I never posted about it, but there has recently been some UFO activity in Stephenville, Texas where a number of residents reported seeing anomalous aircraft in the skies.
Why is this important?
Well, it turns out that ol’ Lykaon grew up just a mere 30 miles from Stephenville. Whatever those folks saw may have well been visible to my hometown and all of its residents.
The original article on the sitings was posted up on January 17, 2008 and told of the accounts. At the time, the Air Force denied having any aircraft in the area, fueling speculation that the townfolk really did see a UFO.
This morning, however, the Air Force has backpedaled into this statement:
In the interest of public awareness, Air Force Reserve Command Public Affairs realized an error was made regarding the reported training activity of military aircraft.
So, now the Air Force is saying that they did in fact have aircraft flying over Stephenville in the form of a number of F-16s.
I’m not going to jump on a conspiracy band wagon here and say the Air Force is trying to cover something up.
I’ve had enough experience to know that, more than likely, they really did just fudge it up and fail to realize that they had multi-million dollar fighter jets flying around.
The problem, of course, is that this is how UFO conspiracy theories are born. The Air Force failing to check its facts will cause decades of UFO talk in Stephenville, ultimately hurting the credibility of the US Government (and probably Stephenville as well).
It’s sad that they couldn’t have been a little more thorough when releasing their first statement.
Or maybe it really was a UFO cover-up…
Talking about a cover up you say .Well if something is not explained and has that much media coverage ,i belive the easiest way is to blame a high ranking government departmnet.then what can you do ,can you investigate if the military is lying ?I guess not ,as i predicted this whole UFO phenomemon that started in stephenville texas will fade away
We didn’t see it Josh. I wish we had. It would have been something I could have told my Grandkids about. :)
However, on the last update the Naval Airstation had scrambled 12 F16s at the time. I will not vouch for this info, but that is what I heard through the grapevine, along with the 2 F16s that were in persuit and IT ran off and left them.
Stephenville may become another Roswell.