Multiple UFO Sightings in Stephenville, Texas

January 15th,2008 Residents of Stephenville, Texas are staring ominously at the night skies after several dozen reports of UFO sightings last week. Witnesses -- including a pilot -- all claim they saw what appeared to be a massive craft with strange flashing lights, traveling lower and faster than an airplane. Others say they spotted jet fighters chasing after the object.

As expected, federal officials say there is a "logical explanation," such as light reflecting off passing planes, for the Jan. 8 incident. But residents of this town, about 60 miles southwest of Fort Worth, remain unconvinced. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts," pilot Steve Allen was quoted as saying.

Residents in the small town insisted they saw a large object with bright lights flying low and fast but there were no photographs of them. "They were really, really bright," said Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan. Dozens of others, including a pilot, a teacher and business owners in that area, reported seeing the same thing. The object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes, said Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth. Lewis explained that lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun. The U.S. Air Force said it had no planes in the area that night. "It wasn't an airplane," Gaitan said. "It wasn't a meteor, because it wouldn't have been bouncing around. It wasn't just one light." He said the lights were like nothing on Earth. The phenomenon has attracted the attention of UFO fans, who plan to descend on Stephenville on Saturday.