Researchers, others visit Stephenville to gather information, insight about UFO sightings

By Steve Hammons
January 17, 2008

As researchers, news media representatives, government officials and others visit Stephenville, Texas, to find out more about recent events there, the general public might be getting better insight and perspective on the topic of possible extraterrestrial visitation to our planet.

The many sightings of unusual flying craft by solid witnesses over recent months, years and decades seem to be helping people get used to the idea that something very interesting might be going on.

For many people, the idea of intelligent beings visiting Earth from other planets, other dimensions or who knows where is interesting and exciting. It can also cause concern, anxiety or even be somewhat frightening.

There are natural reasons for all of these reactions.

We might hope that visitors from outside of our normal world could bring solutions to our problems of war, disease, poverty, suffering, natural resources depletion and the many other troubling situations we face today.

At the same time, we are well aware of our own human history of invasion, infiltration, conquest and destruction. Visitors might have goals along these lines too.

We just don´t know. At least the general public doesn´t know.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Reports, claims, accounts and rumors frequently surface about behind-the-scenes activities and operations by our military and intelligence services that are related to this scenario.

Many of these reports might seem to have some truth in them. There is a certain logic and circumstantial indication that governmental efforts have been underway for quite a while to deal with such a situation.

How much is really accurate and how much is partially true or totally untrue can be difficult to figure out.

Did "the Roswell incident" in 1947 include clear evidence to the Army Air Corps and higher officials that extraterrestrial visitors were here?

Did President Harry Truman authorize special groups to research and formulate plans and activities to deal with this challenge? Some documents seem to back this up.

Did President Dwight Eisenhower actually have a meeting in 1954 at Edwards Air Force Base in California with a type of these visitors? Stories and alleged eyewitness accounts have surfaced.

Did President Ronald Reagan receive an intelligence briefing in 1981 that presented a fairly comprehensive overview to him about this? An alleged version of this briefing was recently posted on the Web.

And, have specially-trained military and intelligence personnel actually been involved in surveillance of UFO incidents and witnesses and been prepared to respond to UFO incidents and crashes? An alleged 1954 special operations manual is posted on the Web and describes proper procedures for dealing with such situations.

These are just a few of many pieces of fascinating information out there. And there are many more.

BE PREPARED

The Stephenville, Texas, sightings particularly spark interest due to the reported size of the object or craft – claimed to be approximately a mile long in size, according to some witnesses.

The 1997 "Phoenix lights" craft was also reported to be about this size by witnesses in Arizona. The huge scale of the UFO was part of the surprise and interest by people in that case, and the similarity to the Stephenville sightings might be significant.

Another similarity: Some witnesses in Stephenville claimed that Air Force F-16s were in pursuit of the object. In the Phoenix case, there were also reports that F-16s were scrambled from Luke Air Force Base on the west side of Phoenix, a major F-16 training center.

Reports of military jets chasing UFOs, not only in the U.S. but in many countries, are fairly common. Mexico, Brazil, even Iran have had very interesting incidents over the years involving military pilots and unidentified and unusual flying craft.

Accounts of these events and background information that is widely available help us be prepared for the possibility or probability that we one day may be, or already have been, visited by intelligent beings from outside of our normal understanding and everyday reality.

Books and novels, reports and articles, TV shows and movies all help us prepare for situations that might be psychologically, emotionally and spiritually challenging.

There are claims and rumors that the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND was, in part, based on a real situation in regard to a special U.S. military team that went onboard a visiting spacecraft after a planned and coordinated landing, and spent a significant amount of time with these visitors.

Throughout the decades of interest in UFOs and ETs, starting in the 1940s, the importance of preparing Americans and people around the world for surprising or confusing news about such a situation has reportedly been a major concern.

Preparing us in a gradual and safe way for such news might have been one of the reasons for certain levels of security. This makes sense. This process may be going on now, and might continue to develop in coming days, weeks, months and years.

It could be a complicated situation that involves important elements of national security, human development or even the survival of Earth and our species.

Understanding as much as we can seems to be a good way to be prepared for the many possibilities and scenarios that may be coming down the road or zipping through the Texas sky.