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Radar shows UFO flying towards Bush ranch
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 STEPHENVILLE, US. The long-awaited
investigation of the Stephenville, Texas, UFO sightings in January,
conducted by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), has obtained radar
confirmation of a mysterious unknown object in the area whose movements
match those reported by some of the witnesses.
The previously unknown radar evidence has been collected through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made by MUFON investigators Glen Schulze and Robert Powell. It is contained in their detailed and technical 77-page report, “Stephenville Lights: A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding The Events of January 8, 2008, 4pm to 8pm”, released on 10 July.
 Sensationally, the radar track confirms witness reports that the unidentified object was travelling in a direct line towards President Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch – sometimes referred to as “the Texas [or Western] White House” – just outside Crawford. Radar lost track of it when it was only 10 miles away from the ranch. [Our picture (left) shows the President taking the media on a tour of the ranch in August 2001, a little over two weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.]
According to reputable witnesses, the object moved slowly at times but also seemed capable of accelerating to very high speeds, then slowed down or hovered. The radar data appears to corroborate these unusual characteristics.
Though there were media reports of photographic and video evidence of the sighting, these are not discussed in the report. An image contained in the report showing four lights (above) is an artist’s impression superimposed on the exact location, based on witness testimony.
 Schulze and Powell submitted FOI requests to 10 organisations. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Weather Service both provided radar data within five weeks of the request. The FAA – whose goal is “to improve the safety and efficiency of aviation, while being responsive to our customers and accountable to the public” – is congratulated by the MUFON investigators for its helpfulness and responsiveness to the enquiry.
The FAA provided around 2.8 million radar returns on a CD containing 139 megabytes of data covering the three-and-a-half-hour period during which witnesses were reporting the object.
There was, on the other hand, “no radar information provided by any of the US military branches that defend this nation”. The report notes that responses from the military were almost identical, declaring: “We have found no records responsive to your request.” That phrase, the authors observe, is not even a “No”. What does it mean?
“It is basically a refusal to provide any information,” they suggest.
It certainly seems beyond belief that the military, which had radar-equipped jets flying in the area and also radar installations at nearby bases – including Fort Hood into which Air Force One flies when the President visits his ranch retreat – had no radar returns for unknown objects, whereas the FAA radar did detect an unknown object and tracked it for extended periods.
The report comes to no conclusion about what the object was or its origin, apart from confirming that it was real, physical and huge. Its minimum size was calculated at 520 feet, which is over twice the length of passenger airliners, and other witness testimonies put its size at around 1,000 feet.
Twice, radar picked up an unknown object flying at 1,900-2,100 mph.
“In light of what happened on 9/11, what if the unknown object had been a terrorist aircraft? The Air Force should explain what their radar detected on the evening of January 8, 2008, and the reason as to why the military jets in the area did not react,” Schulze and Powell comment, and they conclude their report with these words:
“We are a nation of freedom that is based on a set of principles designed to maintain our individual liberties. When our government bodies reach a point that they do not feel compelled to honour the requests of their citizenry, as defined by the laws of this nation, we have taken a path that allows the government to arbitrarily and secretly decide what we should and should not know. The American people have a right to know what did or did not occur on January 8, 2008 in the Dublin-Stephenville area.”
To download their full report visit MUFON’s website.
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Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008
Category: UFOs
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