Update on UFO Sightings in Texas

The military now says it was mistaken when it said it had no aircraft deployed over Erath County on the date that dozens reported seeing UFOs near Stephenville, about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Ten F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations between 6 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the Brownwood military operating area, which includes Erath County.

This doesn’t imply impropriety, but it is suspicious. I realize the military is big and communication isn’t always perfect. With that said, you’d figure that a spokesmen for the 301st Fighter Wing, which the 457th is attached to and operates out of the same base as, would be able to figure out that this was false:

Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.

The sightings took place on January 8, they released this information today, January 23. It took them 15 days to figure out that they’re previous statement was incorrect. Or, as it most likely the case, it took them a long time to correct information they knew was false.

That time delay breeds questions. From the Air Forces’ own statement, we can assume that at least 11 people (10 pilots and one on the ground) knew that there were fighter jets in the area of the sightings. In fact, they were in the same area, on the same day, at the same time of the sightings. It took them 15 days to articulate this?

I doubt it. The military wanted to sit on the information, wait and see, and they saw that many witnesses, including a licensed pilot and police officer, reported seeing F-16’s. Suddenly they recalled that they had a ‘training mission’ that day…in the same vicinity and at the same time.

Since this story now has a fresh leash on life, I’ll leave you with two eyewitness accounts of the craft:

A hunter:

He said he watched it through his rifle’s telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.

A licensed pilot for over 30 years:

“The ship wasn’t really visible and was totally silent, but the lights spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide,” Allen said. “The lights went from corner to corner. It was directly above Highway 67 traveling towards Stephenville at a high rate of speed - about 3,000 miles per hour is what I would estimate.”

Allen said the lights were not those of a normal aircraft. He said they were more like strobe lights, and while they were all watching, the lights reconfigured themselves from a single horizontal line into two sets of vertical lights.

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“The two sets were approximately one-quarter of a mile apart,” Allen said. “Then they turned into dirty burning flames. The flames were not blue. They were white in color. About two seconds later it disappeared completely.”

Allen said they were all scratching their heads and talking about what it could have been, when approximately 10 minutes later, the object flew overhead again.

“This time it came from the west traveling east towards Glen Rose,” Allen said. “And it was about two or three miles south of 67, and two military jets, possibly F16s, were in pursuit.”