Is The Stephenville UFO A Local?

As much as the US Military would like us to think that what the town of Stephenville saw was nothing more than a military training mission with common everyday fighter jets, there is no denying that there was something out of the ordinary in the sky that night. Today I came across an article in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune that got me thinking that whatever was over Stephenville is from a little closer to home than many people may be considering.

The article is about Stephenville resident Ricky Sorrells, who was allegedly threatened by the US Military if he didn’t stop talking about what he saw. While Sorrells’s story of government intimidation is week on verifiable details (though the thought of being harassed by the government is scary enough that I wish him the best of luck), there is one little pearl hidden in the article that is definitely worth exploring (and I think many people are overlooking). Sorrells claims to have seen the craft that flew over Stephenville on 4 different occasions and he describes the craft as being 3 to 4 football fields in length. While not incredibly descriptive in the least, it did get me thinking about a potential terrestrial source of the craft that if true would be straight out of science fiction. In the movie “Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow” (coincidentally a very good movie if you haven’t seen it), the heros land on massive aircraft that serves as an aircraft carrier/air base. I wondered, could the Air Force be developing a similar platform?

This could be an excellent explanation for what the residents of Stephenville saw. In-fact, the concept of a flying aircraft carrier is not a new idea to the US Military. In the 1930′s the US Navy commissioned Goodyear to build two 785 feet long zeppelins, the USS Macon and USS Akron, that would carry 5 single seat Sparrowhawk biplanes that it would launch and retrieve using a trapeze-like system. The program was abandoned after both airships were lost to bad weather. This would not be the first time that the US military has secretly revisited a previously abandoned project. The B-2 Spirit bomber is a direct descendant of the Northrop YB-49 flying wing which was abandoned in the 1950′s because of problems controlling the aircraft (modern computers make the B-2s flight a reality). This theory even explains the presence of the F-16s reported by witnesses (and initially denied by the military). I would imagine that a flying aircraft carrier would be escorted by quite a few fighter jets, just as a sea-going aircraft carrier is accompanied by a flotilla of support ships and fighter escort.

Unfortunately, if the US Military is re-developing flying aircraft carriers, I doubt that we will find out for sure for many years. It does seem to fit though. The government has already brought projects out of mothballs once the technology catches up to their designers vision. Military aircraft are often reported as UFOs (a 1982 incident in Dayton, Ohio a reported UFO is believed by many to actually have been the newly developed Harrier Jump Jet – a plane that moves like no plane anyone had seen before). All we know for sure, is that there was something over Stephenville and the government doesn’t want us to know about it (at least for now – I can’t wait to go to an air show that has one of these babies).

UFO Witness Claims Harassment via The Anomalist