The Skies Above Stephenville, Part Two

by Michael G. Mickey

(1-31-08)

In a recent commentary I discussed highly-publicized reports of mysterious unidentified flying objects being witnessed in the skies above Stephenville, Texas.

A Fox News story on the topic opened with the following explanations of the original reports, in part:

• STEPHENVILLE, Texas —  In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.

  Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.

  "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 freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."

• Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic 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.

  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 sighting.

  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," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."

Digest This Thoroughly

Let's review some, shall we? Several dozen people, some of whom should be considered reliable, trustworthy witnesses at the very least, say something was in the skies above Stephenville. Some indicated they witnessed military aircraft in pursuit of whatever it was.

A pilot himself and freight company owner, Steve Allen said, as you just read, what he saw was a mile long and half a mile wide. Absolutely massive! What kind of power source would be required to keep anything metallic in composition of that size in the air? Think about it.

And there was the story of machinist Ricky Sorrells to consider. He said he saw the object on a number of occasions and went so far as to look at it through his rifle scope to examine it. He noted that it appeared to be seamless with no nuts or bolts visible - exactly what I would expect a machinist to take an interest in.

Then there was the military account of events that took place. Major 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 sighting.

Fast Forward

I've been intentionally repetitive thus far - and for a reason. Why? Because now we're being told, in another Fox News story, that the mystery of what was in the skies above Stephenville, Texas may be resolved. Or is it?

In a Roswell-like reversal of a previously-issued statement, the same military base that told the media there were no (as in zero) F-16s or any other aircraft from its base anywhere near Stephenville is now saying there were ten F-16s in the area of Stephenville on the day in question.

The same Major Karl Lewis who originally was quoted in the original Fox News story as saying "the sun's angle can play tricks on you" and said there was a chance people had seen an illusion caused by "two commercial airplanes" - this statement potentially lending great credibility to the massive size of whatever was seen in the skies above Stephenville - is quoted in the second Fox News story, this time declining to comment on the nature of the military training and saying he shouldn't have speculated about the reported sightings.

As for the people of Stephenville, their feelings about it all are mixed - and with good reason. Some of them, as I read the story, seem open to the idea that what they saw was potentially a military aircraft. Others aren't so sure and I can't say that I blame them. After all, they were lied to the first time, the second time or, potentially, both times.

It wasn't an F-16

While I have no idea what was in the skies above Stephenville, the one thing I'm as positive as I can be is that whatever type of flat, metallic aircraft Ricky Sorrells saw hovering some 300 feet over a pasture behind his home was not an F-16. F-16s don't hover, they're not flat and they have seams, nuts, bolts and rivets.

In like manner, I'm sure that pilot Steve Allen didn't see an F-16 or even ten of them flying in tight formation. What he described was almost unimaginably massive in size to be airborne. The thrust an object that size would've required to fly above Stephenville should have shaken it like an earthquake but it didn't. Those who saw whatever it was were apparently very consistent in their description of what they saw, describing it as larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane.

And lastly, the only people who saw any of the ten F-16s the military is now saying were in the area? They saw them "chasing" the UFO they and everyone else saw which, once again, lends more credibility to the story originally told by the citizenry of Stephenville than that of our military in either of its press statements!

Conclusions

While I don't pretend to know what was in the skies above Stephenville that wasn't an F-16, I am thoroughly convinced that something was there which wasn't an F-16. I'm further convinced that many people who would have no reason to lie saw it. Not only that, whatever was seen in the skies above Stephenville, the United States military, for reasons unknown, doesn't want us to know what it actually was which is either good news or not-so-good news.

That our military conducts secretive tests and is constantly striving to improve its capability to defend our nation against threats to its safety is a certainty. Thank God for that! My hope and prayer is this was an incident of the military testing out a new technology that may prove to make our nation safer in the future. The other possibility? What was seen in the skies above Stephenville was considered enough of a threat to us that our military scrambled not one but 10 F-16s to investigate it and, if necessary, to combat it. In that scenario, however, one would have to wonder how you get 10 F-16s to Stephenville, Texas fast enough to intercept an object like the one witnessed but couldn't get even one F-16 above our nation's capital city to protect the Pentagon on September 11th.

While I don't want RaptureAlert.com's focus to be on the paranormal, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I believe there is far more to UFO phenomena than meets the eye. To be sure I believe it to be demonic in origin in instances where the phenomena of 'alien abduction' accompanies UFO sightings at the very least. If I'm correct in making that presumption and I believe I am, I believe there are going to be more and more objects spotted in the skies above places like Stephenville and, perhaps, even places like Chicago, Illinois where it wasn't long ago that numerous employees of United Airlines at O'Hare International Airport saw a UFO hovering above in broad daylight.

In that incident all the witnesses said "the object was dark gray and well defined in the overcast skies", estimated in various accounts to be between 6 and 24 feet in diameter, displaying no lights of any kind.

"Some said it looked like a rotating Frisbee, while others said it did not appear to be spinning. All agreed the object made no noise and it was at a fixed position in the sky, just below the 1,900-foot cloud deck, until shooting off into the clouds."

One United employee, a mechanic who noticed the object while in the cockpit of a Boeing 777 said "it definitely was not an [Earth] aircraft."

Another shaken United employee admitted experiencing "religious issues" after the sighting. Do you smell the handiwork of Satan in that statement? I know I do!

The Chicago Tribune, in that instance, quoted Richard Haines, science director at the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, as saying (emphasis added mine), "There have been documented cases where safety appears to have been implicated, and more and more we are coming to the point of view that we are dealing with an intelligent phenomenon."

Indeed we are.

Ephesians 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Keep looking up!