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Stephenville, Texas town folk are astonished as the sky above them seems to turn into the battle scene from a Sci-Fi movie UFO Alien Invasion s1e7, National Geographic
January 8th 2008 businessman and private pilot Steven Allen was just outside of town when he spots something curious in the sky. Steve describes enormous blue red and white lights flying in formation at high velocity ... Constable Lee Roy Gaitan watches the activity of the flying lights ... Steve Allen watches a set of lights coming back across the sky from the other end of town with two F-16s on its tail ... A month later Constable Gaitan gets his evidence. Investigation X: UFO Outbreak, Discovery 2008
It could be a scene straight out of a Sci-Fi film. The inhabitants of a Texas town witness the night sky set alight by UFOs seemingly in a skirmish with US Air Force F-16s. Weird or What? s1e2: Ghost Ship, Discovery 2010
January 8th 2008 in the quiet diary town of Stephenville, Texas ... The mysterious lights were just part of the story. So did Steve Allen and other witnesses see the US Air Force in a clash with alien invaders? ibid.
If these were simply flares, why didn’t the Air Force admit it? ibid.
Everyone in the community has accepted that there was something strange happening the night of January 8th. Lee Roy Gaitan, constable Erath County
What we saw was definitely not a flare. Steve Allen
In January 2008 the citizens of Stephenville, Texas, witnessed a series of sightings that no-one has yet been able to explain. Among the witnesses was also the country constable. UFOs & The Military Elite, PSTV 2009
Another famous case is the Lubbock Lights which dates back to 1952. Hundreds of people reported multiple sightings of a strange formation of lights which repeatedly crossed the skies of the small Texas town. ibid.
The images have been analysed and declared authentic more than once. ibid.
The lights came to a near dead-stop over Stephenville. Alien Mysteries: Lights Over Stephenville, Discovery 2013
The response was beyond Steve’s wildest expectations … ‘A lot of people saw what we saw.’ ibid.
Steve Allen and a group of friends observed military jets chasing a bizarre configuration of lights. But they weren’t the only witnesses to this strange event. ibid.
Stephenville: In December 2007 there were two reports of UFOs over Texas. Within a month the number grew to 200 sightings. UFO Hunters s1e10: Invasion: Texas, History 2008
From police officers’ testimony to video and photographic evidence … and startling eye-witness accounts. ibid.
‘Ribbons of bright lights, different colour lights.’ ibid.
This is one of the greatest mysteries in UFO history. A well on a lonely Texas prairie and an old cemetery may harbour proof that we are not alone. In 1897 something allegedly crashed in Texas six years before the invention of the aeroplane. Someone or something was found in the wreckage. Who or what was buried here in an unmarked grave? Crash debris was sealed in a well. Until now. UFO Hunters s2e4: First Contact, History 2008
April 17th 1897 ... A cigar-shaped aircraft travelling north-south over the town. According to several witnesses the craft appeared to be in difficulty; it finally careered into a windmill high on a ridge. The collision and resulting explosion rained flaming debris over acres of farm land ... A diminutive and unearthly corpse. ibid.
This was no isolated event. Newspapers all over America published similar accounts of unworldly airships being sighted. ibid.
Some claimed it was an extraterrestrial craft. Others a secret weapons test gone wrong ... What type of sighting could cause burns and illness? Now nearly thirty years later clues emerge. And another surfaces – a police car that hit a UFO head on. A family with symptoms of radiation poisoning and a strange collision. UFO Hunters s2e8: Alien Fallout
December 29th 1980: The pine woods of Huffman, Texas ... The light descended and revealed itself to be a diamond-shaped object. The three occupants of the car felt its heat, and the two women were burned. ibid.
Jerry also reveals that he became ill soon after the incident. ibid.
Betty probably received the highest dose as she got out of the car. ibid.
Bill [Birnes] learns that a crew was seen at the site just days after the incident digging up the road. ibid.
Who authorised the helicopters seen by numerous witnesses that evening? ibid.
Texas is consistently ranked as one of the top states in America with UFO activity. Investigative file: The Stephenville Lights, Stephenville, Texas, January 2008: Three friends are enjoying a crisp clear winter evening. The fun will not last for long … ‘From the east they see what appears to be a giant object with four lights’ … Hunting UFOs: Investigating Hotspots, History 2020
Investigative File: Camp Hood UFO Incident, Fort Hood, Texas, Spring 1949: The skies over Camp Hood, now known as Fort Hood, are filled with unusual objects. ibid.
On a clear winter’s evening in January 2008 a close encounter of an extraordinary kind took place on a small Texan dairy town called Stephenville. It remains one of the most baffling and hair-raising sightings ever recorded. A mile-wide craft was seen hovering overhead by stunned locals. Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies: Stephenville, History 2022
Unfortunately, there’s a lack of evidence, there’s no pictures, there’s no video. ibid.
Aurora, Texas, 1897: ‘An airship supposedly run into a windmill.’ Ancient Aliens s3e1: Aliens and the Old West, History 2011
Strange carvings. Mysterious sightings. And unexplained phenomena. Could there be more to America’s past than is found in history books? Could the mysterious stories and relics found across North America be evidence that the continent had extraterrestrial origins? Ancient Aliens s7e2: Aliens in America, History 2014
Stephenville, Texas, 2008: More than a dozen people including a police officer and private pilot saw a luminous spherical object floating silently across the sky. ibid.
Stephenville, Texas, 8th January 2008: What I saw in the sky that night changed everything. Encounters III: Messengers, witness Steve, Netflix 2013
Two F-16s came in hot pursuit. ibid.
We were inundated with media from all over the country. ibid. witness
In January 2008, 300 people reported seeing mysterious lights in the sky over Central Texas. Researchers call this event the most siginificant civlian sighting of the last 30 years. ibid.
The first Marfa light sighting was by a rancher in the late 1800s. Unexplained Mysteries
In 1948 a fireball crashes to Earth near Laredo, Texas, just south of the Mexican border. The American military launches a top secret mission into Mexico to recover it. They say it was an experimental aircraft. Alien Files Unsealed s1e4: The Laredo Incident
The badly burnt body of the UFO’s pilot. Witnesses describe the body as alien in appearance. ibid.