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Stephenville, United States

Stephenville sightings tracked by FAA radar

Dozens of residents around Stephenville, Texas, report large, fast-moving, brightly lit objects in the night sky. A subsequent FOIA release of FAA radar data confirms anomalous tracks consistent with witness reports.

On the evening of 8 January 2008, residents in and around Stephenville, Erath County, Texas, reported observing extremely bright, fast-moving lights in the night sky, sometimes pursued by what witnesses identified as military fighter aircraft. Initial military statements denied any flight activity in the area; subsequent statements from the Air Force Reserve at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth acknowledged that ten F-16s had been on a training mission.

The Mutual UFO Network filed Freedom of Information Act requests for FAA radar data covering the time and area of the sightings. The released data, analyzed by Glen Schulze and former Federal Aviation Administration accident investigator Robert Powell, identified an unidentified track moving at speeds reaching approximately 2,100 mph and crossing into the prohibited airspace of the President's then-vacation residence in Crawford, Texas, hours after the visual sightings.

Primary sourceFederal Aviation Administration FOIA release / MUFON
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