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From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflj@intrex.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [permaculture] UFO in texas pursued by military jets, say 
witnesses - Boing Boing




http://www.empiretribune.com/articles/2008/01/10/news/news02.txt>
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ossible UFO sighting
hursday, January 10, 2008 11:16 AM CST
Four area residents witness mysterious object, lights in Selden sky
By ANGELIA JOINER Staff Writer
Steve Allen, Mike Odom and Lance Jones were out admiring a beautiful Texas 
unset Tuesday evening when they saw 
omething none of them can explain.
Allen called it an unidentified flying object. And, because he's been a 
private 
ilot for more than 30 years, he has a 
ittle more experience judging air speeds and distances than most.
“We all flipped out,” Allen said. “I didn't sleep a wink last night.”
Allen was at the home of Mike Odom in Selden about 6:15 p.m. when they 
suddenly 
oticed flashing lights about “3,500 
eet above ground level,” he said.
“The ship wasn't really visible and was totally silent, but the lights 
spanned 
bout a mile long and a half mile wide,” 
llen said. “The lights went from corner to corner. It was directly above 
ighway 67 traveling towards Stephenville at a 
igh rate of speed - about 3,000 miles per hour is what I would estimate.”
Allen said the lights were not those of a normal aircraft. He said they were 
ore like strobe lights, and while they 
ere all watching, the lights reconfigured themselves from a single horizontal 
ine into two sets of vertical lights.
“The two sets were approximately one-quarter of a mile apart,” Allen said. 
“Then 
hey turned into dirty burning flames. 
he flames were not blue. They were white in color. About two seconds later it 
isappeared completely.”
Allen said they were all scratching their heads and talking about what it 
could 
ave been, when approximately 10 minutes 
ater, the object flew overhead again.
“This time it came from the west traveling east towards Glen Rose,” Allen 
said. 
And it was about two or three miles 
outh of 67, and two military jets, possibly F16s, were in pursuit.”
“I was asking, “Are you guys seeing that?” Allen said.
Mike Odom said he didn't have trouble sleeping but it was a “wild experience.”
“It's unexplainable,” Odom said. “It was something not natural; it was moving 
ay too fast.”
Odom said he saw one other unexplainable object in the sky in 1978 when he 
was 
n Arizona.
“Back then something flew over with lights all around,” Odom said. “I think 
this 
hing bothered all of us, but it 
robably bothered Steve more because he's a pilot and he flies a lot.”
“It was neat,” Lance Jones said. “It was something. I've never seen anything 
ike it before but it didn't scare me. I 
ust figured it was military.”
Odom's wife, Claudette, said she was previously employed as a flight 
attendant.
“Lights were going up and down the side,” she said. “There was no sound, just 
he lights. It was moving so fast. It 
asn't a plane. I know how planes move. Honestly, I think it was a UFO. It was 
o fast you couldn't have put your finger 
n it and move it fast enough to follow it.”
Allen said he has never seen a UFO until now, but he did suspect there was 
omething to UFO stories all along.
“I was very surprised to finally get my eyes on one,” Allen said. “If anybody 
lse saw this and got pictures I hope they 
ill contact me.”
Allen said he has already reported the sighting to Washington, and is in the 
rocess of writing a report on the event.
Allen is the owner of L & S Enterprises and Texas Freight in Glen Rose. He 
can 
e contacted at 254-898-1117.
The group plans to return to Odom's house and keep an eye on the sky in the 
near 
uture, hoping to see it again.
ANGELIA JOINER is a staff writer for the Empire-Tribune. She can be reached 
at 
ngelia.joiner@empiretribune.com or 
54-965-3124,ext. 238.
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