UFO Over Texas

Artists rendition of Stephenville UFO which looks nothing like its description .

UFO investigators will travel to Stephenville Texas to talk with eye witnesses who saw a strange phenomenon in the skies.

Dozens of people said they saw mystery lights in the sky last week, although strangely enough there are no photographs of them.

Lee Roy Gaitan, a local constable , said he noticed a strange light outside his home near Stephenville about an hour after sunset last Tuesday.

"I saw two red glows," Gaitan said. "They glowed, and then they kind of faded and glowed again. I put down my beer and I looked again.

I thought, 'That's just not right so I pulled out my side arm and got a few shots off at it before it disappeared.

"When his 8-year-old son Ryan came outside, the red glow had turned bright white. he also managed to get a couple of shots off at it.

"It looked faster than a jet," Gaitan said then he saw the lights move around in the sky."They were really, really bright." "What was so astonishing was the speed that this thing took off," Gaitan said.

"I mean, it took off so fast like a Mexican over a wall."

Dozens of others out in the area, including a pilot, a teacher and business owners, reported seeing the same thing all claimed to have taken a shot at it but the teacher is well known for being a terrible shot.

The U.S. Air Force said it had no planes in the area that night and if they had it would be classified so they wouldn't tell you even if they did know something.

"It wasn't an airplane," Gaitan said. "It wasn't a meteor, because it wouldn't have been bouncing around.

It wasn't just one light.""The lights were like nothing on Earth. I had never seen anything like that -- never," Gaitan said.

A major at the Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth suggested the incident might have been an illusion caused by the sunset and commercial jetliners also Venus was quite bright that night and Global warming must also be taken into account.

The phenomenon has attracted the attention of UFO buffs/nuts and the Stephenville gift shop that has mysteriously just opened is fully stocked with UFO souvenirs.

2007 has been named "The year of the UFO" as so many have been seen, especially over the UK , it looks like this trend is spilling over into 2008.