Residents of Rural Texas Town Abuzz Over Dozens of Reported UFO Sightings

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.

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It's a bird,no..it's a plane..could it be the Ron Paul Blimp?..

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If this thing was moving at a high rate of speed, with fighter jets chasing it, how can they tell it was a mile long and half a mile wide? These texans need to lay off the chewin' tobacco... ;o)

Last seen with a trail of cash flowing into it from local white supremecists, the U.F.O. displayed a brief message before it disappeared from the night sky which read "We thank you for your donations and plan on keeping every cent, but really, really now, it was just a ghost writer "

It could've been the bloated IRS blimp trying to shoot down the Ron Paul blimp...

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Texas UFO Mystery Solved?

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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ―
The mystery of the Stephenville UFOs might have been solved.

Today the Air Force Reserve said on the night of January 8, ten F-16 fighter jets were conducting training flights in the area. Many of the suspected UFO sightings took place on that night.

Originally, the 301st Fighter Wing at the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base said none of its jets were in the area that night.

In a statement today, a Wing spokesman says they made a mistake and that jets were flying in the Stephenville area that evening. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs.

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.

UFO sightings have been reported all over the world for centuries, including the infamous 1897 crash of a cigar-shaped object near the tiny Texas town of Aurora. While some thought it was a hoax, decades later investigators from UFO groups said evidence suggests the disfigured pilot's body buried that day was an alien.

cbs11tv.com - Texas UFO Mystery Solved?

And now we know the rest of the story..or do we?

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There were a bunch of sightings about 16 miles from here about two months ago.
My son and several other people who stopped off the usual places that day (grocery store, Wmart, gas station, etc.), claim several people talked about it to them.
But there was nothing in the news. When I did google it, I found about 30 yrs ago, there were a bunch of sightings too that the news did cover.
We figure it's new technology being tested since there's an airforce base just the other side of Boise.

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That is what I chalk up 99.99999% of sightings to...

Just because YOU don't know what it is doesn't mean NOBODY knows what it is...

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