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Jason Offutt gets all the best scary stories:

Black-Eyed People in Texas, Nebraska.

The early July sun beat on 19-year-old Dallas Adams as he pumped gas into his car at a convenience store in Lucas, Texas.

A man and his son stood at the pump opposite Adams, a woman at her car was behind him. When the gas nozzle clicked Adams placed it back onto the pump and went inside the store. Things were different when he came out.

“There was no line in the gas station,” Adams said. “I bought cigarettes and walked out but when I came out my car was the only one there. I had only been in the gas station for maybe two and a half minutes. As soon as I noticed everyone was gone I felt scared but couldn’t figure out why.”

Then he saw the man standing by his car. As Adams walked by him, he noticed a smell, like the man hadn’t showered in weeks.

“He looked like an average guy but when I looked at him I felt scared like my life was about to end,” Adams said. “I went to my car and looked at him – he was staring at me.”

Read more of these spooky stories at Jason’s website:

From the Shadows: Black-Eyed People in Texas, Nebraska.

Interesting… this recent report may be a repeat of a sighting from the beginning of this year, according to anonymous claims in the comments section at the website source.

Sometimes, it’s really worth the time to travel country roads instead of the freeway.  You just never know what gems you may stumble upon while driving the scenic byways and highways of Texas.  You may find a really great BBQ joint or a kitschy country store selling irresistible knickknacks — or maybe a state-of-the-art stealth fighter parked on the side of the road.

What?

Yep.  That’s what we said when we saw the photos Craig Levisay sent to our 5 and 6 p.m. anchor Mike Snyder this morning.  Levisay found what appears to be a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft, broken down along state Highway 1187 near Drury Lane in Rendon.

The $50 million F-35, which has stealth capability and the ability to take off and land vertically, was shrink-wrapped in blue and perched on the back of a flat-bed truck that was partially hidden behind a pile of asphalt.

But the clever cover didn’t keep Levisay, or any other number of passerbys, from snapping some photos of the military’s next generation aircraft, or even shielding themselves from the hot summer sun underneath one of the aircraft’s foldable wings.

Read the entire report at NBC’s website:

Stealth Fighter Parked on N. Texas Country Road | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.

From the comment’s section:

MY HUSBAND AND i SAW THIS SAME PLANE THERE ON JANUARY 20TH OF THIS YEAR. I HAVE PICTURES TO PROVE IT. USUALLY ON TRANSPORTS LIKE THIS, THEY WILL SOMETIMES TRAVEL ON BACKROADS TO AVOID MAJOR HIGHWAY AND MOST OF THE TIME PREFER TO TRAVEL @ NIGHT AND REST DURING THE DAY. WHEN WE SAW IT IN THE SAME SPOT IN JANUARY, IT HAD A POLICE OFFICER GUARDING THE TRUCK AND PLANE. VERY NEAY SIGHT TO SEE, BUT IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME IT’S BEEN THERE.

Hat tip to a member at the Rigorous Intuition forums for this lead and spotting the comment quoted above.

"Artist's depiction of a black rectangular UFO sighting."

 [Picture above is from The Black Rectangles of 2007]

Another Texas UFO sighting from earlier this year…

TX, February 16, 2010 – Rectagular black craft moving very slow apx 500 feet with 4 dim red lights. NO FAA lights. 1 dimensional?.. like a flat black sheet of paper with lights on each conner. MUFON Case # 22329.

On fab 16th 2010 apx around 10:10 – 10:15 PM I was coming back from the store and was walking between the house and next door. It was just flooting across the sky right over my next door neighbors house at apx 15 to 20 mph.

It was solid black. So black it was like a void in the sky. At apx 500 feet more or less it seemed to move in a stright line no sound at all. I would never have known this thing was above me if I didn’t look up. It had 4 dim red lights on each conner on the craft. Solid, not blinking. It was moving wast to east.

No FAA lights.

I don’t think I remeber ever seeing a brick flooting in the sky before.

It only had one dimension! Not 2 or 3 dimensions just one.. like a flat sheet of black paper it was so flat that it was out of my sight in 30 seconds..

I guess cause it was flat and one dimensional. The very dim lights could have been plasma vents to keep it up in the air.. I dunno.. just a guess.

It was a drop jaw moment for me. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

I always wanted to see a real UFO for myself all my life. Actually after seeing this thing and thinking about it it gives me the willies.

I reported this to the Mesquite, Texas police dept. Nobody else reported this thing and I could tell the cop that called me back was laughing at me for reporting it.. I ask him if anyone else reported this and he said no I was the only one. I reported it like 3 or 4 days later. Didn’t think the police would do much about it anyways but thought it might help just to document the sighting. This was my “First” UFO sighting. I wish I had a camera handy but the one I do have is only a 4 mega pix camera and seeing the UFO was so dimly lit I don’t think it would have been a very good picture or video.

Original source: Rectangular UFO 500 feet over Mesquite, Texas.

Kind of interesting … I wish he’d had or used a cellphone camera to take a picture.

TX,  April 8, 2010 – moving sphere object with a bright-white light. MUFON Case # 22768.

I was coming back home from college in my car, on the 83 highway, late at night. My mother called to see when I was going to arrive home and I answered her call from my cellphone.

I was on the passanger seat at this time, while a friend drove me home. My mother was upset I was coming home late, so I ignored what she was saying to me and instead looked out the windshield at a slight angle towards the driver’s side.

In the sky, across from Alvarez Rd (in between Rio Grande,TX and Roma, TX)I saw a bright white light, a perfect sphere.

My first reaction was: “Oh my God!! What’s that!?..Oh my God..it’s moving!!..it’s f*king moving!”

While the driver still drove at 55mph-60mph, I kept track of the object for about 3seconds. The object was NOT far up in the sky, but instead it seemed to be pretty low to the ground. I saw it moving down towards the ground as if it were going to land.

It moved downward in the shape of an arc, a movement I believe no airplane or helicopter do when they plan to land. Anyhow, I do not know if the object landed because I lost site of it once it got too low to the ground because of trees covering the site. I noticed there was a house near where the object was, but there may be more than just one.

The driver did not see what I saw, but I wanted to ask people around the area where I saw this object if they had seened something similar to my story but I was too scared of doing that for fear of being called crazy.

What made me first notice the object was its perfect sphere-shaped bright-white glow. When I first saw it, I didn’t think anything of it; until I saw it was actually moving downward as if to land, I thought it could be perhaps a UFO because of the way it moved downward, forming an arc path.

During the siting I felt in disbelieve; It was very unexpected because I was not looking at the sky to find strange things, but yet there it had been very tangible. While still on the phone with my mother, I told her what I had seen: the bright white light shaped as a sphere.

After the sighting when I got home, I asked myself what it could have been and started iliminating possibilities and I could not find an explanation for it. So I arrived at one conclusion: an Unidentified Flying Object..apparantly about to land.

Student watches sphere-shaped object appear to land near Roma, Texas.

MSNBC recently did a piece on the “Best places to spot UFOs” and perhaps not surprisingly they included Stephenville, Texas. As I previously mentioned, it does seem that there have been a series of Sightings-Flaps there recently.

It was just another winter night in Stephenville, Texas, when Steve Allen, a 30-year aviation veteran, saw something that defied all logic—an eerily silent, mile-wide craft ringed in lights that would “rearrange themselves” racing across the sky at what he estimated to be 3,000 miles per hour.

“I don’t know if it was a biblical experience or somebody from a different universe, but it was definitely not from around these parts,” Allen told a reporter from the Empire-Tribune after the sighting on Jan. 8, 2008. Similar reports poured in from across Erath County.

The Stephenville Lights incident wasn’t a onetime event—another mass sighting followed in October 2008, and individual reports from the area still trickle in. This corner of Texas along with the eastern Nevada desert are fast emerging as the U.S.’s newest UFO “hot spots”—places with the best odds of a spotting. Similarly active places exist around the globe, with some even attracting a new kind of tourist.

Read about the other locations they suggest are good for spotting ufos by following this link:

Best places to spot UFOs – Destinations- msnbc.com.

Paranormal events are alive and well in Texas…

Everyone Who Attended Last year Loved SOULSFEST! This Year it’s going to be even better. It’s exclusively intimate and will only be enjoyed by 90 individuals. Yes that’s it. The Brown Center is a hauntingly beautiful location to have this event and we are so proud to be the Exclusive Team of Investigators who has investigated this Venue. Now It’s Your Turn!!!

The Event starts at 11 a.m on Saturday July 17th. Enjoy listening to these experienced and unique individuals who exceed their reputations in the paranormal realm. In between speakers we will have raffles, and a few entertaining surprises. A Huge buffet dinner and dessert. . . and then the LeGenDaRy SouLsFesT GhoSt HunT!! Our Featured Paranormal Guests will Include the FOLLOWING:

1. John Zaffis
2. Carmen Reed
3. Barry Fitzgerald
4. Steven LaChance
5. Denice Jones

tickets may be purchased along with further information about our guests at
http://soulsfest.eventbrite.com

Thanks!!!

Sounds like an interesting event from an interesting group: SOULS Paranormal (Searching Out & Uncovering Lost Spirits). 

Photo: Susan Plonka

Traveling eastbound on Parker Road, I spotted him at the light at Central Expressway. Half awake, I glanced over to the beat-up blue Chevy in front of me.

…

A Saturn with stars was painted on the door, along with a blue horse head on top of the rusty, multi-colored blue paint. The words, “UFO Abduction Outreach,” were stenciled on the door in white.

Guest Works: Visitors from outer space in Plano?

PLANO Blog | The Dallas Morning News.

The Anomaly Archives Presents: Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes

Saturday, March 20th 1:30-3:30pm CST

12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302, Austin, Texas 78759

“Cryptozoology’s answer to Hunter Thompson” – Nick Redfern

[Jon Downes at Loch Ness in 2005]

The Anomaly Archives welcomes British Fortean researcher Jon Downes to Austin, Texas for a lecture on all things anomalous, Fortean, cryptozoological and UFOlogical. Please join us at the Anomaly Archives lending library (located at 12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302) from 1 to 5pm, Saturday, March 20th for an enlightening lecture from one of the world’s leading cryptozoological field investigators.

This lecture event is FREE, however, a $5 donation is respectfully requested for those wishing to help support the Anomaly Archives in its non-profit community education, outreach and research efforts.

Jonathan Downes is the Director of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology, the world’s only full-time group dedicated to the investigation of unknown animals, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Ogopogo, and the Abominable Snowman.

In both 1998 and 2004, Jon traveled to the island of Puerto Rico in search of the deadly, blood-sucking creature known as the Chupacabras – a beast that has been linked with a large amount of UFO activity, including UFO crashes, on the island.

Jon will be speaking about his two expeditions, findings, theories and conclusions as to what the creature may be. Jon will also reveal the very latest news on his quest to find out the truth concerning the so-called Texas Chupacabras.

Are the beasts of Puerto Rico and Texas one and the same? Or, is something even stranger going on? Don’t miss this rare chance to see Jon Downes expose the truth of this strange and sensational mystery.

Jonathan Downes is the author and co-author of numerous books on the subjects of Fortean phenomena, especially cryptozoological critters such as Owlman, the Monster of the Mere and others. Besides his research, writing and activism, Jon Downes is also an accomplished film maker having worked on over 7 films. He also produces a regular online video series for the Centre for Fortean Zoology called On The Track (Of Unknown Animals).

Anomaly Archives Presents Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes.

Join us at the First Anomaly Archives Meetup of 2010 this Saturday at the Austin History Center from 3-4pm.(See end of email for venue details)

Sponsoring this meetup and venue is the local Austin Mufon chapter headed by Anomaly Archives board member Mike DeGroff.

The monthly Austin Mufon meeting is 1-4pm the first Saturday of most months.

As this is our first official “MeetUp” we’ll be answering questions about the organization, its mission, projects and goals, etc.

We may watch a video or two, talk about books we’re reading, and generally talking about a wide variety of anomalous subjects.

We’ll also be giving away a couple of books to some lucky attendees. Kind of like a door prize. Details at the meeting.

Also, after the meeting, if there’s enough interest, perhaps we can retire to some comfortable outdoor eatery for “conversations over saucers” with coffee, tea, beer, etc.

Finally, we’re pleased to announce that the Anomaly Archives will be hosting British Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes the afternoon of Saturday, March 20th. Details to follow shortly.

Thank you for your support. We look forward to seeing you all at the Austin History Center this Saturday.

- SMiles Lewis

Founder & President
www.AnomalyArchives.org
AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER
810 Guadalupe, Austin, TX 78701

Anomaly Archives Meetup this Saturday – Austin Anomaly Archives (Austin, TX) – Meetup.com.

Another recent Texas UFO report via the Mufon database:

TX, February 27, 2010 – Beautiful, amazing, humbling, it felt personal, like it was waiting for me to come outside and notice it, it was really large and like nothing I had ever seen before. MUFON Case # 22051.

My boyfriend, Russell,and I were standing in our small suburban backyard enjoying the clear morning. We had been up all night hanging out with 2 friends of ours. They were in our living room at the time of our sighting.

I spotted a white reddish pulsating Orb high in the north-eastern sky. I pointed and said to Russ, ” what is THAT?”

He looked and started to say “Oh thats just a plane but said after a moment instead “I don’t know, what IS that?”

Then it started moving slowly from north-east toward the eastern quarter of our house. As it got closer we were able to see 3 smaller orbs connected to the larger orb.

Then it started moving west directly over our heads!!! Surrounding the Orbs was a very large, CLEARish, flat craft or ship. As a whole! But it was clear, we could see light glimmering very subtly off of it, and it radiated a trail of “heat-like” substance behind it- also clear.

The UFO Stopped completely over Russell and I for about 45 seconds, the light in the middle pulsated reddish white and greenish white..all we could hear was a very low octave drone coming from the stealthy craft…..when it hovered over us, we went from amazement to feeling paralyzed in fear for a moment…we felt completely vunerable and at the mercy of this advanced ariel craft.

All I could do was murmer,”Oh my God Russell, What are we LOOKING at????!!!,” We felt scared and in shock. The craft then continued on toward the west. Making all the neighboring dogs bark frantically.
The entire experience lasted about 5 minutes…or less, it’s hard to tell…it seemed like forever!

I then went inside to get our friends to come outside and see it…but when they came out it was to far away for them to see it. I will never be the same. It was beautiful!

Source:  Flat UFO surrounded by orbs moves over Texas couple.