Tag: Stephenville UFO

Perhaps you remember the reports of amazing UFO sightings coming out of Stephenville, Texas? Well the Los Angeles Times has decided to cover the event ... 6 months late.

Back in January, the Roadside Resort reported on the incident in which dozens of Stephenville locals spotted strange lights hovering over town. The story made international headlines, turning the dairy town into a UFO sensation. T-shirts proclaimed Erath County the new Roswell.

Apparently, the Times is just now getting wind of the event. However, I do have to thank them for letting us all know that UFO witness Steve Allen and former education reporter Angelia Joiner have since launched a Web site keeping track of the phenomenon. You can find it at stephenvillelights.com.

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Two weeks after dozens of Stephenville, Texas, residents reported seeing strange objects hovering in the night sky, the Navy has announced "our bad!"

Maj. Karl Lewis, spokesman for the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, issued a press release today saying he was mistaken in his original report in which he insisted there were no military exercises in the area on Jan. 8, the night locals reportedly saw the unusual lights.

Lewis, who had originally said he was "90 percent sure" the lights people saw were caused by the setting sun reflecting off a commercial jet, now admits that "10 F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations from 6 to 8 p.m. ... in the Brownwood Military Operating Area (MOA), which includes the airspace above Erath County." An "internal communications oversight" was supposedly the cause of the original misinformation. ... Continued

Stephenville, Texas, a town of about 15,000 residents — including, irrelevantly, singer-songwriter Jewel — has recently made international headlines for its extraordinary UFO sighting.

Dozens of witnesses have come forward, claiming to have seen intensely bright lights hovering over town the evening of Tuesday the 8th. The general consensus among locals is that the lights remained for about 5 minutes before tearing off at a phenomenal speed.

Several witnesses claim the lights were followed by two fighter jets, although, predictably, the region's military bases report that none of their planes were in the area at the time.

Witnesses describe the object as having multiple lights and flying very low to the ground. Some have compared the descriptions to that of the infamous Phoenix Lights (Weird Arizona, p.66) that made headlines in 1997.

Veteran pilot Steve Allen spotted it over the nearby town of Selden and described it as "bigger than a Wal-Mart," although we're left to wonder if he was referring to a regular or a Super. ... Continued

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