Stephenville, Texas, joins list of UFO hot spots
by Steve Hammons
By mid-evening, the object was over the metropolitan Phoenix region,
including the downtown area and Sky Harbor International Airport and was
reportedly witnessed by hundreds or thousands of people.
Citizens called the news media, local police and nearby Luke Air Force Base.
The story was covered by local, national and international news
organizations.
Although this object could have been a secret U.S. military craft from
nearby Nevada, New Mexico or elsewhere, it seemed odd that it would fly
directly over a major American city during the early evening.
EMERGING DEVELOPMENTS
The sightings in Stephenville are just the latest in the continuing
phenomena which have been in the forefront of American and international
awareness since the late 1940s and early ´50s.
After the news reports of "the Roswell incident" in the summer 1947, and
then the spectacular wave of UFOs over Washington, D.C., in 1952, people
certainly began to wonder what was going on. Books, movies, TV shows and
other media explored the idea of visitation to Earth by intelligent
extraterrestrial beings.
As to what was going on behind the scenes within the U.S. defense and
intelligence communities regarding the situation, we have only clues and
claims that there was concern at high levels and steps were taken to analyze
and understand what was happening.
Now, in the 21st century, the public is still spotting unusual objects in
the sky flying in interesting patterns in both the day and night.
Researchers and journalists continue to cover the subject, and the news
media particularly seems to be doing so in more responsible and professional
ways.
Although higher federal officials often dismiss sightings such as those in
Stephenville as a conventional aircraft or some other misidentification, it
is possible that more is known than the public is informed about.
What the facts and implications are behind the UFO phenomena are unclear. Is
it a good development? Is it a dangerous situation? Maybe some mixture of
both or something so complicated that we might have a difficult time
wrapping our minds around it?
The citizens of Stephenville are just the latest Americans to have a
first-hand experience of this kind, and undoubtedly they are asking
themselves these same kinds of questions.
Originally published: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/49104
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