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Were there alien spaceships flying over Stephenville, or are they part of some top secret military program? James Huse saw two large red orbs hovering above the City back on January 8th. "If they came from someplace else, then they came in peace, at least they did this time."
David Caron videotaped a wild light show in the sky on January 19th. "I just can't figure out what it is but I'd like to know what it is I would really like to know what I'd seen out there that night." Steve Hudgeons is hoping to get to the bottom of what everyone has been seeing. Hudgeons is a project manager at a construction company in Ft. Worth. He's also an investigator with the Mutual UFO Network or MUFON. We asked him why there were so many recent sightings of unexplained objects in the skies of Erath County he told us,"Well like I was telling you before I think the sightings have always remained the same a constant amount it's just that people don't report them because of the giggle factor." Hudgeons says MUFON went down to the Dublin/Stephenville area where all the sightings took place. They asked witnesses to write down everything they could remember. All that information will be put together as part of report MUFON expects to release later in March on the UFO's. While MUFON investigators in the Dallas Ft. Worth area are trying to get to the bottom of what exactly was in the skies over the Dublin Stephenville area, there's a man down in Glen Rose by the name of Steve Allen who's also hot on the trail of the ufo's. He was the first to spot them. The Glen Rose trucking company owner says he'd always wanted to see one, but never expected to actually have a close encounter. Now, he just wants some answers about the bright lights he saw on January 8th which were racing across the sky at what he says was the speed of light with air force jets in pursuit. "We're all pushing for a congressional hearing maybe the truth will come out that way." Angelia Joiner is a reporter with the Stephenville Empire Tribune. When she heard about Allen's ufo experience she says she knew she had a great story on her hands. One which ended up being front page headlines all over the world. But her story didn't go very far with airforce officials when she tried to get their side of the ufo sighting. " They said the jets were from their base in Fort Worth but on a training mission so when I asked questions similar to what you asked me they couldn't go into it for national security reasons we are a nation at war is what he said." We also asked the Air Force about the objects in the sky. A spokeswoman with the 301st fighter wing from Carswell Air Force base in Ft. Worth told us that the pilots were on a routine training mission and they didn't see anything unusual. While there are so many unanswered questions about the lights in the skies above Erath county, there's no question business has picked up because of the mystery. That part of the story is coming up on Wednesday night as t-shirt shops and even Dr. Pepper is getting in on the ufo craze. Michael Gibson Three News.