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Have you ever seen a UFO in the Crossroads area?

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  • Tara Bozick •
  • Originally published January 31, 2009 at 11:13 p.m., updated January 31, 2009 at 11:13 p.m.

"Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe, without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the universe we are not alone."

-- Albert Einstein

On occasion, I check in with the MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Web site, just to see if any sightings have been reported in our area.

Specifically, I've been interested in the semi-famous events of a year ago over Stephenville, Texas. And since MUFON is the largest organization dedicated to the investigation of unidentified flying objects, I figure www.mufon.com is the best place to find out all I can about such incidents as Stephenville.

On the night of Jan. 8, 2008, a bunch of witnesses and several radar sites saw or detected "something" in the skies over the Stephenville and Dublin areas of North Texas.

In an exhaustive report, MUFON studied the radar findings and carefully examined and compared witness sightings. Their conclusion was that a quite mysterious and definitely unidentified flying object was up there, and the military scrambled eight to 10 jets to the area for some reason they haven't explained.

You see, the Air Force records obtained by MUFON under the Freedom of Information Act were "inked out" to a large extent, and left more questions than they answered.

Was it a secret military aircraft of ours? Or was it an alien spacecraft being piloted by a little guy with great big eyes and a skinny little gray body?

Like so many other reports before it, the Stephenville lights mystery remains just that.

I wonder if there are Advocate readers out there who have seen similar objects in the sky, objects they can't explain or completely identify.

If so, can I hear from you, please? Maybe we can get our own mystery going, although I guess the chance of solving it is minimal.

Still, if these things - whatever they are - fly over our area, I'd like to know about it. I might even wrap a blanket around me, get a video camera and stand watch some nights.

Just thinking about the possibilities makes your head swim, doesn't it? Recently, on the PBS program "The Universe," I heard that our own little galaxy, our Milky Way, is so big and contains so many stars that it takes the Earth more than 2 million years to go around it once.

Think of all those stars - and all those potential planets like ours.

To those who might respond to my request, I will keep you anonymous if you like. I'd just like to know what you've seen.

Because, as "The X Files" FBI agent, Fox Mulder, always says, "The truth is out there."

Jim Bishop is a senior editor for the Advocate. Leave him a message at 361-574-1210 or jbishop@vicad.com or comment on this column at www.victoriaadvocate.com


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