They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

I’m sure most of you read or heard the CNN story a week or so ago about the dozens of people in Stephenville Texas who reported seeing what many of them thought was a UFO. Then there were the people who thought it was a sign of the end of times. I bet The Gump would fit right in with this group.

The more rational people reported seeing a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. One fella said it was a mile long and half a mile wide.
Federal officials said there was a logical explanation. Must have been an Airplane.

I read this on 1/15/08 and for several days something about the story kept bugging me.
When I say I read it the truth is I scanned it to get the main points. I finally went back to the copy I printed and read it more closely and there it was.

“People in several towns who reported who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.”

That was a strange thing to bury in the middle of a story that wasn’t getting much play anywhere. If I was the editor the fact that there had been sightings around the area for several weeks would have been the story. So I did a little search and found something strange.

Dublin, Texas. Home of the real Dr. Pepper, about the same date as the Stephenville sightings.
Ricky Sorrells saw a large flat metallic object hovering over the pasture behind his house. When he told his friends they made fun of him. He said he’s seen the object several times. Must be a weather balloon.

Hico, Texas 11/17/07
Unnamed witnesses reported seeing a bright red light in the night sky at their ranch at about 4 AM.
It traveled very fast and at extreme angles left, right, up, down, and then return to its original position. When they tried to take pictures it didn’t capture it. Taking pictures of the night sky came out fine though. Obviously a case of swamp gas. Are there any swamps near Hico Texas?

McKenney, Texas. 12/13/07
Lisa and her husband while driving at night saw a bright green flash in the sky. Not much it could be other than an alien invasion. The Men in Black will mobilize at once.

Comanche, Texas. 1/08/08
Another case of seeing bright red lights in the shy moving very fast and stopping turning white and separating into two. Maybe someone’s laser pointer shining on an errant weather balloon.

Denton, Texas. 1/11/08
Another unnamed source, go figure. Observed while driving home early in the morning bright white lights traveling at eye level and about 30 miles an hour. It hugged the shore line and the witness slowed down and observed the craft as it went past. It made no sound at all and appeared to be metallic with panels and what seemed to be a canopy and on the bottom three bright white lights. Must have been some kid’s science fair experiment.

Fort Sam Houston Army Base 1/17/08
Someone who lives outside the base. I can’t understand why their so shy.
Observed a Giant pyramid with lights about 300 feet in the air. It was traveling slowly and had no wings. They observed it landing either on the base or just off it, but in that case it would have landed on houses. Must have been smoking something pretty good.

There was another thing I noticed but only after I went and played with Google Maps for a while. I am a visual soul.

After looking at the map I noticed that West Texas is not very far from all these sightings.

Jackiesue and Babs must not be looking at the night sky enough.

I also noticed that Crawford home of the western white house is in the same area.

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but The Gump hasn’t been spending much time there lately. I guess he cleared enough brush. Must have cleared enough to make a nice parking space for some swamp gas or a weather balloon.

Then again maybe they are afraid of all the non UFOs people have been seeing in the area.

Then again, I could as always be full of shit.

Now, Back to Stephen King’s Duma Key.