As Joiner points out in her March 30 article, this resulted in the evaluation by many that the Stephenville case is the most significant public UFO case since the so-called "Phoenix Lights" incident March 13, 1997.

In that case, although some witnesses saw only huge lights in an apparent shape, hundreds or thousands of other Arizonans reportedly saw a huge V-shaped or boomerang-shaped object.

According to witnesses, it cruised slowly and silently at low altitude over rural Arizona and metropolitan Phoenix in the early evening in a southeasterly direction.

As others concluded from the Phoenix Lights case, Officer X in Texas stated, "I think what we saw wanted to be seen."

Another similarity: People considering the Phoenix and Stephenville cases wondered if these craft were advanced U.S. technology of some kind, maybe from classified facilities in the Southwest.

Officer X told Joiner that he and another officer initially felt that the object was military.

However, he said a third officer "was pretty adamant that it was not." That officer´s reasons for his conclusion could not be revealed to maintain his anonymity, Joiner reported.

Officer X said, "The more I thought about it… I thought, 'They just don't fly secret projects in free air space.' If it's military, they made a big boo-boo by flying it into Stephenville, Texas. The Air Force knows better than that. It leads me away from the Air Force."

He told Joiner he wasn't sure if the craft was extraterrestrial.

"How does a person know? How do you know without something landing and somebody walking out of it?"

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