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Aliens from outer space are the least likely explanation. There are far stranger possibilities. Here are some ideas about what’s going on right now in Seldon, Texas!
Just after sunset on January 8, 2008 several dozen Texans in a farm community had a showdown with the unknown. No matter what you think, something real happened that no one can explain, although many seem anxious to identify “ships” or “craft” that are “not of this world.”
I suspect that a true extraterrestrial “encounter” would be bewildering to us at best. More likely it would be instantly lethal. Alien micro-organisms might be invading on a regular basis. But weirder possibilities exist to explain the Seldon Phenomenon.
My post today involves a series of widely-reported UFO sightings as described this week by Angelia Joiner, a staff writer for the Empire-Tribune. She can be reached at angelia.joiner@empiretribune.com or 254-965-3124,ext. 238. This story will soon be known to all.
I am convinced that something very real is going on here. I have no idea what the final truth of these events is. I’m surprised that no one has acquired even an attempted photo, with all of the camera phones people are armed with today. Yet the chilling corroboration of witnesses from around the area of Stephenville, Texas belies cynicism.
I do, however, take exception with the prejudicial descriptions that color the testimony. Many unwarranted assumptions are being made in the labeling of phenomena. I will number these and italicize them as we encounter them here…
Disturbingly, the Air Force no longer officially investigates UFO sightings. They do, however, still offer lame and unimaginative excuses for witnessed phenomena. By the way, if anyone wishes to attack the United States with unimaginably advanced aircraft, they are apparently welcome to try.
Events involve Texas residents Steve Allen, Mike Odom and Lance Jones. Allen has been a private pilot for 30 years. He is the owner of L & S Enterprises and Texas Freight in Glen Rose. He can be contacted at 254-898-1117.
Allen said he has never seen a UFO until now, but he did suspect there was something to UFO stories(1) all along. “I was very surprised to finally get my eyes on one (2),” Allen said. “If anybody else saw this and got pictures I hope they will contact me.” He has already reported the sighting to Washington, and is writing a report on the event.
They were at Mike Odom’s house in Selden when it started. Odom characterized it as a “wild experience.”
“It's unexplainable(3),” Odom said. “It was something not natural(4); it was moving way too fast.” Odom said he saw one other unexplainable object in the sky in 1978 when he was in Arizona. “Back then something flew over with lights all around.”
“It was neat,” Lance Jones said. “It was something. I've never seen anything like it before but it didn't scare me. I just figured it was military(5).”
There have been many others in the area who have come forth, reluctantly. Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic(6) object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
"You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal," Sorrells said. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I'm not crazy."
Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.
Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan said that he first saw red glowing lights and then white flashing lights moving fast, but that even with binoculars could not see the object to which the lights were attached(7).
"I didn't see a flying saucer and I don't know what it was, but it wasn't an airplane, and I've never seen anything like it," Gaitan said. "I think it must be some kind of military craft — at least I hope it was."
They suddenly noticed flashing lights about 3,500 feet above ground level.
“The ship(8) wasn't really visible and was totally silent, but the lights spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide,” Allen said. “The lights went from corner to corner. It was directly above Highway 67 traveling towards Stephenville at a high rate of speed - about 3,000 miles per hour is what I would estimate.”
Allen said the lights were not those of a normal aircraft. He said they were more like strobe lights, and while they were all watching, the lights reconfigured themselves from a single horizontal line into two sets of vertical lights.“The two sets were approximately one-quarter of a mile apart,” Allen said. “Then they turned into dirty burning flames. The flames were not blue. They were white in color. About two seconds later it disappeared completely. It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts.(9)"
Odom's wife, Claudette, previously a flight attendant, said “Lights were going up and down the side. There was no sound, just the lights. It was moving so fast. It wasn't a plane. I know how planes move. Honestly, I think it was a UFO. It was so fast you couldn't have put your finger on it and move it fast enough to follow it.”
Events involved David Jaquess: “I live 4.6 miles out on Highway 67. About 6:15pm I saw something as I was turning in my driveway….it was unidentified flying lights…they were real bright yellow…unusually bright like a welding arc being struck…I was looking west / southwest.”
Events involved Dublin, Texas Constable Lee Roy Gaitan: “…It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before … two red, burning glows … my little boy and I counted nine flashes … even with binoculars there was no outline …it covered a big area …”
Events involved Anne Frazor: “ …It scared me … I thought two planes were about to collide … the lights were bright as a school bus … but up in the air. It was about 6:40.”
Events involved Air Force navigational specialist James Hughes: “I saw two red lights acting unusual … traveling in formation … they were so intensely bright … but there was no noise … not like a helicopter or a plane … I was looking north … it was unusual.”
Indeed, events involved so many people that Roswell, New Mexico may have a rival for UFO capital.
A town meeting has been called for this coming Saturday by The Mutual UFO Network where X-Files enthusiasts hope to corral all of the witnesses for a cosmic shakedown. The Assistant State Director for the group, Steve Hudgeons, says it’s the unusually high number of people that claim to have witnessed the event as well as the credibility of those involved that is bringing all of the attention.
Officials at the region's two Air Force bases — Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls — said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. Which indicates that there might be a serious security breach.
Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sightings.
Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.
"I'm 90 percent sure this was an airliner(10)," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."
Approximately 10 minutes after Allen, Odom and Jones’ First Encounter, came the second, as the object flew overhead again.“This time it came from the west traveling east towards Glen Rose,” Allen said. “And it was about two or three miles south of 67, and two military jets, possibly F16s, were in pursuit(11).”“I was asking, ‘Are you guys seeing that?’” Allen said.
While federal officials insist there's a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object's lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object. And, because he's been a private pilot for more than 30 years, Steve Allen has a little more experience judging air speeds and distances than most.
Odom said. “I think this thing bothered all of us, but it probably bothered Steve more because he's a pilot and he flies a lot.”
"People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a very human freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide.
And now let’s address the biases of the accounts:
(1) Allen’s familiarity with “UFO stories” and his assumption that he did finally “get my eyes on one” (2) indicate interpretative bias. He instantly related his perceptions to the familiar stories. If something is assumed “unexplainable” (3) yet deemed “not natural” (4) it can only be supernaturally understood. A group of reconfiguring fast moving lights have now become Supernatural. A forthright assumption that “the” military is behind it (5) actually reveals TWO assumptions, one being that there are super-advanced military aircraft way beyond anything publicly known; the other being that “the” military is “our” military, not “theirs.” (6) Claiming that unknown objects are composed of any specific material groups such as “metallic” is unsupportable. (7) There is no evidence that the lights were attached to anything at all. (8) Now it’s suddenly a “ship?” How did this unknown, invisible “object” become a “ship?” (9) And now it’s definitely “not from these parts?” How do we know that it isn’t from directly below us? Or a parallel world co-existing here? (10) If you’re only 90% sure of what it is, I’m very interested to know what the other 10% is thinking. If a military man is 90% sure, he’s uncertain. What else does he think this can be? (11) There is no way to know whether the jets were “pursuing” the UFO or merely following it…maybe even escorting it.
And so, what exactly do we have?
>Flashing strobe lights about 300 to 3,500 feet above ground level
>traveling at 3,000 miles per hour
>a mile long and a half mile wide, changing configuration from horizontal to vertical
>changing colors either actually or from perspective shifts
>does not look “normal” to most –if not all - people
>no thermal heat produced
>no shockwave damage
>no catastrophic sound signature or “footprint”
>no vapor trail from flying that fast and low to the ground
What exactly might explain this phenomenon? The unknown is just that, unknown. But why content ourselves with such simplistic analogies as ships and alien conquerors? That is soooo Star Wars.
Natural Causes:
(1) A cosmic lens was somehow formed, perhaps by a confluence of planets, comets, asteroids or configurations of all, funneling a narrow beam of light upon Earth, refracted and perceived by humans as separate lights moving in unison. Think of a giant flashlight being waved at us from trillions of miles away.
(2) A parallel reality co-exists in the same space as ours but in a different frequency, unless momentarily breached by powerful energy. Someone or something “over there” turned on the juice and for a moment we were connected.
(3) Other creatures live right here on our very Earth who dwell in the atmosphere and can become luminescent at low altitudes while traveling near the speed of light. We simply have never identified them. Hey, we don’t really know everything, we just pretend that we do for the sake of sanity.
Technological Possibilities:
(4) A time travel platform exists in this location in the distant future. Sometimes as it is being used for time travel, elements of it appear in ghost-like fashion while passing through our era.
(5) The lights are the only visible parts of a top-secret military defense grid that runs across a large section of the Southwest, and must occasionally be used to communicate with, locate or identify satellites for the purposes of monitoring and destruction.
(6) Other creatures live right here on our very Earth who also build gadgets of great complexity, they’ve matured right beside us for millennia, but we’ve just never met them. They travel in lights and don’t spend too much time on Earth any more. Hey, Zeus!
Conspiracy Theories:
(7) The shadow government is using these lights to effect the crops and cattle grown in the area, then tracking the progress of the treated food through to consumers throughout the world. Eaten any food from Texas lately?
(8) The elite super-tech force that deals with intraplanetary terrorism enters and exists their underground base somewhere bear Seldon.
(9) God is bringing on the End of Times, apparently preceded by a light show.
Allen called it an unidentified flying object.
“We all flipped out,” Allen said. “I didn't sleep a wink last night.”
The guy acts like he’s seen an alien or something.
What’s your theory? Me? I’m merely a…
…. Hole In The Cosmos ……
