Stephenville UFO

I'm not a believer in little green men and flying saucers per se, but I did see something that sounds very similar to what is described in this story when I was a kid.

My dad, a former air force and commercial pilot for 30+ years, called the family outside one night to see something.

There was some sort of "craft" circling our house in a huge diameter (my parents' house is out in the country so it's easy to spot things in the night sky.)

Anyway, it was moving at an incredible rate of speed -- far too fast for an aircraft -- and making no noise at all. It was too dark to make out its shape but it had multi-colored lights that would change formation every few seconds -- just as described in the article.

My dad had been watching it for awhile before he called us out. It circled 2-3 more times after we came out to see it, then disappeared into the night sky.

Again, I'm not a UFO guy, but I don't know what the hell it was. And the fact that my dad, a career pilot, couldn't explain it -- and he's got an explanation for everything -- gave me chills as a kid, and still kinda freaks me out to this day.
 
Next = I woke up in the field and my butt hurt.
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I thought with the populaity and availability of camera phones and other devises these claims were supposed to die.
 
So no one is Stephenville has a camera-phone?!?!? Fuunny how "sightings" are always in rural, farming communities. I guess the aliens figure aggie folk are less likely to question anal probing...
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my distinct memory from that event is that the object was really large. we lived on a cul-de-sac and i swear it blocked out the sky. again, just weird recollections.
 
It didn't block out the sky. It was pretty good-sized though. Keep in mind, we didn't live that far from a naval(?) air base.
 
NPR article - there is an audio link near the top of the page. I heard this yesterday; it's a good piece.

Paraphrasing from what I recall in the piece: "If you moved your finger across the horizon, you still wouldn't be able to trace as fast as it was moving."

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Reporter: "The US Air Force says they did not have any planes in the area."

Resident: "They can say what they want - we saw some fighter jets trying to catch up to it & there was no chance they would."

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I called a friend that lives here in Austin & who is from up there; his Mom saw it. He is not prone to making **** like this up & she independantly had a recount of it before hearing from anyone else about it (no mass piling on).

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I'm very skeptical of this kind of thing. Very. But a conversation with my Dad from last night has me questioning my own personal realities...

Me: "So, um... did you hear about the UFO sighting up in Stephenville?"

Dad (who lives in Western Virginia & has been retired from the Air Force for about 15 years now... was a Squadron Cmdr. in Security Police & periodically did some work @ "The Box", aka Nellis AFB): "Yeah, I got a call."

Me: "Um... what's that mean?"

Dad: "Can't tell you."

Interjection. I've asked my Dad about 2 times before about what's out there @ A-51 & he's given me answers that made me think he was playing it up just to sound all "Twilight Zone-y" & laugh it off.

Me: "Seriously. From what I heard on the NPR bit, it was moving fast & the USAF said they didn't have anything in the region."

Dad: "Well, it might have been 'Black Work' (aka 'Skunk Works') with jets along to take photos."

Me: "The witnesses said it moved faster than they could point @ it & they DID see what they said were AF jets very unsuccessfully trying to catch up to it. One of the witnesses was a private pilot & he said a distance that takes him about 20 minutes to fly in his Cessna took this thing about 10 seconds..."

Dad: "Um... I'm not really gonna tell you much, OK? Beyond classified. Drop it.

Did you know I've got Nat's 2 cats @ my house now? She's not in good health... " [cue 2 minute conversation about my Step Grandmother in law's recent requirement to get on oxygen @ home].

Me: "You know, that was a pretty lame attempt @ a topic shift away from the Stephenville sightings."

Dad: "Son, thre's just some things I can't really talk about. Maybe some day when I'm about gone."

Me: "What if you're all alzheimer'ed out & can't remember anything?"

Dad: "Mission accomplished. Gotta run - need to put the steaks on the grill... later, bye."

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& Believe me, I'm probably ******* up by posting this here. I wish this had been posted on Quack's, however even there it would still get the "Cartman with a sattelite up his butt" treatment & that was to be expected.

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My wife's parents live out on lake Brownwood. Their hired hand was outside that night and called to tell them about seeing a UFO and fighter jets go by. They gave him a hard time until they heard about it on the news the next day.
 
Sooooooooooooo....this thing was moving at the speed of light, with usaf jets pursuing it on afterburners, and no mention of sonic booms?
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Given the distances involved and the relative short period of time man has been "man" in the modern evolutionary sense (meaning, of much interest to another sentient species and possessing the means to alert said species to or presence even unintentionally), I have to say, those aliens got here fuckin' FAST. Like "faster than the speed of light" fast. Pretty impressive.

Maybe thy have a big colony floatin' around, saw Voyager buzz past them in a one in a trillion shot, and decided to listen for old TV and radio broadcasts and tracked us down that way.
 
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