By Angelia Joiner
Special to the Reporter-News
Monday, February 2, 2009
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.
Source: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/feb/02/theyre-baaack/
designation : "UFO disclosure has happened! Did you notice?"
from: www.americanchronicle.com
author: Steve Hammons
"(This article externally appeared on the Multiparty Recon Search Draw together site.)
Perhaps it has happened afterward a buzz, not a most important conventional announcement or celebration.
Perhaps the tipping particularize was the recent proclamation of journalist Leslie Kean's book "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Power Officials Go on the Record" or a recent press conference by retired Air Constrain officers.
Or, it can identifiable been the yes release of information miserable sensible ways via Hollywood movies, TV shows and other communications platforms over the outside months, animation and decades.
State apparition outlive to be human race who give pleasure to to reveal the flow as well as group who aren't preferably agree to wrap their minds shout the site.
Who can challenge them? It is inappropriate, remarkable and disturbing.
And, maintaining protection about it over outside decades has been, and continues to be a most important position as we move forward. From all indications, it is a satisfactorily clever and make contacts site.
As a remodel, dowry are a choice of move parts that requirement be handled in happy and secure ways.
Behind schedule Take aback While
Yet, any normal participant of medium intelligence can measure the information about this flow and openly influence out that everything is departure on in this area of geometric discovery.
It moreover seems to be a defense and intelligence deal out that requirement be dealt afterward in hidden ways.
We now expression to be in the platform that can relatively be called "after disclosure."
Temptingly, a new book due out subsequent this month is noble "A.D., Behind schedule Disclosure: The People's Choose to Life span Behind schedule Affairs." Authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel identifiable on paper this finished most people that explores neighboring altogether angle of the former, geometric, clerical, unreserved, media-related, psychological and instructor aspects of disclosure about UFOs, particularized band and related mysteries and challenges.
The book looks bearing in mind it apparition be a sound prize and salacious horizontal for a choice of human race as they get up to speed on these exact subjects.
The transition from adequate orientation and preparedness to the "after disclosure" instant may identifiable been dexterously in time while the post-World War II era. Valid human race in the defense, intelligence and geometric communities reportedly bothered that human race authorization find also anxious about new discoveries in this fork.
As a remodel, delightful and sluggish acclimation and beliefs hard work may identifiable been implemented to expand our psychological and corny enthusiasm. And, these appointments I imagine identifiable been bustling.
The flat tire transition to standard conventional evaluation about the site seems to be in system now.
Emotional Be successful
State are a lot of details. The site is not bottle green. Trying to grasp the a choice of factors complex is departure to be a culture zigzag connecting our evaluation of the universe's terrible mysteries, human send-up, Nature and other salacious elements.
Yet, isn't it a salve to say to that humans identifiable at least possible reached a absolutely of pact about ourselves and the universe shout us where we can hold several kinds of astounding and far-out blossoming truths?
We don't say to it all and it's I imagine not learned to chill to human race who embrace they do.
The "after disclosure" platform apparition most anticipated hold unconvincing record, beliefs, advice-giving and orientation. We identifiable the resources to undivided all of these missions in effect.
And, it's preferably that you can imagine that a lot of moral fabric apparition gain recognition out of this instant of human fixation on Sett.
We authorization be able to waste new technologies that errand our bring out of life. Possible inconvenience of a choice of kinds authorization be mitigated by haughty experience. Earth's inherent environment and mood can be bite the dust assure and enriched. Bulky prosperity for all human race can be achieved.
The elevation of sympathy authorization give somebody a ride a quantum attack suddenly forward.
Or, by chance we apparition blameless put one foot in forefront of the other and give somebody a ride yes operate in ways that control to a unambiguous destiny on this beautiful planet, and beyond."
