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Recent UFO Crash investigation South of Las Vegas

I was wondering if I would find something interesting to post today. The following video is an interesting UFO Investigation.

Friday, August 8, 2008 Posted by | Las Vegas, Military Cover Up, UFO Investigation, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

EVOte on The Sun!


Q: Do you believe in extra-terrestrial life?
Yes
81%

No
13%

Not sure…phone home!
6%


(Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1336870.ece)

Friday, June 27, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, Military Sighting, Ministry of Defence, UFO Sighting, United Kingdom | Leave a Comment

THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the skies

A SHAKEN soldier told last night how he saw THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the skies above his military barracks.

Corporal Mark Proctor was among three squaddies who spotted the objects while out on night patrol.

He filmed them on his mobile phone and reported the close encounter to Army top brass.

Ministry of Defence experts were studying his report and video yesterday — after ordering Mark and his pals NOT to say anything else about the incident.

(Full Article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1336870.ece)

Thursday, June 26, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, Military Sighting, Ministry of Defence, UFO Sighting, United Kingdom | Leave a Comment

Erath County Law Enforcement Officers compile drawings

By ANGELIA JOINER – Stephenville Lights Reporter

Note: The following composite and narrative came to this reporter through Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan.

An area law enforcement officer, not wishing to be identified at this time, writes the account in his own words. The sighting date was January 8, 2008, and the time was between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. according to Constable Gaitan.

(Full Article + Drawings: http://www.stephenvillelights.com/)

Sunday, March 30, 2008 Posted by | Angelia Joiner, Military Cover Up, Stephenvill, UFO Cover up, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

UFO Report Database Opening

Nashville, TN (OPENPRESS) March 14, 2008 — Bob Bain owner of The Paranormal Forum & Unexplained Phenomena announced with great excitement of the groundbreaking new UFO Report Database powered by a solid leader in database software called vBulletin. The UFO Reports Database goes back through the entirety of the 1970’s up to the current date. This one of a kind Database has been sorely missed and desired by many UFO watchers, which until now had no database to report their sightings or experiences to. The UFO Report Database also allows other individuals the right to correspond with the original reporter of the incident. Unregistered users are fully welcomed by the Unexplained Phenomena Community as registration is not a requirement. It is believed by management that unregistered users have just as much to offer & if the UFO Report Database denied reporting privileges to unregistered users then the Database would be missing a large portion of the UFO sighting spectrum.

The Unexplained Phenomena Community as a whole is a group of dedicated individuals, investigators of various fields of the Unexplained and they take seriously their role as a purveyor of information to those who require a professional community to discuss topics, report incidents, that are generally seen as being totally outside the box of normality.

It is the opinion of the founder that science is 70% theory and 30% factual. Bob Bain claims, “Scientists and Skeptics alike enjoy placing every Unexplained Phenomenon into the same type of box, the kind they can easily explain away. The problem is that the easiest answers to questions are more than likely the wrong answers to the presented question.”

It is true that science is an ever revolving door of theories. What once was thought science fiction one day becomes science factual the next. Science has answers only for a short period of time, and then the answers change as knowledgebase expansively grows to new heights.

“UFOs are real, there are ours and then there are theirs.” Mr. Bain continues, “Ours, I believe was reversed engineered from theirs. As we further our advancements into reverse engineering their craft – the more advanced our craft will become. When I asked my cousin who at that time was a high ranking Air Force official about his knowledge of UFOs’, explaining the things I personally have witnessed, he said, ‘I can’t speak about ours’.”

“Theirs, to quote my cousin who is now a retired Air Force official “they’re crazy”, and knowing him as I do – he meant it as in “Crazy technology, wild, advanced technology”. But he was not allowed to really talk about it beyond giving small hints that a person would have to decode. Even to this day he can’t speak on what he worked on, or seen.”

Bob Bain has already filed one of his personal experiences in the UFO Report Center – to read his account of what was seen on December 13th of 2000, go over to the Unexplained Phenomena community and look through the UFO Reports for the year 2000, in the month of December.

You can find the UFO Report Database at http://uforeports.unexplainedphenomena.net

(Source: http://www.theopenpress.com)
(UFO Report Database
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 Posted by | Bob Bain, Covert World, Military Cover Up, Texas, UFO Database, UFO Reports | 2 Comments

A 10/9/97 letter from Sen. John McCain to a constituent about the so-called Phoenix Lights is making the Internet rounds (at http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/02/senator-john-mccain-tasked-air-force-to.html) just in time for next month’s anniversary commemoration in Scottsdale. But to the amazement of Dr. Lynn Kitei, no one has bothered to press the de facto Republican presidential nominee for an updated response.

Kitei is a Phoenix physician whose world view went sideways when an apparent V-shaped UFO surprised untold numbers of Arizonans on the evening of March 13, 1997. Kitei had seen and even photographed strange lights in the night sky two months earlier, but the mass sightings on that date ultimately drew her into the limelight as a lead investigator.

Kitei’s work wound up in a documentary and a book by the same name, “The Phoenix Lights.” On the 11th anniversary of that event, she’ll be unveiling an expanded version of the doc that features, among other things, a commercial airline pilot eyewitness and a 911 dispatcher who’ll reportedly reveal how police helicopters were involved in the drama.

Not unlike the Stephenville, Tex., UFO incident on Jan. 8 this year, the military initially denied it had planes in the air that night. But McCain reported to a letter writer that an official at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson assured him the lights were flares dropped by A-10s from a visiting Maryland National Guard unit, from an altitude of 15,000 feet, from roughly 9:30 to 10 p.m.

But according to Kitei’s timeline, people reported seeing the UFO from as early as 5 p.m. to as late as 2 a.m., with the bulk of the sightings rolling in from 8:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m.

The story has morphed since then, most notably with the testimony of former Arizona guv Fife Symington. In 1997, when he was still in office, Symington ridiculed the reports. Last year, he reversed himself, claimed he was an eyewitness to something “enormous and inexplicable” (see http://www.freedomofinfo.org/news/symington-story.pdf), and flatly discounted the military flares explanation.

Symington has since become a public advocate for government disclosure; in November, he introduced an international cast of likeminded pilots and aviation authorities to the National Press Club in Washington.

The media has given McCain a pass on this whopper of a national security issue that asserted itself in his own back yard. Fox News’ Chris Wallace playfully asked McCain in November if he’d ever seen a UFO during his Navy pilot career (“I can’t say that I did, but I kept looking all the time”), but clearly the MSM doesn’t have the chops for an extended conversation.

“I’m really surprised that nobody has pinned him down, or even tried to,” says Kitei. “If anything, interest in what happened has just been growing and growing. Too many people have seen and are seeing things.”

Maybe, like Symington, McCain will come out of the closet once his political career is over. In the meantime, just for the hell of it, you can reach the Senator at: John McCain 2008, P.O. Box 16118, Arlington, VA 22215, 703-418-2008.

(Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com)

Friday, February 29, 2008 Posted by | Cover up, Fife Symington, Military Cover Up, Phoenix Lights, Sen. John McCain | Leave a Comment

A 10/9/97 letter from Sen. John McCain to a constituent about the so-called Phoenix Lights is making the Internet rounds (at http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/02/senator-john-mccain-tasked-air-force-to.html) just in time for next month’s anniversary commemoration in Scottsdale. But to the amazement of Dr. Lynn Kitei, no one has bothered to press the de facto Republican presidential nominee for an updated response.

Kitei is a Phoenix physician whose world view went sideways when an apparent V-shaped UFO surprised untold numbers of Arizonans on the evening of March 13, 1997. Kitei had seen and even photographed strange lights in the night sky two months earlier, but the mass sightings on that date ultimately drew her into the limelight as a lead investigator.

Kitei’s work wound up in a documentary and a book by the same name, “The Phoenix Lights.” On the 11th anniversary of that event, she’ll be unveiling an expanded version of the doc that features, among other things, a commercial airline pilot eyewitness and a 911 dispatcher who’ll reportedly reveal how police helicopters were involved in the drama.

Not unlike the Stephenville, Tex., UFO incident on Jan. 8 this year, the military initially denied it had planes in the air that night. But McCain reported to a letter writer that an official at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson assured him the lights were flares dropped by A-10s from a visiting Maryland National Guard unit, from an altitude of 15,000 feet, from roughly 9:30 to 10 p.m.

But according to Kitei’s timeline, people reported seeing the UFO from as early as 5 p.m. to as late as 2 a.m., with the bulk of the sightings rolling in from 8:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m.

The story has morphed since then, most notably with the testimony of former Arizona guv Fife Symington. In 1997, when he was still in office, Symington ridiculed the reports. Last year, he reversed himself, claimed he was an eyewitness to something “enormous and inexplicable” (see http://www.freedomofinfo.org/news/symington-story.pdf), and flatly discounted the military flares explanation.

Symington has since become a public advocate for government disclosure; in November, he introduced an international cast of likeminded pilots and aviation authorities to the National Press Club in Washington.

The media has given McCain a pass on this whopper of a national security issue that asserted itself in his own back yard. Fox News’ Chris Wallace playfully asked McCain in November if he’d ever seen a UFO during his Navy pilot career (“I can’t say that I did, but I kept looking all the time”), but clearly the MSM doesn’t have the chops for an extended conversation.

“I’m really surprised that nobody has pinned him down, or even tried to,” says Kitei. “If anything, interest in what happened has just been growing and growing. Too many people have seen and are seeing things.”

Maybe, like Symington, McCain will come out of the closet once his political career is over. In the meantime, just for the hell of it, you can reach the Senator at: John McCain 2008, P.O. Box 16118, Arlington, VA 22215, 703-418-2008.

(Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com)

Friday, February 29, 2008 Posted by | Cover up, Fife Symington, Military Cover Up, Phoenix Lights, Sen. John McCain | Leave a Comment

Stephenville Lights Development

Breaking News – Feb. 12, 2008. Another report from Independent reporter ANGELIA JOINER!

It’s clear.
Whatever is hovering over Erath County isn’t leaving. UFO reports are pouring in. Two are from original witnesses, and two new ones are coming aboard.
This time there are pictures and video — Constable Lee Roy Gaitan made sure of it.
The following are accounts from Gaitan, Ricky Sorrells, Mac McKinnon, and a source not wishing to be identified.
Note: Gaitan’s first sighting was with his eight-year-old son on Jan. 8 when he saw a red glow that faded and then reappeared. Later he said he saw bright white lights that seemed to “bounce around in the sky” and took off at a “blazing speed”.

(Full Article: http://www.stephenvillelights.com/)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Posted by | Angelia Joiner, Military Cover Up, Stephenvill, UFO Cover up, UFO Flap, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

…CENSORSHIP AND "NEED TO KNOW"…


CENSORSHIP AND “NEED TO KNOW”

According to information obtained for this report, management at the Stephenville Empire-Tribune did not want further coverage in the paper of the sightings by local citizens of something that appeared to be highly unusual. Pressures may have been placed on newspaper management to discontinue articles on the subject.

According to the newspaper’s Web site, “The Stephenville Empire-Tribune is a mid-morning paper published six days a week by Erath Publishers, Inc., a Consolidated Southwest Media company which is owned by American Consolidated Media. The Empire-Tribune is a member of the Associated Press, Texas Press Association, West Texas Press Association and the Inland Press Association.”

Publisher Rochelle Stidham and Managing Editor Sara Vanden Berge were contacted for their comments for this report but did not immediately respond.

(Full Article: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51832)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, Texas, The Stephenville Empire-Tribune, UFO Cover up, UFO Flap | Leave a Comment

Another Stephenville Sighting!

The truth may be out there, but, when it comes to UFO stories, it is sure hard to find. Conjecture breeds conspiracy theories. Any official denial can be labeled a cover-up. In the end, it often boils down to a he-said-she-said scenario.

Such is the case in Stephenville, Texas, a small, rural community thrust into the spotlight after several unexplained disturbances in January. Though that spotlight has now faded, the town remains altered. Some members of the community want to move on; others cannot let go. And some, if you believe them, say that UFOs are still there.

According to Angelia Joiner, the reporter who wrote the original UFO stories, there was another UFO sighting on Saturday. “If the military is testing a secret military device, why do they keep doing it here?” she asked me. “If it’s not a secret why do they keep scaring the bejesus out of people?”

(Full Article: http://blog.washingtonpost.com)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, Stephenvill, UFO Cover up, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

Stephenville sighting development with Ricky Sorrells

angelia.joiner@empiretribune.com

Answers.

Ricky Sorrells just wants answers. And, in light of what he’s been through, it doesn’t seem to be a lot to ask.

Witnessing an unidentified flying object four times since the beginning of the new year, then having military aircraft whizzing over his land and disrupting his sleep and livestock, followed by a string of mysterious phone calls and in person encounters from individuals demanding he “shut up” about what he saw, and landing unexpectedly in the international spotlight, has taken a toll on the 37-year-old man accustomed to the simple life.

“If you told me a while back that I would be sitting here talking to you about UFOs I would have said, ‘No way, not in a million years,” Sorrells said. “ Now, I know for the rest of my life I’ll keep looking to find out what it was.”

Sorrells said he is receiving a lot of support from family and friends helping him to keep an eye on things. He said that support has been a great help to him.

“I’m not going to freak out or anything,” Sorrells said. “I just think the government should come forward and help us to figure out this thing. I think people should write to their congressman or something.”

Sorrells said soon after his Associated Press interview went around the world in mid-January – not only was he allegedly contacted by a Lt. Colonel telling him to keep quiet about what he saw, he was also contacted by a woman named Linda Moulton Howe.

Howe’s Web site touts: “Earthfiles is a crossroads where experts, eyewitnesses and viewers meet to share the latest updates in earth and astronomical mysteries, in-depth reports that go beyond the 6 o’clock news. Earthfiles reporter and editor, Linda Moulton Howe, is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer, investigative reporter and author who goes directly to the men and women at the forefront of science and environmental challenges and to firsthand eyewitnesses of high strangeness. Earthfiles.com received the 2006 W3 Silver Award for excellence in news category. Earthfiles.com also received the 2003 WebAward for Standard of Excellence and the 2000 Encyclopedia Britannica Award honoring Internet excellence.”

Sorrells said he vaguely remembered listening to her on a radio program years ago while on a road trip and her name clicked with him. It was the only familiar name he knew and she promised to do an investigation so he agreed not to talk to anyone else until she could make the trip from New Mexico. Howe arrived in Dublin last week and stayed with Sorrells and his family to conduct the investigation and left late last week.

“I told her everything I knew and showed her my property,” Sorrels said. “After she left, I felt I had honored my commitment with her. Things have settled down a little and I feel free to talk about the experiences I have had. I just didn’t want to do anything that would interfere with her investigation because I want the truth.”

He said the last time he saw the object he was able to get a video on his camera phone and said he has seen some other “pretty good footage” taken by others.

One night Sorrells said he had four helicopters flying at such low altitude that when a spotlight was shined up at them from Sorrells’ pickup he could see the pilot throw his arm up in front of his eyes to block the light. But there has been another strange occurrence recently on his property that leads him to believe the military is involved. It was an unexpected visitor about 1 a.m. who may have left something behind.

“I was in bed asleep,” Sorrells said. “I keep my bird dogs on the east side of my house and three others on the west side. The black lab doesn’t bark until someone comes across the cattle guard and the Catahoula doesn’t bark until she actually sees someone. They were all barking so I got up to see what was going on.”

Sorrells said he walked to his bedroom window and looked out to the top of his driveway – he saw someone.

“I went around the bed and grabbed my rifle,” Sorrells said.

His family was still sleeping, so with one hand on his gun and one hand on his backdoor knob, he peered through the window of the door to see if he could spot the intruder again.

“He had positioned himself in between the car and the pickup 40 to 50 feet from my back door,” Sorrells said. “He stood staring at me rocking back and forth. I didn’t think his feet were moving but the next morning when looking at his tracks I could tell they were.”

Sorrels said it was cold and misting rain and it was obvious the guy was “dressed for the elements with a heavy parka-like coat.”

He said he strained to see if the man carried a gun but could not see one but could clearly see the face of someone he thought to be in his late 20s or early 30s judging from the way he “walked and acted.”

“I’m trying to decide whether or not to open the door,” Sorrells said. “We’re just standing there face to face looking at each other. I’m thinking he’s dressed for the elements and the dogs are raising such a ruckus he must know he’s in danger of being caught. That’s when I realized he wanted me to see him.”

Sorrells said the trespasser had positioned himself in such a way he decided he could be vulnerable if opened his door. He thought of his family and then the man slowly turned and walked into the woods.

“He walked through an area where I’d cleared the brush so apparently he’d been there before because he knew where to go,” Sorrells said.

Sorrells said shortly after the unwelcome caller disappeared the dogs calmed down and he stayed up the rest of the night to keep watch.

Later, when walking through the woods on his property with Howe, he decided to return to a bare spot where his property line ends at a fence.

“It is washed out there and I like to go there to look for deer and turkey tracks.” Sorrells said. He said he’s an avid hunter and keeps abreast of the wildlife on his place. He said he had not been to this particular spot in about a month.

“The first thing I saw was a man’s footprint,” Sorrells said. “Ms. Howe videotaped me putting my foot beside it. The sun was going down and I saw something shiny.”

Sorrells said he walked over and picked up a bullet – a shiny new 25-06 Remington – with some dotted tarnished smudges.

“I think the man that I saw that night dropped this bullet and the tarnished spots are from the misting rain that night,” Sorrells said. “ I just think it was the military showing me they could get to me if they wanted to.”

Sorrells said he just doesn’t think a hunter poaching on his property would’ve dropped the bullet. He said he doesn’t have trouble with poachers. While he knows there is no way to prove it could have been from the same man it’s something he keeps mulling over. Sorrells returned home with the bullet in hand and took it apart to look at the powder to see if he could glean any information at all. A local gun and ammunition authority said there was no way to identify if such a bullet was from a military source.

“Talking about military powder is like talking about military gasoline,” he said. “There is no difference.”

Meanwhile, Sorrells said he and other witnesses are considering setting up a Web site to encourage people to do what they can to influence government participation in finding out about the curious, sometimes frightening, sightings.

“I’ve heard that other countries are releasing information on what they know,” Sorrells said. “We’re thinking of calling it (the site) ‘Stephenville Lights.’ Too many people have seen something not to try and continue finding out about it. We want to know what it was.”

(Source: http://www.empiretribune.com)

Thursday, February 7, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, Ricky Sorrells, Stephenvill, UFO Cover up, UFO Sighting, US Military | Leave a Comment

Pilots dispute military statement

By ANGELIA JOINER Staff Writer

At least three pilots in Stephenville disagree with the military’s press release issued Wednesday.

Steve Allen, Don “Doc” Stewart and Todd Downs all say if Stephenville and the Selden area are in the Brownwood Military Operating Area, it’s news to them.

A press release issued by Major Karl Lewis of the 301st Fighter Wing Public Affairs at the NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, stated, “Ten F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday January 8, 2008 in the Brownwood Military Operating Area (MOA), which includes the air space above Erath County.”

All three pilots say that space does not include all of Erath County. It only includes a small portion of Dublin and does not include Stephenville or the Selden area at all.

“Stephenville is 11 miles from the MOA,” Stewart said, as he pointed out the area on an aeronautical sectional map.

Downs, who is an employee at Clark Field in Stephenville, said there is a GPS fixed point located on the airport grounds that the military uses and while it’s not unusual for the jets to be in the area, he believes the press release leads people to believe that all of Erath County air space is included in the MOA and that’s incorrect. He said jets fly through on the way to the MOA.

Downs said he does not understand why the military would issue such a release two weeks after repeatedly denying the base had any planes in the area.

“I don’t understand why they would do that at all,” Downs said. “They’re not hard to know that they are there. It doesn’t make sense. I’ve seen them come by me before. They are real loud and it’s not hard to know that they are there.”

Ken Cherry, state director of Mutual UFO Network, said he thinks the military “came clean for several reasons.”

Allen and friends reported early on that F-16s were “chasing” the mysterious lights when they saw them for the second time at Selden on the evening of Jan. 8.

“We have filed freedom of information acts and that may have prompted them to make the statement,” Cherry said. “This only proves our witnesses are more reliable than the Air Force.”

Another witness, Leroy Gaitan said what he saw that night could not have been jets.

“There’s no way F-16s can maneuver like that,” Gaitan said. “I really think it’s some kind of military project or experiment. Too many people have seen things.

“I have spoken to at least one person (witness) the military has contacted,” Gaitan said.

On Thursday evening’s Larry King Live episode, James Fox, documentary filmmaker, seemed to confirm Gaitan’s information with his statement. Fox said when visiting Stephenville he spoke to one man “who, unfortunately, was not willing to go on the record,” and who claimed he was being harassed by the military.

Allen has said videos and photos are pouring in from everywhere and Cherry said his organization is analyzing many of them.

“We’ve seen a lot of pictures but they have been lens flares or odd cloud formations,” Cherry said.

When asked about the recent footage in Allen’s possession aired by Channel 11 News he said, “The video is interesting and merits further analysis. All others have been eliminated that have come to us so far.”

Steve Hudgeons, senior field investigator with MUFON, met with Allen Saturday to view the entire 14-minute video captured by a person not wishing to be identified.

Allen said a Japanese source is interested in purchasing the video.

Angelia Joiner is a staff writer for the Empire-Tribune. She can be reached at 254-965-3124 ext. 238 or angelia.joiner@empiretribune.com.

(Source: http://www.empiretribune.com/articles/2008/01/27/news/news02.txt)

Saturday, February 2, 2008 Posted by | Cover up, Military Cover Up, UFO Cover up, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

UFO Fuss: Seeing Is Believing

Can’t help but wonder about all the fuss in Stephenville, Texas. It seems that a number of residents witnessed a large, brightly lit floating object in the night sky back on January Eighth. A few people also claim to have seen military jets in pursuit. Witnesses claim the object was in excess of a mile long.

Predictably, the military concocted a fish story in an attempt to quell speculation on what people might have seen. Of all the many things our military does well, insulting the intelligence of Americans may be what it does best:

(Full Story: http://www.postchronicle.com)

Thursday, January 31, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, Stephenvill, Texas, UFO Cover up, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

UFOs are everywhere!

Probably like many of you this time of year my mind has been numbed by politics and turned to more important things, like the Jan. 8 sighting of a UFO over Texas, being pursued by military fighter jets.

Hey, forget the “man on Mars” photograph, which has been making the rounds on the Web as well as TV news; the Jan. 8 UFO sighting has people all stirred up.

Only Wednesday did the Air Force suddenly reverse itself and admit that it had fighter jets in the skies over Stephenville when dozens of residents reported seeing the object. Previously, the Air Force denied it had any jets aloft. Of course, now Air Force officials are telling the truth. Right!

Of course, the Air Force announcement did little to satisfy residents of Texas dairy country who swear that what they saw in the sky was no airplane. Some said it even bolstered their claims, because several people saw at least two fighter jets chasing the 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 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. To me, it sounded like Roswell all over again.

Several dozen people in Stephenville, many of them highly qualified professionals, 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,” said Steve Allen, a pilot and freight company owner.

I’m always fascinated by so-called UFOs, which I don’t think necessarily means alien aircraft. UFOs are simply unidentified. They could be anything.

Years past, while in college (most likely after having too many beers), the photographer of our student newspaper at Idaho State University and I started talking about UFO sightings and he dug up information showing the Arco, Idaho, area was a hotbed for UFO activity because it was near the Idaho Nuclear Engineering Laboratory in the desert, the sight of dozens of nuclear testing reactors.

Of course, I had to check this out. So, one weekend I drove the 160 miles to Arco and camped out on a Saturday just off a deserted stretch of road near the INEL site in my 4-wheel drive Jeep Wagoneer. I had a Thermos of hot coffee and warm sleeping bag and decided to watch the skies from on top of my Jeep to keep away from the rattlesnakes.

I kept a running commentary on a cassette tape machine throughout the night of things I saw in the sky and on the ground, using a powerful pair of binoculars. I held on to the tapes for years after college before finally losing them in a move. I saw a lot of things in the sky, nothing I would call an alien aircraft. There was plenty of activity, but all the flying lighted objects could easily have been airplanes or satellites.

The only exciting bit during the night – and preserved on tape – was when a coyote decided to check out the Jeep and gave a howl only a few feet away, loud enough to wake the dead. I was so startled I had to change my underwear.

So much for my UFO hunt. I may be a believer but I’m still a skeptic; and the overnight trip didn’t answer any questions.

Of course there was another time many years later on the Mendocino Coast. I was walking to work early one morning during the winter. It was still dark. Midway through my walk I heard a “whooshing” sound overhead and looked up to see a bright set of lights in the sky zipping along nearly right over me. I thought it was a low-flying jet. Then it made a perfect right angle turn from north to south, heading west out over the ocean.

I hadn’t been so startled since that coyote howled years earlier.

- Jim Smith is editor of The Daily Democrat. Write to him at The Daily Democrat, 711 Main St., Woodland, Calif., 95695; or e-mail him at news@dailydemocrat.com.

(Source: http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ourtown/ci_8093877)

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Posted by | Military Cover Up, UFO Cover up, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

Man Claims To Have Video Of Alleged UFO

Now what! The military are saying they were training above stephenville? Lies and cover up, once again. The following article is presenting a video of a shape shifting ball of light moving around. The ball had lights around it and supposedly had fighter jets chasing around. This wouldn’t be convincing too much, if I didn’t see something similar myself in the past many times in Mt. Shasta and in the Ottawa-Gatineau area.

(Full article + Video: http://cbs11tv.com)

Thursday, January 24, 2008 Posted by | Cover up, Military Cover Up, Stephenvill, Texas, UFO Sighting | Leave a Comment

   

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