Posted 1/14/2008 05:18:00 PM by Douglas

When I read about a small Texas town reporting multiple sightings of a UFO, I'm just glad it's not mine.

In this Texas farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.

Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.

"People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."

Why not pull out your binoculars and take a closer look at it?

Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.

Or that. Try that.

About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.

Texas, California and Colorado. Is there a bigger collection of kooks in the country? Well, sadly, Florida would beg to differ.

Anyhoo, I think these folks have had too much Dr. Pepper. Pure cane sugar is a hell of a drug!