eager to interview eyewitnesses three Januarys ago, ignored the MUFON analysis when it went online the following July.

Three years later, co-author Powell, the semiconductor engineer and MUFON research director who requested but received nary a shred of military radar data, sounds resigned to America’s inept mode of media inquiry, whether it’s UFOs or anything else.

“The media isn’t big on details, and it buys into authority figures way too readily,” he says from his home in Austin, Tex. “A good example is the Patriot Act. They bought into the title, but it has nothing to do with patriotism. It takes away the civil liberties of Americans.”

With the absentee press unable or unwilling to shine a light on the MUFON data, there’s no incentive for scientists like Shostak and Dick to become conversant, either. And, according to Powell, the lack of accountability enables the extended complacency of a world view that UFO data increasingly appears to contradict.

“I think there’s two things going on,” Powell says. “For a certain percentage of scientists, simply looking at the evidence equates to a belief in little green men. But we’ve discovered more than 500 extrasolar planets, and inevitably we’re going to find those with water and all the conditions for life as we know it. So we have your Seth (Shostak)-like guys who say, well OK, but we don’t have the faintest possibility of traveling to the nearest star, so nobody else does, either.

“It reminds me of the arguments they were having about whether the Earth was the center of the universe.”

Will this constipated impasse never end?

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Radar Shows Stephenville UFO Heading Toward President's Ranch | 7th ANNIVERSARY of THE STEPHENVILLE LIGHTS

By Rob Freeman
YouTube
4-7-2012

Video of recorded radar data, animated by the RADARplot application.
Shows 2 hours (at approx x50 speed) of the data from the Stephenville 2008 incident (3 of 5 radars). . . .

. . . Aircraft with transponders are shown as green (above 5000') and blue (below 5000'). Primary radar returns that don't correlate with a transponder are shown in white.
Aircraft entering and flying around the Brownwood MOAs (two groups of 4 aircraft), are jets from Carswell AFB.

The Schulze-Powell track begins at 18:51 between WitJ and WitG and moves towards PCR Crawford. Although intermittent, a cumulative plot (see other video) shows a definite track. Other interesting anomalies are present.

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Angelia Joiner Stephenville Lights Reporter & Alfred Webre on the Richard Syrett Show

By Exopolitics Toronto
6-3-08

Toronto, ON , Canada June 2, 2008 – Angelia Joiner former staff writer for the Stephenville Empire Tribune will join host Richard Syrett and co-host Victor Viggiani this Wednesday June 4 on News Talk 1010 CFRB AM Toronto from 11:00 pm to midnight EST to discuss the Stephenville Lights UFO phenomenon.

Angelia uncovered what is today considered by many one of the most puzzling UFO events in North American history. Her eye witness interviews include pilots, police officers and local citizens, each of whom attest to having seen massive, solid rectangular unidentified craft hundreds of metres in length – moving silently 270 metres above them.

Angelia Joiner tells her story about how a small town in Texas in January of 2008 became a world focal point as their newspaper – The Stephenville Empire Tribune – first covered the story, creating international repercussions, and then shortly thereafter ceasing all coverage. Ms. Joiner’s less than ceremonious departure from the Stephenville Empire Tribune portrays how, and possibly why mainstream journalists are pressured to play-down UFO events of high significance.

Rivaled only by the stunning Phoenix Lights of 1997 as brought to us by Dr. Lynne Kitei in an earlier interview on the Richard Syrett Show, the Stephenville Lights phenomenon enters the litany of UFO sightings receiving a “no comment” from our government and military officials.

Journalists world-wide are invited to call-in to speak with Ms. Joiner.

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Monday, January 09, 2012

UFO NEWS | Western White House UFO incident Echoed in New Stephenville Lights Video

By Jon Kelly
Vancouver UFO Examiner
1-7-11

New video featuring a Dublin, Texas UFO raises fascinating questions concerning what MUFON’s study of an FAA radar report described as an enormous object that flew within ten miles of President George W. Bush’s Western White House on January 8, 2008. The video soundtrack, produced in Vancouver, BC, features a new interview with Angelia Joiner, former staff writer for the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, who spoke with the Secret Message Report on the eve of the fourth anniversary of what was then described as the most significant mass sighting since the 1997 Phoenix Lights.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

'New' Aerial Activity Over Stephenville, Texas Sets Off Personal Alerts!

By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
11-19-09

One of the consequences of the major UFO event that took place over Stephenville, Texas in January of last year was the creation of a “personal early warning system.” Now before you start to envision some radar-activated contrivance, sounding area alarms and alerting the media, relax—as it’s nothing so sophisticated; however, it is effective!

Many of the direct witnesses, and or other people involved in what has became known as The Stephenville Incident banded together to form an “early warning group.” That is to say, in the event that another “like occurrence” took place in the skies in or around Erath County, no one wanted to get caught with their pants down.

The idea was/is that if an unidentified craft, or for that matter anything unusual takes place, people on the list would receive & send text alerts to ensure as many eyes on the sky as possible. This alert was employed Tuesday night when military jets were scrambled!

Ironically, yours truly was corresponding with Sherry Boardman (The Joiner Report) a resident of Stephenville, when she received an alert and rushed outside; she reported:

“We've been outside after own area alert system kicked in when about 12 jets were scrambled in the area. Two of them and a copter just went back over my house toward the Mineral Wells base. Exciting!”

It’s important to note that after the UFO events over Stephenville last year, there was major military aerial activity after the fact!! Accordingly, when the residents of the area see this kind of activity, it gets everyone’s hackles up.

Interestingly, we (The UFO Chronicles) did receive a UFO report in the area for yesterday the 18th, which will be published posthaste.

In the mean time, direct eyewitness to The Stephenville Incident (last year) and local resident/businessman, Steve Allen reported the following:

"Not sure what was going on. We went outside as soon as our chain alert and watched. I spotted some jets WAY off from where I was but this is what others reported.

6:37pm from Xxxx: Two full squadrons of F16s in the air headed SW from Carswell.

7:09pm from Xxxx: Really heavy air traffic at Carswell.

7:13pm from Xxxx: Hearing the afterburners of jets scrambling. 4 jets at a time
leaving, maybe 12 in the air.

7:17pm from Xxxxx: Four jets are now in Comanche and are dropping flares.

7:44pm from Xxxxx: Four of the jets are headed back to Carswell.

7:48pm from Xxxx: The sky is full of traffic low and hot.

7:50pm from Xxxx: A chopper is now up in the air.

7:52pm from Xxxx: Two more F16s in the air.

7:54pm from Xxxx: Two choppers coming in from the SW moving to the NW.

7:55pm from Xxxx: The chopper is flying without lights.

8:30pm from Xxxxx: Two jets are headed back to base. One of them shot out at least 12 flares at the same time. I have never seen that many released before.

Will update you if I hear anything else."

Updates to follow as the story develops . . ..

See Also:

Radar Reports Confirm Eye Witness Accounts of Stephenville UFO!

Stephenville UFO: The Initial Reports

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Anniversary of 'Stephenville UFO Incident' Passes without Fanfare

Editor's Note: With all the hubbub and erroneous reporting about John Greenewald's new web-site (another) housing the Air Force's Project Blue Files, it seems for the first time, the anniversary of what is now known as The Stephenville Lights has come and gone with nary a peep. In that vein we present some of the original reports that came out after the events of January 8, 2008 in and around the town of Stephenville, Texas–FW

Possible UFO Sighting

By ANGELIA JOINER
Stephenville Empire Tribune
1-10-08

Four area residents witness mysterious object, lights in Selden sky

Steve Allen, Mike Odom and Lance Jones were out admiring a beautiful Texas sunset Tuesday evening when they saw something none of them can explain.

Allen called it an unidentified flying object. And, because he's been a private pilot for more than 30 years, he has a little more experience judging air speeds and distances than most.

“We all flipped out,” Allen said. “I didn't sleep a wink last night.”

Allen was at the home of Mike Odom in Selden about 6:15 p.m. when they suddenly noticed flashing lights about “3,500 feet above ground level,” he said.

“The ship wasn't really visible and was totally silent, but the lights spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide,” Allen said. “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 said the lights were not those of a normal aircraft. He said they were more like strobe lights, and while they were all watching, the lights reconfigured themselves from a single horizontal line into two sets of vertical lights.

“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.”

Allen said they were all scratching their heads and talking about what it could have been, when approximately 10 minutes later, the object flew overhead again.

“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.”

“I was asking, “Are you guys seeing that?” Allen said. . . .

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

"I Always Thought People That Said They Saw UFOs Were Crazy"

By Angelia Joiner
The Abilene Reporter News
2-2-09

Mysterious objects reported in skies

Speculation abounds as to why unknown objects continue to fly in the skies over Erath County.

Slightly more than a year after the first report of mysterious objects, now known as Stephenville Lights, more witnesses are coming forth. Walnut Springs resident Matt Collins and his mother, Sharla, and sister Ashlee have all said they have witnessed bright lights in the sky that defy explanation.

On Thursday Matt said he and his sister were returning to their home on FM 203 shortly after 7 p.m. He said they had just been talking about the Stephenville sightings when his sister pointed and said, "'Look at that,'" Collins said. "I thought she was kidding at first because we had just been talking about the Stephenville sightings."

"My sister saw three light sets but by the time I located them there was only one. The lights would come on and stay on for about 20 seconds. Then it would go off and reappear a little to the right or left of where it was."

Matt said the air traffic route for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is near his home so he is accustomed to the presence of commercial and private aircraft.

Matt said the object appeared about 25 to 30 degrees off the horizon in the northwest sky toward Stephenville. He said he could definitely see a dark mass between the sets of lights.

"I'm not sure how close or far away it was," Matt said. "It could have been over Chalk Mountain. But, it was definitely in the direction of Stephenville."

Then on Saturday it was back. This time it was about 9:30 p.m., shortly after Matt appeared on the WB 33 (KDAF-TV of Dallas/Fort Worth) news discussing the sighting he had witnessed two nights before.

"I ran in the house and got my sister and woke up my mom," Matt said. He also took video footage of the incident, he said.

Sharla said she was amazed.

"I always thought people that said they saw UFOs were crazy," Sharla said. "Now, I think there is definitely something out there that we don't know about."

The family said the object was visible for about fifteen minutes and had a red center but that the outside of the light changed from red to yellow, to white and bright orange.

CNN called Matt on Monday and made arrangements to show the film he took in a future broadcast.

Apparently, the Collinses were not the only ones to see the objects.

On the same night, Cody and Carrie Tedford and their uncle Dwayne Clover were turning right off Loop 377 South in Stephenville returning to their home in Hamilton.

Cody said he caught something out of the corner of his eye and told his uncle to look out the back window.

Clover said his 5-year-old niece riding in the back seat with him could also see the object and made comments like, "Wow! Look at that."

They agreed the object was fairly low in the skies but estimated it could have been 60 degrees from the horizon and then made a slow descent to about 25 degrees.

"At first it appeared to be just sitting there hovering," Clover said. "But that might have been because it was moving toward us and we couldn't tell that."

Cody said he thought it was over the courthouse and moving toward the City Limits bar on U.S. 377.

"We thought it was landing," Clover said.

All said they saw a double row of horizontal lights.

Clover said he likes to watch planes and he works at a place where helicopters take off and land often, so he was sure it was not one of those types of aircraft.

"I don't know what it was. We weren't frightened," Clover said. "We were just watching it, trying to figure out what it was and it didn't fit for anything I knew. It was a clear descent and moving slowly and close enough to the ground to make you think it was landing."

A reporter from WB 33 said the Bosque County Sheriff's Office dispatcher received four calls reporting something unusual.

Two people in the Abilene area also reported sightings to the Mutual UFO Network Web site.

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