Too Many Stories

We have been dormant for quite a while. The Stephenville Texas stories in January 2008 were fascinating because they recapitulated nearly all the reactions that people have with anomalous events. The military, reporters, UFO groups, George Noory and his army of Coast-to-Coast AM radio followers all chimed in in classic, almost 1950s fashion.

But nothing really came of it. No new discoveries were made. And the conspiracy talk just kept on growing - the Air Force, the link to nearby (60 something miles) Crawford, Texas where the President spends time. The story grew to incredible proportions, based on a few sightings of lights in the sky. But the speculation grew, and we just threw up our hands and gave up writing hoping to see what happened, how it would conclude, and a year later, it is no closer to be defined than any other sighting in history. But the story has now been discovered by the enthusiasts and breathless professionals, and the legend will now never die for as long as we can tell. People get excited, and they portray any movement of lights in the sky seemingly as the work of an advanced civilization.

There are nearly daily stories on UFOs now. We just have to gasp, or sigh, but they are really mostly lights in the sky stories. Someone spots a small light or a Chinese candle lantern in the UK (they don't have them in the States) as it drifts by, and then there are scores of stories in the paper. We keep hoping for juicier stories, of some kind of encounters, but most of them are just fragmentary photos. We should probably write an entry of the digital cameras that people use, and when they look at the photos later, they discover some shape or light in the sky that they had not seen when they were actually there in real-time. It seems to happen more and more as these cameras become more available.

Some of the reports are sort of skeptical, waiting for the real UFO, which seems pretty elusive right now. Here is a news recap of the lantern stories.

Australian Story about the UK