TX UFOs - A Report
Last Saturday, a couple of friends of mine, Terry Groff and James Shatley, of the Dallas-Fort Worth MUFON Group, drove to Stephenville and met with several other friends and colleagues to investigate the recent UFO encounters in the area. Here’s Terry’s report on the day:
FROM TERRY GROFF:
It was sheer madness in Dublin, Texas on Saturday.
A team of MUFON investigators met with approximately 40 witnesses amid the circus that was the hottest thing to hit Dublin, Texas since they opened the oldest Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant in the world in 1891. (They still use the original formula)
Our team consists of:
Ken Cherry - Texas State Director
Robert Powell - Director of Research, Field Investigator (FI)
David Keel - State Section Director (SSD), FI
Mike DeGroff - SSD, FI
Steve Hudgeons - Assistant State Director (ASD), Sr. FI
James Shatley - ASD
Myself - FI
Gary Neitzel - FI
Paula Schermerhorn - FI
(Gary Neitzel was unable to go to Dublin but will be employed on subsequent interviews)
I rode down to Dublin with ASD James Shatley. We could tell we were approaching Stephenville with the myriad of business marquees saying things like “Aliens Welcome” and “ET prefers Purple Tacos”. We saw no such signs in Dublin but I’m sure they were there.
We arrived shortly before noon and it seemed relatively quiet. The meeting was hosted by the local Rotary Club who graciously offered their hall for our use.
We walked in and there were only a handful of people there including our team. I thought to myself that perhaps this might be easier than we first thought. There was media there including NBC and FOX but there wasn’t a crush of curiosity seekers… yet.
Just before 1:00 pm the madness began. Ultimately there would be around 500 people filling the hall designed for 200 people. We had the usual suspects that we quickly put in their place, particularly anyone who attempted to come in wearing tin foil hats. They were instantly told to remove them.
I was truly worried that the media would scare away many witnesses and I was right. Many did leave or never showed up because they were afraid of over-exposure. Yet, many did stay and we interviewed around 40 witnesses from all walks of life and age ranges. I personally interviewed a Grade School Teacher, an Anesthesiologist, a College Instructor, a Rancher, an Escrow Closer, a Day Care Worker and a retired Agronomist.
After a brief introduction of our team we began the interview process. We secured a separate room but it was far from secluded. We didn’t allow the media in the room with a couple of exceptions, but the room was still exposed through the open double doors and there were constant cameras poking through the door to get their shots. I did see my face on the evening news in Dallas.
I noticed that this event drew people out that otherwise would not have reported what they saw, mainly because they didn’t know how or to whom. Oddly, none of the witnesses I interviewed were witness to the event(s) of January 8th - all were from December ‘07 - none of which correlated with the others. My witness’ reports consisted of a Black Triangle, Neon Green Orbs, repeating orange explosions and one CE3 in the witness’ bedroom. This witness also stated that they had been being abducted for years but it had been more than 10 years since the last.
This investigation is ongoing and our intention is to return to Dublin in about a month to do more interviews in which the media will not be invited nor allowed to attend. We plan to publish our results in the April issue of The MUFON UFO Journal.
Peace
Terry Groff
The Dallas - Fort Worth Mutual UFO Network
http://mufondfw.org
NOTE FROM NICK:
Here’s the latest on the incident from the Air Force. As you’ll see, the AF are now saying they did have aircraft in the air at the time of the event: no less than ten F-16s. That’s right: ten. And it took them this long to uncover that not-insignificant fact? I can just about accept the possibility that they overlooked one solitary F-16 flying around. But ten of them…??!!
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Jan 24 2008 
January 24th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Smooth move from the Air Force there…NOT.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
This gets curiouser and curiouser. I can see the AF getting relevent info
lost-its still a Goverment agency, after
all-and I tend toward the belief that
the real ’secret’ that the ‘goverment’
is keeping is that it doesn’t really
know anything more than the rest of us.
Once again, though, the sense I get out of all of this is how little sense
it makes. The range of “craft” sighted,
the nature of the sightings ( were there
any daytime sightings?)the apparent lack
of radar traces…all this points my
thoughts in the direction of the ultraterrestrial…
January 25th, 2008 at 2:36 am
As a former USAF member who was stationed at Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base aka Carswell AFB of the Roswell incident infamy, I can tell you that putting 10 F-16’s into the air on a weekday is a quite an undertaking for a Reserve unit. So this tells me that this incident was scheduled because of the amount of support personnel required to deploy that many aircraft. Again, I’ll repeat that this was likely a secret military aircraft and the F-16’s were likely deployed to train against this type of aircraft.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:42 am
crgintx,
How typical would you guess it is for Reserve units to train against top secret aircraft over the general population at low altitudes? I’m not a military man so I have no idea if this is likely or not but on the surface it strikes me as humorous.
Is there historical precedent for this…ie Reserve units training against the F-117 in unrestricted airspace while it was still a secret aircraft? If the aircraft is secret it seems like such an exercise would be so visible as to seriously risk compromising the secret…and for the purpose of training some Reserve pilots?
January 26th, 2008 at 1:29 am
You’ve misunderstood the training scenario: the the Reserve fighters aren’t informed of the target of their intercept mission. After 50 years of ufo disinformation campaign, unconventional, secret military aircraft can operate virtually anytime day or night. Outside hardcore ETH’ers, 95% of the public will ridicule or at least disbelieve everthing short of a crashed ufo on the White House lawn and even then they could blame such an event on terrorists. The Reserve pilots are all debriefed and then the mission is classified Secret Compartmentalized Info and not even the President could get access without a need-to-know basis. That’s standard Information-Security procedure. The whole flap could be nothing more than an exercise to see where the real info flows or to gauge public reaction. Do you really believe that Project Beta was the last or only UFO disinfo campaign conducted by the US Intelligence community?
January 26th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Let me further elaborate about USAF Reserve standard operating procedures. The USAFR does fly during the week but generally 2 or 4 aircraft formations because it takes a great deal of support to put a fighter aircraft into the air and most Reservists are only there on weekends. Many of the pilots have normal full time jobs and it requires them to be there at least 4-6 hours for a one-hour flying mission. For those 10 F-16 aircraft to fly at the same time or even in the same day requires hundreds of support personnel to be present to prepare and recover the aircraft before/after the training mission. It’s not like the movies where the pilots are jumping in their aircraft and zooming into combat. Given the supposed $2 trillion of missing Defense spending over the last 30 years, the DoD could have hundreds of secret weapons projects not just aircraft/ufo’s. If foreign nations are willing to spend billions on what are basically our second-tier military technology, our bleeding edge/secret military technology would be virtually indistinguishable from what is now considered science fiction. IMHO I firmly believe that the USAF has possessed a single stage to low-earth orbit aero/spacecraft for at least 20 years.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Visibility seems to be the critical component here. It seems obvious to me that, top secret aircraft or not, they either wanted this thing to be seen or didn’t care if it was seen. I lean strongly towards the former. Is this a reasonable assertion?
It seems logical to me, as expressed by many before me on the nature of the Big Black Triangles, that if secrecy was actually the goal they would be doing their tests and training in controlled airspace. At the very least they wouldn’t be running around with a spectacular light show. If you were a Chinese or Russian intelligence officer how would you interpret news reports of a flap like this?