Monday, September 23, 2013

UFO SIGHTINGS: Texas Ranks in Top Five



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UFO Over Milano, Texas (Artist's Rendition)

Reported UFO activity rose last year, with major sightings in Texas

By JAMES RAGLAND
www.dallasnews.com
9-22-13

      The night was clear, a perfect backdrop for the strange, floating object that lit up the sky.

Two witnesses, jailers at the Johnson County Correctional Facility in Cleburne, described it as triangular in shape with a dark surface and a series of circular lights. They said it hovered above them as they talked in the parking lot.

“The object flew over them very slowly, appearing to be going only about 5 mph,” according to an account released by the California-based Mutual UFO Network, a nonprofit group of UFO sleuths.

That sighting, another in North Texas and one in Central Texas were among the “strongest 10 cases” from 2012 that a MUFON science review board determined “cannot be identified as any known object.”

But the peculiar sightings aren’t just cropping up in our own backyard — the whole Lone Star State is a hotbed of UFO activity.

“Texas is one of the top five states every month for UFOs,” said Roger Marsh, a MUFON spokesman.

He attributed the high volume of sightings to the state’s large population and its many airports and military installations. Most sightings turn out to be readily identifiable, sometimes even a Chinese lantern.

Across the country, MUFON reported a record 7,182 sightings of unidentified flying objects last year — a 27 percent increase over the year before. Texas trailed only California in the number of sightings. . . .
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