(July 12, 2008)—An extensive new report based on witness accounts and an analysis of FAA and National Weather Service radar data concludes that a mysterious object that at least 17 people saw on Jan. 8 in the sky over the Stephenville-Dublin area was bigger and faster than any known aircraft and was on a direct course toward the president’s ranch near Crawford.
The data show that radar twice tracked slow-moving objects for extended periods of time and that one of those objects “was traveling to the southeast on a direct course towards the Crawford Ranch, also known as President Bush’s western White House,” the report says.
“The last time the object was seen on radar at 8:00 p.m., it was continuing on a direct path to Crawford Ranch and was only 10 miles away.” the report says.
Radar data show that a number of military jets were in the air at the same time, the report says, “but there is no indication that any of the military jets reacted to this unknown aircraft that was without a required transponder, and that was headed directly to the Western White House.”
The president wasn’t at the ranch at the time.
He arrived in Central Texas the day after Christmas and returned to Washington on New Year’s Day.
He didn’t return to the ranch until the end of February.
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The report has already received national attention.
CNN’s Larry King featured the findings night in a segment titled, “UFOs” Target Texas?”
The report was released by an organization called the Mutual UFO Network, which earlier this year interviewed residents who say they had spotted something mysterious in the night skies over Stephenville.
Investigators from the group met over a weekend in late January at the Stephenville Rotary Club Building with about 200 people who said they saw what may have been UFOs in the sky over the community in late December and early January.
In May, the organization said most of the reported sightings in Central Texas dairy country earlier this year were probably planets, cloud formations or stars.
The new report, however, focuses solely on one or more objects that residents said they saw between 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 8.
“Seventeen different reports were obtained regarding sightings on January 8th,” the report says.
“This is a very large number of sightings to occur during only one day and within a four hour period of time.
“Eight of these reports provided sufficient detail to identify a time and direction of the signing of the object,” the report says.
“Witnesses…included a constable, a chief of police, a private pilot and a former air traffic control operator,” the report said.
The report concludes first that what the witnesses saw was “definitely a real and physical object.”
The report concludes the smallest size the object or objects could have been based on witness descriptions was 524 feet in length, and that most calculations indicate an object closer to 1,000 feet in size.
If the two objects picked up by radar were actually the same one, then “the object moved at about 2,100 mph,” the report said.
“And to further augment the strangeness of these events,” the report concludes, radar tracked one of those two objects for over an hour as it traveled directly toward Crawford Ranch.”
The report will be reviewed at MUFON’s 39th annual UFO Symposium from July 24 to July 27 in San Jose, Calif.
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