NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE March 2009- Number 476 Editor: David Marler Co-Editor: J.D. Scarpellini Staff: Don & LaVonna Bertelsmann P.O. Box 1001, Edwardsville, IL 62025 Celebrating 40 years of circulation 1969 - 2009 $5.00 VVednesday,Feb. 11, 2009 THE CLIFTON R ECORD s Reported By ~alnut Spring~--- BY ANGELlA JOINER about 20 seconds. Then it would Residents, Others SPECIAL TO THE RECORD go off and reappear a little to the WALNUT SPRINGS--Slightly right or left of where it was." more than a year after the first Matt said the Dallas/Fort report of unknown objects in the Worth International Airport air night skies, now known as traffic route is near his home so Stephenville Lights, more wit he is accustomed to commercial nesses are surging forth. and private aircraft. Speculation abounds as to why Matt said the object appeared the mysterious objects continue about 25 to 30 degrees off the ho to fly over Erath County. rizon in the northwest sky to Bosque County and Walnut wards Stephenville. He said he Springs resident Matt Collins and could definitely see a dark mass his mother. Sharla, and sister, between the sets of lights. Ashlee, hew<; all said they have "I'm not sure how close or far witnessed bright lights in the sky away it was," Matt said. "It could that defy explanation. . . have been over Chalk Mountain. On .Jan. 29, Matt said he and h1s But, it was definitely in the direc sister were returning to their tion of Stephenville." home on ~:;'M 203 shortly after 7 Matt shoots photos and video p.m. He said t.'"ley had just b~en regularly so he grabbed his cam talking about the Stephenville era and began shooting only to sightings when his sister pointed later find a completely black and said, "'Look at that,"' Collin~ screen. In the excitement he had said. "I thought she was kidding ff)rgotten to take the lens filters at first because we had just been off he had been using the previ talking about the Stephenville ous day for shooting into the sun. s!ghtings." Matt and his sister. went out the bu't~; -~-ii~~-:~i~~;' Itj~~~f~~ft~:~;~ next night pr:~pvy 108 rc· him could also see the object and ti1rning to their home in made comments like, "Wow! Victoria Advocate Hamilton. Look at that.'' As they were turning Cody said They agreed the object was Victoria, TX 2-1-2009 he caught something out of the fairly low in the skies but esti- Continued next page ~ E·m'G-UivI·elink e Lhpeia nUelil.Usi.o nI..*s oefl sbeiwllhioenr.e~ ionf vfi.nv1dw o.mutu faolln .Ic ocman iasb otlu'"t' sbuecfh;1 • ipnlcaidcer. nttco; byY MouUseF.O:!, Nth euAndireFro thrcee Frereceodrodmso obftlaninfoerd- jeercst os uint thteh1e· es wkyh, oo hbajevcet ss etehne ysi mcainla'tr eobx-- omuarn My isltkayr sW tahya, ti: ;i ts toa kbeigs athned Ecoanrttha imnso sroe the unive~·se, without a doubt. does ex as Stephenville. mation Act were "inked plain or completely identify. • than 2 million years to go around it once. ist. In the V(tstne;;s of the universe we On the night of Jan. 8, 2008, a bunch of out" to a large extent, If so, can I hear from you, please? Think of all those stars-and all those are not aloae. . , witnesses and severcll radar sites saw and left more questions Maybe we can get our own mystery go- potential planets like ours. ·-Al)lct·l Einskin or detected "something" in the skies than they answered. ing, although I guess the chance of To those who might respond to my re On occasion, I check in with the MU over the Stephenville and Dublin areas Was it a-secret military solving it is minimal. quest, I will keep you anonymous if you FON llti-B:wner \taft' penal County Airport. GREENVILLE-No one is sure exactly what it 'The main light was a large, whitish light and was which reportedly hovered through the Hunt County skies this past weekend, but several had several orangey red lights that came from it people said they saw something. and circled the area. There also were two other white lights in the same area. On two occasions At least one civilian and three uniformed law light came out of the main one towards the enforcement officers reported seeing an ground. The white light on the main one would unidentified flying object north of Greenville go from a yellowish white to a bright white then Saturday night. back again. It also appeared to change shapes from round to oblong (horizontally) and back. It Similar sightings were also reported near The also had a green and blue along with red lights Colony in Denton County, according to Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks. especially on the bottom' the witness noted in a rather graphic description. 'It was real' she Meeks said his office received the first call about concluded. the object at around 9:20 p.m. Saturday, from a woman who lives along Farm-To-Market Road 2358 near Webb Hill Country Club. "She said it was hovering above her house," Meeks said. "It was real bright, then it went dim, then it went bright again. Then it moved away. It was moving from that area toward Dallas." The witness said the object did not sound like an aircraft or a helicopter and noted one of her relatives in The Colony also reported seeing a similar phenomenon later that night. And, they were not alone. "Three of my officers also saw a bright light," Meeks said, including the deputy who first responded to the sighting. "The officer who got the call was pretty close to Campbell." Meeks said he personally checked with L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, the local defense contractor who operates out of Majors Field Municipal Airport in Greenville. "They said they did not have anything in the air that night,'' Meeks said. .·-------- They're·b aaackt. From last page 0 ~ _A (I) Zen mated it could have been 60 de the bottom of a lampshade. It was ._o . . grees from the horizon and then a steady glow at the bottom." (I) I More mysterious objects reported made a slow descent to about 25 Clover said he likes to watch t::~ oN degrees. airplanes and he works at a place in the skies near Steph~nville · ''At first it appeared to be just where helicopters take off and (I)>< JOin. sitting there hovering," Clover land often so he was sure it was 0:: .... By AnJella said. "But, that might have been not one of those types of aircraft. (I) (I) Speciai to the Reporter-News · because it was moving towards "I don't know what it was. We c c to us and we couldn't tell that." weren't frightened," Clover said. :~c:~c S~culation abounds as why unlmoWil objects continue Cody said he thought it was "We were just watching it trying · to fly in the skies over E~atlf County. · . over:t he courthouse and moving to figure out what it was and it didn't <(<( · Slightly more than a year after the fttst rep<:>rt ofmys towards the City Limits bar on fit for anything I lmew. It was a clear U.S. Hwy 377 . descent and moving slowly and close . terious objects, now kl).o\Vn as Stephenville Lights, more "We thought it was landing," enough to the ground to make you .· witnesses are coming forth. Walnut Springs resident Matt Clovnr said. think it was landing." Collins and bis inother, 'Sharla, and sister Ashlee have all All said they saw a double row Cody said the group drove on ·said they have witnessed bright lights in the sky that defy of horizontal lights. in the direction of U.S. Hwy 377 explanation. · · . · . "It was big. I estimate the di but couldn't find the object again. . On Thursday Matt said he and his sister were re~ . men$ions this way," Clover said. A reporter from WB 33 said the to their home on FM 203 shortly after 7 p.m. He smd:they "Th~ bottom row of lights was six Bosque county Sheriff's office ~d just been talkirig about the Stephenville sightings.when - to eight times larger than the dis dispatcher received four calls re ·· his sister pointed and said,·' "Look at that,'" C~J.lin:s said. "I tanc~ between the horizontal porting something unusual. thought she was kidding at fllSt because we had just been rows of lights. A reliable source reported a talking about the Stephenville sightings.'~ · "I am not an alarmist - I don't Dublin police officer caught an · . "My sister saw three light sets but by the·t im~ I located go looking for these things," Clo unidentified flying object on cam _-then:Hb.~r.e. was.9MJ>__D_e.. . J.heli.&:hts wouldco~Qn and_s_Qy:_ ver said. "The top row appeared era on the evening of Jan. 29. to have the color red and green '1\vo people in the Abilene area on for about 20 seconds. Then it would go off and reappear a or blue. The bottom appeared to also reported sightings to the Mu little to the right or left of where it was." . . be white like light coming out of tual UFO Network web site. Matt said thea ii traffic route for Dallas/Fort Worth Inter-. s.o national Airport is near his home he is accustomed ~0 the . presence of commercial and private aircraft. . Matt said the object appeared about 25 to 30 d¢gt'ees·o ff '65 Kecksburg mystery the .horizon in the northwest sky toWard Stephenville. He · a said ·he could qefuiitely see dark mass between the s~ts on ~UEO. Hunters' show oflights. . .·· "I'm notsure how close or far away it was," Matt said. "It . could have been over Chalk Mountain. But, it was defmitely Nobody knows exactly what came down in the direction of Stephenville." · . . ·. from the sky on Dec. 9, 1965, in Westmore land County, landing ln a secluded wooded . ·Then on Saturday it was back. This time it Was ab~ut 9'.30 · section of Kecksburg in Mt. Pleasant Town p.m., shQrtlyafter ¥att appeel!'ed on: the WB.33 (~AF,-TV. ship. of Dallas/Fort Worth) news disCU$Smg the s1ghting he had Theories have suggested a weather ·witnessed tw9 nightS before. · . . ___ E~~on, a m~teor..!.a Jl!lssll~-~~ ~rha~s it_ ____ "Iran in the house and got my sister and woke up my · · wa-s somethinglrom anotlier worlift at moin," Matt said. He also took video .'footage of the inci touched down on that cold, winter night. dent, he said. · ·. The History Channel's .. UFO Hunters" ·-Sharh said she was an,uzed. . vlslted the site in September, spending "I always thought people that said they s.aw UFOs were three days interviewing local witnesses crazy," Sharla·said.··"Now, I think there is defmitely some- and those who have studied the incident. thing out there that we don'~ kwnaosw about." · . . · The program, hosted by William J. .·The family said, the objeCt visible for. about fJ.ft~n Birnes, Pat Uskert and Dr. Ted Acworth, minutes and had a red center but that the outs1de of the light will air at 10 p.m. Wednesday. changed from red !O yellow, to white and bright o~e • . CNN called Matt·on Monday and made arrangements to a . show the filin he'tookin futUre broadcast. . History Channel hovers over Kecksburg Wednesdays episode of w.ant to k~ow "w?,at happened that change directions a series of mght back m 1965? times finally landing in the "UEf2Hunters" explores The History Channel sh.ow 1s not the wood~ near Kecksburg. the 196.5 mystery. only one that ~as delved mto the inci- "Witnesses said that it didn't ~ent. The subJect. h~~~~~n .trea~ ?n come crashing down but it BY MARJL YN FORBES UnsolvedMysteries, Sightings, DIS· came down slowly like a con· covery Channel" and "Sci-Fi" station. trolled landing" Gordon said. TRIBUHE·AMEW NEWS SERVICE "The intere~ting !hing about the "It landed, and then there was a What object came down ftom the sky, Kecksburg incident IS -there were so puff of blue smoke that dissi landing in a sech~ded wooded section of ~any ~ople involved," Gordon said. pated quickly." Kecksburg in Mt. Pleasant Township The History Channel contacted me The show will focus on what more than 40 years ago remains a mys afld interviewed me people witnessed and their feel· tery. t>?thathomeandatthe ings about what happened that Theories have suggested a weather ..lte,. and there were night. balloon, a meteor, a missile, or perhaps also many oth~rs who "People want answers," Gor· Cont. it was something from another world they talked to. don said. "More and more peo- that touched down on that cold winter, On Dec. 9, 1965, an ple are finally admitting that night. object was spotted in something did happen, and I j'There are also accounts -or - The History Channel's "UFO the ~arkenlng sk.ies, think they want to know once someone having photographs of Hunters" visited the site in September movmg over ?Itts· and for a11 what that object 2008. They spent three days interview burgh and heading to , the object, Gordon said. The rumor has been circulating for ing local witnesses and others such as the Greensburg area. waws. . t t 11 of an acorn "There were so 1 nesses e · years that there are black and radio personality Stan Wall, who was many witnesses who shaped object, partially embed· white photographs out there, manning the air waves that night at saw something in the ded in the ground, with what and if they would come for radio station WHJB, and Stan Gordon, sky. that night," Gor- appeared to be strange hiero ward, it would solve the mys· recognized by many to be the foremost authority on the UFO incident. donsaid. "Hundredsofpeoplesaw.what glyphic lettering. It is docu tery once and for all." "I've been interested in the Kecks manythoughtwasaplaneonf"ll'e m the men ted that witnesses saw The History Channel's "UFO burg incident since the night that it sky:• masses of military personnel in Hunters," hosted by William J. happened, and I've been researching it The object, unlike a natural occur- the area and a large, flatbed Birnes, Pat Uskert and Dr. Ted ever since," Gordon said. "Now the case rencesuchasameteor, was reported to truck leave the area with an Acworth, will air at 10 p.m. has drawn not only national but inter item covered in a tarp. Wednesday. national attention, and many people SEE UFO • 86 Continued --+ "'C ~ Q) ::t: .!! ·>- oCJ) .!. (,)(") ._N ·0--c-I The double-paned energy-saving glass Anch-o~ Feb. 18. · man-like or sometimes more ape Encounters with strange crea When Gordon first began inves like creatures reported statewide. A tures and sightings of mysterious tigating UFO sightings and other objects in the sk-y were reported strange reports, he found that while very active area is along the from many locations from through many sightings reported seemed Chestnut Ridge in Westmoreland, out the Keystone State last year, initially odd, many were deter- Fayette, and l(ldiana counties. according to Greensburg researcher ·mined to be natural or man-made In While such sightings are reportedly Stan Gordon, who has been investi origin. Many UFO sightings, for yearly, the number of such reports gating and logging such reports for example, can be explained as bright has dropped in recent years. nearly 50 years. planets and stars, meteors and The Pennsylvania Bigfoot During 2008, reports of unusual searchlight beams. Some Bigfoot Society (PBS) received a report incidents originated from 50 coun observations were determined to be from Warren County in May, that a ties in the Keystone State. That is large dogs or bear. In recent. woman had seen such a creature an increase over 2007, when such months, many UFO reports that climb up her lattice and onto her reports were received from 37 Gordon received of a very bright back deck. She watched it from her counties. Some of the strange inci light low in the southwestern sky patio door as it climbed over the dents reported included sightings was determined to be the planet railing and departed. Gordon of Unidentified Flying Objects, Venus. But not all mysterious received a report that a man and _his Bigfoot, giant birds, mountain sightings can be explained away so son in August, also in rural Warren lions, strange sounds and mysteri easilv. County. observed a seven-foot-tall, ous footprints. S~:n~ of the more interesting hair-cover~J creature with very Gordon, who began his interest 2008 mysterious events from long swinging arms, cross a road into mysterious happenings at age Pennsylvania include: way with very long steps and enter I0 in 1959, began conducting on • Giant bird sighlings. There a wooded area. scene investigations of such mat has been a history from Gordon also received reports of ters after the Kecksburg UFO inci Pennsylvania and other states of strange screaming sounds coming dent in 1965. sightings of giant birds with enor from along the Chestnut Ridge near In 1969 he started taking phone mous wingspans that are occasion Latrobe. An experienced woods calls from th'e public, from those ally reported, and are commonly man came across 18-inch-long, wanting to report alleged UFO referred to as "thunderbirds." In five-toed footprints, unlike any sightings. In 1970, he founded the recent years the reports of these thing he had ever seen before, first of three volunteer scientifical huge flying creatures have while hiking in the Forbes State ly orient~u r~s~arch groups that increased. Forest above Rector on Aug. 22. remained active for many years Researcher Jim Brown investi • UFO sightings. While a lot of which investigated UFO sightings gated an incident which occurred UFO activity was reported from the and Bigfoot encounters, as well as on the afternoon of May 20, on a eastern portions of the state, many other strange events around the major · roadway in Washington UFO sightings were reported in state. County. Motorists reportedly western Pennsylvania and else Gordon continues to investigate pulled off the road to watch as a where. While spherical and disc and document such matters as an huge dark-colored flying creature shaped objects were reported as independent researcher. Gordon is that looked more like a giant bat well as fonnations of luminous also the primary investigator of the than a bird, circled low, and passed objects, there were numerous trian 1965 UFO crash incident near over some cars. One witness gular-shaped objects sighted as Kecksburg. The researcher contin noticed that the wingspan extended well. ues to investigate that UFO inci heyond the edges 'of the two-lane On July 2, near Connellsville, dent which has gained international highway. Additional such reports witnesses observed a triangular interest. He will he appearing on an originated From Harrisburg to shaped object with a curved bottom upcoming History Channel, "UFO northern sections of the state. and numerous lights. The silent • Bigfoot sightings. Over the Cont. object passed overhead and moved after a few minutes. Soon after, a of the being gave the impression toward the Yough River. During the second object, shaped like a glow- that it was gliding. early morning hours of Aug. 12, in ing footbaJJ, moved rather fast On that same date in nearby a rural area between. Greensburg across the sky, then suddenly Tioga County, witnesses observed and Youngwood, a witness stopped, then dropped lower a silent bright solid cigar-shaped observed what was described as toward the ground. With binocu- object approaching from the north, "two huge double headlights" side . Iars, the object appeared round, and suddenly fade out and vanish by side, and slightly yellow in with evenly spaced lights. as it moved overhead. color, hovering low just above the It was during the early morning Gordon continues to receive hours of Oct. 4 that two hunters in sighting reports from the public via road. The silent lights rose up from Elk County encountered something his-UFO Hotline at 724-838-7768. -------~-g~9._~nd an_Q_~~-y~d_ _ ?ff over~~ ..... .unusual...As._!P~Y~~

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