“I’m looking directly at this craft and it starts pivoting upward
at a 35 to 40 degree angle off the left ‘wingtip.’ It rises there for about three seconds and then it goes completely 90 degrees and starts moving away from me, all without sound!” - “Greg,” Erath County Police Officer

December 17, 2008 Stephenville, Texas - Almost one year ago, at the end of January 2008, I flew to Texas to talk with eyewitnesses and see videotapes, photos and sketches of the many unidentified aerial craft sightings reported that month over Stephenville, Dublin, Selden, Glen Rose and surrounding region. That group of rural towns is southwest of Dallas/Fort Worth. One eyewitness in January was Lee Roy Gaitan, Erath County Constable for Precinct 2, officed in Dublin, a town of about 4,000 people only eight miles southwest of Stephenville. Stephenville is the larger Erath County seat with about 15,000 residents.

Police Officer “Greg,” Erath County, Stephenville, Texas: “It was January 8, 2008. I had just come on duty. I work a 12-hour shift from 7 PM to 7 AM. I was driving towards the east on South Loop, which is a loop that loops around the city of Stephenville. I was starting to crest the top of a railroad overpass. As I got to the top of that overpass, it’s raised quite a bit. I can see half the way across town from atop the overpass. I was looking to my left towards downtown and the Erath County Courthouse (100 W. Washington). And I saw a large, rectangular, black object, just slowly moving towards the Courthouse. I saw it for maybe three to four seconds.

Then I went down the crest of the hill and I thought to myself that it was a rather large aircraft of some kind. I’ve never seen anything that low moving that slow. It concerned me for a minute. I thought that maybe we have a commercial airliner trying to land at our little airport that can’t support that (an aerial craft so large). So, I went further down the South Loop and got to about Lillian Street and looked towards the Courthouse again. I had a pretty good view. It’s winter. It’s January. There was no foliage on the trees and I saw this large craft hovering above the Courthouse about 200 feet above the ground.

He said, ‘Well, there are two other officers here who saw it, too.’ So he got me in touch with them and we all met and decided to do our own little investigation. One of the officers was at his house when he witnessed it. The other officer was going home from work. He gets off at 7 PM. He drove directly beneath it and it was about 200 feet off the ground to the south of Stephenville out in the county on a farm on Market Road.

The other officer was at home and was in his backyard. He lives up on a ridge. He said the craft was lower than him and down in a valley and it started going up a ridge across from him.

On top of this ridge was a telephone pole and underneath the telephone pole was a pickup truck with its headlights on. As the craft went up the ridge, almost hitting the phone pole. He said the craft just barely cleared it. The big craft went directly over that pickup. We’ve yet to find out who that is, by the way! (laughs) But they had one fantastic view of this craft. That officer saw the top of it and that’s where we got the drawing for the top of the craft.

THIS HAS NOT BEEN PUBLICIZED VERY MUCH, HAS IT?

No, and I don’t know why it hasn’t. The local Stephenville newspaper did not mention it at all. The couple and a few others talked to MUFON about it.

HOW MANY TOTAL EYEWITNESSES?

I know of at least five that I know about. I think there might have been a total of about eight to ten at the MUFON meeting. I believe Angelia Joiner did the interviews for MUFON.

ANY SKETCHES OR PHOTOS TURNED UP?

No, and the couple is still shook up and wants to remain anonymous. The female is the only one who went in to make the report. The male would not even go in (to MUFON meeting). But I did talk to them and verify that’s what they saw.
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This case I believe to be real and suspect it is military.