Posted on 01/20/2008 2:54:17 AM PST by BnBlFlag
Houston & Texas News
Jan. 19, 2008, 10:11PM 'Different than anything' resident had ever seen Hundreds meet with UFO experts to discuss sighting
By TARA DOOLEY Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments (1) Recommend (2) DUBLIN — James Huse came to state nothing but the facts. The theories would have to come later, he said.
So in pursuit of the truth, Huse traveled the few miles down the road from his home in Stephenville to the Rotary Club meeting hall in downtown Dublin on Saturday to tell this story:
On Jan. 8, shortly after dark, he was walking two house guests to their car near Stephenville's main square when he beheld a red glowing light moving slowly across the sky. He pointed up at the sky and said: "UFO."
"I know what an airplane looks like," the 53-year-old retired electronics technician said. "I know what a helicopter looks like. This wasn't an airplane or a helicopter.
"This looked different than anything I had ever seen," he added.
That was the gist of what Huse told the investigators from the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, at the Saturday gathering, he said.
It was a story, told in multiple versions, to investigators from the nonprofit group that calls itself "dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity."
The MUFON investigators rode into Dublin, a city famous as the home of a Dr Pepper museum and plant. Their goal was to look into the ruckus that has thrust this cowboy country of small towns and big skies into the international limelight.
Armed with a three-page questionnaire, investigators probed the memories of witnesses in one-on-one interviews.
"We are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery," said MUFON's Texas director, Ken Cherry. "We approach it from a scientific method and let the chips fall as they may."
The mystery unfolded with stories like Huse's.
Before Saturday's gathering, dozens of people had filed reports with the group, Cherry said. Most told of an unidentified object seen between 6:15 p.m. Jan. 8 and 4 a.m. the next day.
At the Dublin Rotary Club building, about 200 possible witnesses told their tale, Cherry said. It was many more than could be handled with the 50 copies of the questionnaire that MUFON members had brought with them.
The hall — normally filled with revelers for events such as the annual Dr Pepper, St. Patrick's Day and homecoming celebrations — was packed with about 500 people. Some of them were witnesses; others were curious area residents, some wearing aluminum foil hats and T-shirts proclaiming Stephenville the UFO capital of the world.
They were all stuck behind a semi-circle of television cameras and reporters flanking Cherry and Steve Hudgeons, assistant state director.
Hudgeons started off the meeting by defining UFO. "It means unidentified flying object," he said. "It does not mean spaceship from outer space."
Indeed, the group does not pretend to have a handle on alien technology, said Robert Powell, a director of research for MUFON who came from Austin to help the investigation.
The trick of such an investigation is to weed out the nuts and the folks who saw sights easily explained with an airplane flight schedule. The rest are occurrences that might just turn out to be unexplainable, he said.
"You want to get down to the real cases," said Powell, a real estate broker.
For Powell, the aluminum-covered heads in the room lacked a certain respect for the field. He said he got into it to study the phenomenon scientifically.
"It's an unknown that has the potential to be solved," Powell said.
MUFON's conclusions will not be ready for months, if not a year, Cherry said. They will likely be published first in the group's newsletter.
If Huse was sticking to the facts Saturday, Sean Kiel had a theory.
Kiel, 42, said he saw a bright ball of light passing across the sky at dusk on Jan. 8. He was somewhere between Weatherford and Cisco, driving his regular trucking route. A resident of New Haven, Ky., Kiel came to Dublin for the meeting with photos of the light saved on his cell phone.
He doesn't know for sure, but he believes the photos show some kind of military aircraft.
Of course, that doesn't mean it wasn't a UFO in one sense of the phrase.
"It was a UFO," he said. "I couldn't identify it."
tara.dooley@chron.com
I have to admit I haven’t been keeping up with the UFOs lately Quix. Since I started animating I spend more time on it than on reading.
I was very interested in the recent Texas sightings though.
Take care!
Thanks thanks.
A beautiful animation.
Did you do pottery or just collect it?
Lol, your pretty StarTrek page!
At least it isn’t the ‘Jetsons’ flying around there.
I went to get a ‘ready to post’ graphic earlier in Angelfire and then I saw all of the urls were down!!
That’s one of devolve’s webpages.
I just collected it Quix, till I ran out of space, lol.
They just had a writeup about the man who made many things I have, the ones with funny faces.
He said his most popular ones now are ones with religious symbols or inscriptions on them!!
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I’ve got a lot of “spacey” graphics
I should post more of them
When you see an opportunity you should.
I thought you would know the song on the Rush thread. Remember your webpage with the man falling out of the tree, lol.
I can’t find your stuff because I don’t know the names.
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Lol, that is a fat face in that space suit! Think I stuck too big a head in there.
He would lose his semi smile fast!!
I C.
Interesting.
My spiritual Christian inscriptions . . . usually on the bottoms of the pieces . . . are as popular as the shapes and glazings.
Any links showing your collection types?
Blessings,
[Any links showing your collection types?]
Remind me - as I have been inundated with requests lately - but I will try to scan the pictures in the article I cut out and post them to you tomorrow.
He is putting the inscriptions on the front of them.
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LOL!
I could “remote edit” it!
Lol, no need.
Besides you might make his smile a sneer - heh!!
pLEASE, NO
rush or pressure on my account at all.
Just curious.
Blessings,
The others are a variety, a calico cat on a handle, a gecko as the handle, a tiny armadillo on the edge of a brown pot, a honey bear with a pot climbing over the edge of the pot, one blue pot face with a cowboy hat and big teeth.
There is a piggy bank pig in the back with a large cork for his snout and a very small face pot that is a 'bubble blowing container, and even a small one running a Q-tip through his ears, lol!
Some of the ones with faces are hard to discern, they were bought at Renaissance Festivals and are very intricate. The two large ones alone are some I bought in Mexico. A white one at the bottom has a cigarette in his mouth! They are all signed and have the creator's cards inside them.
“They” have come here, but have been scared away by paparazzi.
Incredible and beautiful collection.
Thanks much.
You probably wouldnt anyway—but please . . .
AVOID microwaving in any of them more than 3-4 minutes—and that only on a rotating turntable version.
They are so irregular, that the steam forces built-up within the clay could cause a fracture. I ruined a very intricate Aspen tree relief sort of mug I’d made in Taipei. Thankfully, the master potter was quite happy to have it anyway as an example of some sort.
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Very nice collection potlatch!
Ia that “Tiffany” the dancing lamp?
I thought you might enjoy seeing things that I collect devolve. I have been collecting them for maybe 30 years now and stopped sometime ago for lack of space.
My daughters CRAVE them, lol!
Whoops, sorry, that lamp base is an antique one that I found to put the shade on. I bought the glass shade in Mexico. Wish I had had it lit up when I took the picture!
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