Dozens of the town's residents ? including a pilot and a police officer ? said a UFO hovered over the farming community for about five minutes last Tuesday before streaking away into the night sky.

Pilot Steve Allen saw the object when he was out clearing brush off a hilltop near the town of Silden. Allen described the unidentified object as being an enormous aircraft with flashing strobe lights ? and it was totally silent.

He said the UFO sped away at more than 3,000 mph, followed by two fighter jets that were hopelessly outmaneuvered. Allen said it took the aircraft just a few seconds to cross a section of sky that it takes him 20 minutes to fly in his Cessna.

The veteran pilot said the UFO, an estimated half-mile wide and a mile long, was "bigger than a Wal-Mart."

Updated 01/30/2009 - 33 News Reports on Additional Sighting Footage

Updated 07/24/2008 - Stephenville Texas UFO Sighting Radar Incredible Evidence Clearly Shows a Military Cover Up

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Glen Schulze suspects the reason the military corrected its version of events over Stephenville, Texas, on Jan. 8 was that it knew his Freedom of Information Act requests for radar data from civilian authorities at the Federal Aviation Administration were going to expose the truth.

?Four days after our FOIAs hit the FAA, they knew we?d show they had planes all over the place that night,? Schulze says from his home in Littleton, Colo. ?They didn?t have much choice. Fort Worth radar data shows the F-16s from takeoff to landing at Carswell Air Force Base. I don?t think Carswell wanted to explain why they?d deny it.?

At age 78, Schulze brought an impressive career to bear in the Mutual UFO Network?s Special Research Report ? released July 10 ? on the UFO that surged toward restricted airspace over President Bush?s Crawford ranch seven months ago.

In the 1950s, Schulze received a special Army commendation for upgrading missile-tracking antenna sites for the White Sands Proving Grounds. The following decade, he delivered a revelation to America?s intelligence agencies by recording Soviet radar signals bouncing off the lunar surface into receivers on Antigua. Schulze went on to specialize in the radar-return analyses of air traffic accident investigations, and has been called as an expert witness by law firms handling aviation litigation.

Schulze, who co-wrote the MUFON report with Robert Powell, wasn?t sure what to expect when he filed his FOIAs with military and civilian agencies in January. What he knew was that, two days after witnesses reported seeing a huge UFO and jet fighters over rural Texas, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at Carswell Field outside Fort Worth announced there weren?t any warplanes in the area that night.

Almost two weeks later, Air Force Maj. Karl Lewis blamed an ?internal communications error? for getting it wrong. The public affairs office has been mute on this affair ever since.

What came as ?a fairly mild shock? to Schulze upon reviewing the FOIA data was how primary and secondary radar systems at Fort Worth tracked an aerial intruder ? without a transponder ? for more than an hour as it made a steady southeasterly course from the Stephenville area toward the Bush ranch.

With F-16s thundering about in the general vicinity, the thing apparently slipped below the radar coverage from 7:03 p.m. to 7:10 p.m., accelerated minutes later to 532 mph within a 30-second span, then skidded to 49 mph 10 seconds later. The narrative comes to an abrupt and tantalizing halt at 8 p.m., the end of the 4-8 p.m. data window requested by Schulze?s FOIA. At that moment, the UFO was just 10 miles from Bush?s home, and 4 miles from the edge of the no-fly zone.

?The data shows there was definitely something there that was going on a fairly straight line,? Schulze says. ?All the other planes in the air that night were turning and banking, but this was not. This was not on a chaotic path. It shows some intelligence for its ability for staying on a straight course.?

Schulze wants to know why the flight logs for 10 military aircraft separate and apart from the F-16s were censored in his FOIA. He wants to know why the F-16s encroached into civilian airspace, creating a potential safety hazard. And, of course, he wants to know what defense radar was tracking.

None of that information has been released by the military. Schulze fears FAA data acquired after 8 p.m. was auto-purged months ago, although he hopes puzzled records-keepers were curious enough to have archived that material.

Perhaps most disappointing is the lack of media interest.

?Neither the Denver Post nor the Rocky Mountain News has shown any curiosity about this story, and I?m in their backyard,? Schulze says. ?There was one article about a guy who wants to form an E.T. welcoming committee that ran on Sunday, July 13, two days after we shared our research with Larry King.?

Well, one ignores an E.T. welcoming committee at one?s own risk.

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Updated 07/11/2008 - Radar Data Supports Stephenville, Texas UFO Sightings

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) releases its full report on the Stephenville sightings of January 8th, 2008

Radar data obtained by MUFON confirms that there were Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) flying above Stephenville, Texas, January 8th, 2008, just as many eyewitnesses had reported and which made headlines worldwide.

MUFON's analysis of the radar data obtained through freedom of information act (FOIA) requests to the National Weather Service and the FAA show that unknown flying objects were on a direct course to President Bush's Crawford ranch and were separate from the known F-16 jets the same radar data confirmed were flying in the area that night.

The unknown radar targets, which did not have required identification transponders, exhibited strange flight characteristics beyond that of known civilian or military aircraft.

A press conference to explain MUFON's findings in complete detail will be held on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 11 am at the Double Tree Hotel in San Jose, California, in conjunction with MUFON's annual Symposium.

Click here for the MUFON report.

Click here for more information about the Symposium can be found at the MUFON 2008 Symposium information page.

Sighting Footage Released

This is video taken by David Caron in Stephenville Texas. It shows some interesting footage of the strange UFO blinking symbols.

05:36 - 06:08 - jet aircraft or car
06:08 - "tryin' to zoom in on it..." - videographer
06:35 - very big truck or large (cargo) aircraft
06:40 - "[you know I once] had a tripod for this" - videographer
07:08 - Video cut / return (video timestamp 9:04)
07:09 - muffled voices
07:21 - "ok...i got the camera pretty steady right now" - videographer
07:33 - intermittently loud static?
07:42 - "ain't movin' the camera it's it's" - videographer
07:51 - "I'm havin' a hard time keeping in in the frame" - videographer
07:58 - muffled
07:59 - "yeah" - videographer
08:03 - muffled voice
08:07 - "somthin' just looked funny about it and I come outside with the camcorder..." - videographer
08:12 - car/truck pass by
08:56 - car/truck pass by
09:06 - END (video timestamp 9:05 PM, JAN.19.2008

Beam of Light Footage

This footage was shot with a night vision camera by Margie Galvez in Brownwood, Texas, just outside Stephenville, Texas. It was featured on History's UFO Hunters. The beam of light was also reported by another witness, which gives it even more credibility.

Military Dismisses Sighting

The Stephenville Empire-Tribune, which has written about the mysterious object, said about 40 people saw the thing ? though some were too sheepish to admit the sighting until others came forward.

Police officer Leroy Gatin said he was walking to his car when he saw a red glow that reminded him of pictures he'd seen of an erupting volcano.

He said the object was suspended 3,000 feet in the air. Gatin said he was so awestruck that he called his son to come and see ? but he didn't talk much about it until he saw a story about a UFO in the local paper.

Military officials, however, were skeptical. They said the residents are letting their imaginations run wild and passed it off as an optical illusion. They said it was likely nothing more than a reflection of sunlight on two airliners.

Officials at a nearby air force base also said their fighter pilots didn't chase down anything that night.

The incident was eerily similar to a UFO sighting a little more than a year ago at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

As many as 12 United Airlines employees spotted the object and filed reports with United.

Excerpts from NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18146244

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