Weird, Wild Stuff (UFO-Style)

[Rebel]

FORT WORTH, Texas  —  Fighter jets were training nearby the night dozens of Stephenville-area residents reported seeing a UFO this month, Air Force Reserve officials said Wednesday, backtracking on earlier statements.

The announcement did little to satisfy residents of Texas dairy country who swear that what they saw in the sky Jan. 8 was no airplane.

Some said it even bolstered their claims, because several people reported seeing at least two fighter jets chasing an object.

"This supports our story that there was UFO activity in that area," said Kenneth Cherry, the Texas director of the Mutual UFO Network, which took more than 50 reports from locals at a meeting last weekend. "I find it curious that it took them two weeks to 'fess up. I think they're feeling the heat from the publicity."

Officials at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth initially said none of their planes had been in the area, but on Wednesday they said 10 F-16s were there that day.

The officials said they were mistaken and wanted to set the record straight "in the interest of public awareness."

Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the base, declined to comment on the nature of the military training or say whether it took place on other days.

Lewis had said earlier this month that residents might have seen an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes and reflections from the setting sun. On Wednesday, he said he should not have speculated about the reported sightings.

From well-respected business owners to a county constable, several dozen people say they saw a flying object that was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said its lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane.

"I guarantee that what we saw was not a civilian aircraft," Steve Allen, a pilot and freight company owner, said Wednesday.

The planes' training area in the Brownwood Military Operating Area includes Stephenville's Erath County, but Allen said it does not include the airspace where he saw the object. Also, Jan. 8 was not the only day sightings were reported.

Anne Frazor, who owns a fabric store in Stephenville, about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, said many in town have seen military aircraft zoom overhead from time to time as part of training operations. But she said that wasn't what she saw Jan. 8.

"I couldn't begin to say what it was, but to me it wasn't planes," Frazor said.

Since the reported sightings two weeks ago, the 17,000-resident city is having fun with the international publicity.

Some high-schoolers made T-shirts depicting a flying saucer beaming up a cow with the messages: "Stephenville: the new Roswell" and "They're here for the milk!"

Several stores put new messages on their marquees, including "Aliens welcome."

This week Tarleton State University is even hosting a lecture by a UFO researcher on the U.S. government's secret response to UFOs, based on previously classified documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

The U.S. Air Force says it has not investigated UFO sightings since 1969 when it ended Project Blue Book, which examined more than 12,600 reported UFO sightings — including 700 that were never explained.

That program started a few months after the 1947 crash near Roswell, N.M., of an aircraft the government said was a top-secret weather balloon but others have claimed was an alien spacecraft.

"What we want is the government to admit there are UFOs and what they know about them," Cherry said.

Mystery May Be Solved for Texas Town Abuzz Over UFO Sightings

[Freeper]

It was just swamp gas reflecting off of Venus. Look here please........

[Lauri]

thats some kind of lame... do they still think people will freak out and jump out of buildings if we find out there are aliens?


more than likely, we'll just get mad and vote a lot of them out of office for treating us like kids.

[Lord Undies]

thats some kind of lame... do they still think people will freak out and jump out of buildings if we find out there are aliens?


more than likely, we'll just get mad and vote a lot of them out of office for treating us like kids.

You must notta seen the "Twilight Zone" episode 'To Serve Man'.  It was a cookbook.

[Lauri]

thats some kind of lame... do they still think people will freak out and jump out of buildings if we find out there are aliens?


more than likely, we'll just get mad and vote a lot of them out of office for treating us like kids.

You must notta seen the "Twilight Zone" episode 'To Serve Man'.  It was a cookbook.

i didnt see that one, no...   but it seems plausible for our current group of politicians..

[Wretched Excess]

thats some kind of lame... do they still think people will freak out and jump out of buildings if we find out there are aliens?


more than likely, we'll just get mad and vote a lot of them out of office for treating us like kids.

the liberals will try to tax them, and we conservatives will demand that scientists find a way to build a "space fence".

[Chris_]

thats some kind of lame... do they still think people will freak out and jump out of buildings if we find out there are aliens?


more than likely, we'll just get mad and vote a lot of them out of office for treating us like kids.

Well, if that is what it takes to vote the aliens out of office, I am all for it.

[Crazy Horse]

The Dummies speak

conspirator (626 posts)      Fri Jan-25-08 11:18 AM
Original message
Pilot Proves Air Force Explanation not Viable 
 Pilot and Stephenville eyewitness Steve Allen has now slam-dunked the case of The U.S. military cover up at Stephenville. How? Simple-it's not in the military practice zone. The U.S. lied. In response the U.S. Government saying the great and sharp people in Stephenville Texas suffered a mass hallucination.
The real mass hallucination is the concoction the U.S. Government put out to cover up the Stephenville UFO story to all the people of the world, saying the witnesses saw many jets appearing as one object which could have resembled a UFO. This has proven to be a lie. Stephenville is out of range of a military practice area.

Military jets are not allowed to perform practice routines over people's houses in residential neighborhoods. The witnesses said the object made no noise-whereas a squadron of jets makes very loud noises, and jets cannot hover in formation over a small town.

Their explanations are so idiotic only an idiot would believe them. Whatever the Air Force says about this incident is by definition without merit because the U.S. Air force no longer studies UFOs.

http://www.ufocasebook.com/2008/airforcenotviable.html

 
some don;t buy it

ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts)       Fri Jan-25-08 11:26 AM
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3. LIved in many places where this was routine
 "Military jets are not allowed to perform practice routines over people's houses in residential neighborhoods. The witnesses said the object made no noise-whereas a squadron of jets makes very loud noises, and jets cannot hover in formation over a small town."

Not dropping bombs or tight combat type manuevers, but in formation, both low and high altitude.

The only video that I've seen was unimpressive - nothing more than points of lights.

[Lauri]

thats some kind of lame... do they still think people will freak out and jump out of buildings if we find out there are aliens?


more than likely, we'll just get mad and vote a lot of them out of office for treating us like kids.

Well, if that is what it takes to vote the aliens out of office, I am all for it.

 

[Chris_]

It's all true...I talked to them. They were just lost and wanted directions. Everything is OK.

[Uhhuh35]

The UFO's are probably some sort of Skunk Works project. We won't know anything about them for another 30 years or more, if ever. I'm sure Military R/D is working on something so advanced that people who saw it would think it's from another planet or dimension.

The first jets had people confused at first.

[Rebel]

We've actually been having this discussion at my sports board:

http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=276292

Seems it could have been an Osprey that was seen.