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Tina Conner, a Comanche County resident,
and her daughter Leslie, were two of more than 50 witnesses who
stopped by the Dublin Rotary building last Saturday to report her
sightings to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) representatives.
“My family and I have seen unusual lights
in the sky several times,” Conner said, after her MUFON interview,
“most recently on Wednesday, January 16.”
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FILLING OUT MUFON FORMS. Tina Conner, right, a Comanche County
resident, and her daughter Leslie James, of Fort Worth, both
filled out forms during the meeting held by the Mutual UFO
Network’s meeting Saturday in Dublin, trying to describe what
they, and six other family members have witnessed, on more than
one occasion, in the night-time skies over Conner’s ranch. |
Unlike some reports, Conner said they’ve
seen no red lights, just white lights. “They remind me of shooting
stars,” she said. “But then after shooting across the sky at lightning
speed, they just come to a complete stop. After being stopped for
several seconds, they’ll shoot off in another direction. It’s just
unbelievably strange.”
Conner said that at first, she wondered
if the lights were from some sort of military aircraft. “But like my
husband Philip pointed out, what kind of aircraft can move that fast
and stop like that,” Conner said.
Although Conner said she felt a little
strange when all the cameras were focused on the UFO “witnesses”
Saturday, that for the most part the experience was a positive one.
“The investigators were very respectful,”
she said. “They didn’t make me feel ridiculous. They were very
matter-of-fact about everything, like a doctor or a police officer
taking a report. After they interviewed me, they took my phone number
and address and said they would be contacting me.”
Seven members of Conner’s family have
seen the lights in recent weeks. Sometimes there are as few as five
lights, and sometimes 15 or 20. Conner said the “weirdest” experience
with the lights was several weeks ago, when, after zipping back and
forth across the sky, the lights formed a circle and “stayed
completely still in the sky for several minutes.”
“It was a perfect circle, and they stayed
like that for several minutes,” Conner said. “It was so weird. And
never, have they made any noise.”
Kay Hodges of DeLeon, and some of her
family, also saw unusual lights in the sky recently.
“We were out taking care of our (stock)
show animals,” Hodges said, “at about 6:15 or 6:20 p.m. on January 8,
and we saw these unusual lights. To me, they looked like satellites
twinkling in the sky, but they were going across the sky at a high
rate of speed. Every now and then, there would be two bursts of
reddish or burnt orange light, side by side, like when the space
shuttle lifts off, but that would just last for a few seconds.”
Hodges said she didn’t report it
originally, because she was embarrassed to say that she’d seen a UFO.
Unlike what Conner saw, Hodges said the
lights she saw were “lined up in a straight line.”
“And they never made any noise at all,”
Hodges said. |
