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They're baaaack: Texas residents report more UFO sightings
10:02 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 28, 2008
STEPHENVILLE — Over a three-month period this summer there were 1,000 UFO sightings filed with the National UFO Reporting Center.
Some 75 of those UFOs were reported over the state of Texas.
Stephenville is one hot spot we've shown you before.
Now the small town is getting buzzed by UFOs again.
"You could see the oval shape. Got my friend, I said 'dude, you got to come look at this,'" said Andy Monrreal.
Monrreal was hanging out with his Dublin High School friends when they all saw something they say looked like a UFO.
"You could see a shape. It was like a complete circle," said Monrreal.
He rolled off a half minute of video on his mom's digital camera.
His dad saw it too.
"I never seen nothing like that in my life. Big lights and everything," his father said.
So did mom.
"It was a round thing. You could see lights around it, flickering and changing. It was awesome. Just turning and flickering," she said.
Back in January, Erath County went UFO crazy after a handful of people reported similar lights over Stephenville.
International press and UFO hunters descended on the town.
This time, many more eye witnesses are phoning the Stephenville Empire Tribune or the ET.
"These don't look like conventional flying lights of any kind," said Jay Miller, aviation photographer.
Miller has snapped hundreds of different aircraft from all angles all over the world.He says lights don't appear to be F-16s.
"I'm not saying this isn't an airplane, but the arrangement, color what have you isn't what I would consider normal for a fixed wing plane," said Miller.
Some witnesses also reported seeing flares.
"I'm very familiar with flares, and they would react much differently than this," said Miller
The Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth confirms seven F-16s training in the area at the time. Several witnesses said they saw the fighters, but it was after they saw the mysterious lights.
Although Jay Miller is puzzled by the lights, the do leave him with one overriding impression.
"They don't look extra-terrestrial to me. They look very much man-made," said Miller.
E-mail jdouglas@wfaa.com.
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