Meanwhile with McKiever : Some are skeptics while others are believers

TONYA MCKIEVER

Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/57896/

Just more than 100 miles from where I grew up, several folks reported seeing something in the evening skies lately. Something that may not be from another universe, but it’s definitely an unidentified flying object — a UFO.

Even Mr. Larry King interviewed some UFO observers from Stephenville, Texas, on his Friday night show. Who in the world can you believe if you can’t believe the guests on Larry King Live ?

Stephenville is a farming / ranching town in west central Texas. Although I’ve never met any of the good people interviewed the other night, I would vouch for their honesty in a heartbeat. They are all convinced that they saw something in the sky Jan. 8. It spent some time just kind of parked over their town. They didn’t even call it “ hovering” since that’s what you usually hear from people insistent that they saw a spaceship filled with curious aliens. A Stephenville pilot, business owner and county commissioner all described the object as “ huge and silent. ” After a short while, it took off at a tremendous speed.

So many of the area residents saw it, that they began talking about it. They called the closest military bases, airports, the state and federal offices hoping to find out what they had seen. No one has given them an answer. Still, each observer interviewed has said that they know they saw something and they want to know what it was. There were no accusations of government cover-ups from the people in Stephenville. They, of course, have had lots of ribbing. They’ve been called crackpots and crazies. Those who saw the object just laugh and say they understand that some people think it’s a hoax, but they know it’s not.

Some townspeople are considering the incident funny. On the marquee of a restaurant in Stephenville: Martians Eat Free. Others consider the reports silly and embarrassing. But those who watched whatever it was in the Stephenville sky a few days ago, say they’re not bothered by the skeptics. Not even the Tarleton State University students who made themselves tin-foil hats and sat on the Erath County square guarding Moola, a statue of a cow, have affected the two dozen or so who saw the gigantic, nighttime object in the sky. Who knows what it was in Stephenville, Texas ? None of those who saw it was afraid. They were all fascinated. Maybe it will park for a while over a northwest Arkansas community soon. Wouldn’t you love to see it ?