Stephenville UFO Tracked by Police Officer's Radar Gun

"I had to swivel my radar head up into the sky. And I knew I got a good hit on it. It showed 27 miles per hour and was accelerating slowly...I want people to know that the citizens are telling the truth...There was something there. I think it's stealthy. It has a stealth capability. I think it can change colors with the sky. It was as dark as the sky until it lit up...It started out horizontal, went up to the left at 30 to 40 degrees, and stopped for about five seconds. Then it went slowly vertical. It took about another five seconds to do this; then it slowly moved away to the northwest. It was one big craft."

Thus spoke a Texas police officer, whose identity is being kept anonymous, about what he saw--and tracked with his radar gun--on January 8th, 2008, in Stephenville.

The phenomenon has come to be called "The Stephenville Lights", and it is one of the most inexplicable, widely witnessed, and likely to be authentic UFO events in modern history.

The anonymous police officer, who is at least the fourth law enforcement officer to come forward and say he saw the Stephenville Lights, recounted his experience to Stephenville journalist Angelia Joiner.

Stephenville is a small Texas town and a farming community, known as the Texas dairy capital. A few miles down the road is the world's oldest Dr. Pepper bottling plant. Nights are typically clear and bright and quiet.

However, dozens of eye-witnesses to the strange skyward events of January 8th, 2008 have come forth swearing up and down that they saw something inexplicable, but nothing that seemed natural, the least bit familiar, or within human technological capabilities. Business owners, farmers, and at least one pilot have given accounts and detailed descriptions of what they saw.

Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who witnessed the mysterious object, said that the UFO had to be a half-mile long, which squares with most other descriptions.

Machinist Ricky Sorrells watched the object through his rifle's telescopic lens. He's seen it more than once, but his friends mocked him until the Stephenville Lights finally got reported in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.

The U.S. Air Force at first reported that there were none of its aircraft flying from its two area bases--Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls -- during the week when the UFO was sighted.

However, the Air Force suddenly changed its story not long after the reports of the UFO sighting were spreading rapidly.

There had been a mistake "made regarding the reported training activity of military aircraft...10 F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations in the Brownwood Military Operating Area," announced Major Karl Lewis, spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, about two weeks after the furor over the UFO sightings.

While skeptics insist that the U.S. Air Force must have been conducting top-secret testing of top-secret new military technology, many witnesses, people who have sketched the object, and knowledgeable people remain quite skeptical of those skeptics.

Retired Air Force Col. Tom Ehrhardt, a former Pentagon chief of the Strategy, Concepts, and Doctrine Division, said, "That particular location for it seems improbable because, usually, we have more secure sites to do that sort of thing in than there."

19-year-old Stephenville resident David Coran made a videotape of UFO symbols in the sky on the nights of January 19th and January 20th.