Texas Towns Become Epicenter Of UFO Sightings

Posted: Feb 20, 2008 12:46 PM EST

kxan.com

You may recall reports of "unidentified flying objects" out of Stephenville in North Texas earlier this year.

Now comes word those sightings are continuing with new appearances on Feb. 2 and Feb. 9.

(The following is a transcript written by KXAN Austin News' Jim Swift after spending the past two days talking with the witnesses.)

Dublin, Texas, home of the world's oldest Dr. Pepper bottling plant.

Just down the highway a few miles, Stephenville, Texas, known far and wide as the state's dairy capital.

But over the last few weeks, these communities and a wider swath of North Central Texas have become the epicenter of the country's latest outbreak of UFO fever.

"A big long area of bright, bright, intensely bright lights," said dental office administrator Claudette Odam.

"The lights or the navigation lights are what I saw," said Mac McKinnon with the Dublin Citizen Publisher.

"They were extremely bright." said retiree James Huse.

"In a line, in a straight line and so long," said Odam.

"What was so odd, these lights were flashing like a strobe," said Constable Lee Roy Gaitan

"A strobe that just kept going and going and going," said Odam.

"I have a drawing that I made," said Huse.

"Other lights would start doing stuff," said Odam.

"It appears to be maybe something like this and it's just spinning around," said Gaitan.

"It had kind of a flat bottom on it; it was round, kind of gum-drop shaped," said Huse.

"It would look like, kind of like a light show," said Odam.

"They were not just strobing; they were moving around," said Gaitan.

"It was like an energy field of some sort, going through the center of it," said Huse.

"In an instant, they were gone," said Gaitan.

As reports and rumors spread, the military denied having any activity in the area, only to admit a few days later that there were 10 jets training.

"The airplanes, the jets following the lights right over the top of my house and it shook my house," said Odam.

"I could clearly see that they were jets; I could clearly hear that they were jets," said Gaitan.

"They weren't training when we saw them and especially that late at night. You know, I'm not trying to say they're lying or anything, but they've lied once," said Odam.

"It somewhat tarnished their, I guess their word or whatever you want to call it, their credibility," said Gaitan.

But in the end, the big question remains: what's up there?

"I think there's other stuff out there. If it's getting close to the end like everybody says it is, maybe they're coming back here to see the same thing we're waiting for," said Odam.

"This didn't just happen; it has a cause, OK?" said Huse.

All right, if that's the case, what might that cause and effect be?

Well, it turns out a consensus may be developing.

"You know, for years, you know, all the time I was in the military, they've always wanted to have some kind of hovering device that was silent, and it was also big," said McKinnon.

"Either some type of new weapon or new craft or something that they're working on," said Gaitan.

But if it is aliens...

"We've had no reports of lost cows; we've had no reports of lost milk and no reports of lost cases of Dr. Pepper. So I think they left empty-handed," said Huse.

But if they took nothing, they did leave plenty of curiosity behind.