Close Encounters of the Stephenville Kind

Investigators from the Mutual UFO Network, known as MUFON, descended upon the sleepy farming community of Stephenville Saturday, Jan. 19, to look into a rash of recent UFO sightings that have captured national attention in the past few weeks.

Eight MUFON investigators, who are certified upon completion of a MUFON-mandated course of study and apprenticeship, spent four hours taking accounts from locals, compiling at least 50 reports, said Texas MUFON Director Ken Cherry, who is leading the investigation. Cherry said there’s a high amount of consistency to the accounts so far. He added that Erath county, where Stephenville is located, has a history of sightings dating back to the Seventies.

Cherry also claimed MUFON has already disproved the explanation offered by the Air Force that the strange lights seen were an illusion created by light reflected off two passenger jets – this is easily falsifiable with airline records, he said. “We use the scientific method, until we’ve exhausted that approach and determine that it’s an unknown,” he said.