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
Worked all around it, but never went or worked there. We're threatening to load up the camper and head to Maine this summer for the lobster festivals. I might just have to swing through RI somewhere going or coming to complete the list.....
Ft. Hood? Isn’t that where they sent out tanks to the Waco siege?
Favorite Larson cartoon:
(Carl Sagan as a young boy:)
“Look, Nancy! There must be dozens and dozens of stars up there!”
I don't have one of those maps but I think yours might be the only one I've seen that is more complete than mine would be. When my family was doing a USA tour back in '91, my wife and kids had never been to Ohio. We were heading back to NJ through WVa. At some point (Huntington, I think) I drove everyone across the Ohio River for some ice cream so they could add another state to their lists. I've been to RI countless times, but only landed there once. It wasn't something I'll easily forget. It was my first real instrument approach. I can still see the rabbit breaking through about 300' AGL at PVD. (Weather caused me to abandon a flight from ACK to CDW. I'm no longer sure why I thought I should leave ACK, but I quickly had another real approach going back there.)
ML/NJ
It's us.
LOL!
Thanks.
This seems to be unfolding as I expected it would.
I felt this was a very good case . . . likely a very deliberate exposure on the part of whatever powers that be were in control of the craft and that a wealth of personal accounts would surface over the following weeks.
Whether the craft was one of ‘theirs’ or ‘ours’ remains to be seen. Or, it could have been jointly manned.
I haven’t read yet or have forgotten . . . was it seen to disappear and/or travel at incredible speed?
There are, evidently, also very large blimps. But there are even larger UFO craft . . . real MOTHER SHIPS, in the vernacular.
That case has always disturbed and angered me.
The complicity of the government in those injuries and in the denials is incredible. Even if they’d had to be compensated quietly under contracts of silence, they deserved compensation.
I realize that the serfs are mere chaff and fodder to the globalist machine from hell but it still angers me that they get away with it all so easily.
Thankfully, their doom is sealed. Revelation describes it quite well.
I’ve read the end of The Book. Good and God win—it won’t even seem like a serious battle from His power’s perspective.
Some well connected folks have said that there are 70 or more ET ‘races’ dinking around with/observing earth.
Seems like there’s a great drama unfolding on this ‘insignificant’ lil ol planet which somehow affects all Creation.
and a companion site:
HTTP://WWW.ALIENRESISTANCE.ORG
have the best analysis of their motives . . . and . . . nature, . . . origins etc.
UNLES . . . .
Scripture is correct . . .
and this ‘little marble’
REALLY IS bootcamp for leaders of all Creation to eventually rule and reign with Christ over countless galaxies and worlds.
Why wouldn’t other worlds be interested in the training of their leaders and . . . the end of this phase of history as we’ve known it . . . when the evil one is locked up . . .
Thanks.
Very deserving thread for such a ping.
I think Linda did a good job on this interview.
Good image. No biggy on the drawing not liking right. The computer graphic is much better anyway.
Even advanced races need a good laugh every now and then. :^)
I have to take this stuff with a grain of salt. I downloaded some Billiy Miers UFO videos once which are obvious fakes. I figure if he can fake some of them then he can everything else. However, I’m not a total skeptic. As well as the falling Russian satellite, I’ve also seen a black triangle shape which I still can’t explain, and someone I know who has seen and taken photos of lights zig-zagging over the ocean at night. Professional UFOlogists, though, I tend to distrust.
It is amusing to hear young people on TV discussing their miracle diet, and to hear young people talk about how they have never seen the river so high.
To believe without a trace of evidence that there are other civilizations out there is irrational.
I think your assumptions are flawed.
BTW, evolution will finally bite the dust as an explanation within your lifetime . . . probably within 10 years or so.
Panspermia will be offered to replace it. . . . deliberate, engineered panspermia.
That . . . of course . . . ASSUMING we know all there is to know about causality and time etc.
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