A Texas Policeman eye witnessed 600 Foot UFO Over Stephenville Court House in Erath county usa. Earlier this year on January 8, 2008 three police officers from Erath County between 7 to 7:30 PM, on January 8, 2008 had close-up encounter with 600 Foot UFO Over Erath County Court House.

Police Officer “Greg,” Erath County, Stephenville, Texas: “It was January 8, 2008. I had just come on duty. I work a 12-hour shift from 7 PM to 7 AM. I was driving towards the east on South Loop, which is a loop that loops around the city of Stephenville. I was starting to crest the top of a railroad overpass. As I got to the top of that overpass, it’s raised quite a bit. I can see half the way across town from atop the overpass. I was looking to my left towards downtown and the Erath County Courthouse (100 W. Washington). And I saw a large, rectangular, black object, just slowly moving towards the Courthouse. I saw it for maybe three to four seconds.

Then I went down the crest of the hill and I thought to myself that it was a rather large aircraft of some kind. I’ve never seen anything that low moving that slow. It concerned me for a minute. I thought that maybe we have a commercial airliner trying to land at our little airport that can’t support that (an aerial craft so large). So, I went further down the South Loop and got to about Lillian Street and looked towards the Courthouse again. I had a pretty good view. It’s winter. It’s January. There was no foliage on the trees and I saw this large craft hovering above the Courthouse about 200 feet above the ground.Officer Greg first saw huge craft above Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville (red star)from the intersection of the railroad track and W. South Loop (far left red circle). Greg traveledeast past S. Lillian St (2nd red circle) to the city park bridge (3rd red circle) and finallyto the intersection of S. Graham Street and South Loop (4th red circle).

I went further down to the city park bridge on South Loop. It’s a very large, open area. From there I had an unobstructed view of the Courthouse and there was this craft hovering there. It had two large headlights, like on a car. These headlights were about 35 feet in diameter. The brightness coming off of them was similar to a xenon headlight. Those lights were a couple hundred feet apart. The whole craft from the left to the right – I would call ‘wingtip to wingtip’ – was about 600 feet across. And it looked like it was longer back than that.

Reporter : How high do you think this craft was above you?

Police Officer: Above me, I would say 200 feet.

Reporter: So very close !!

Police Officer: And distance away from me, I would say a quarter-mile or less.

Low,A quarter mile away.

Reporter: You are judging this enormous size of 600 feet in diameter and 35 foot diameter headlights !!Compared to what around you gave you that judgment?

Police Officer: The Courthouse itself and the area where it was – I could go back and walk block for block and get a good measurement of the size of the thing. To me, it looked like you could put four or five commercial aircraft wingtip-to-wingtip across the front of it. It was that large!

Reporter : At that point,is it completely stationary?

So, I proceeded up to Graham Street and made a left. At Graham Street, when I turned, I’m looking directly at this craft and it starts pivoting upward at a 35 to 40 degree angle off the left ‘wingtip.’ It rises there for about three seconds and then it goes completely 90 degrees and starts moving away from me, all without sound!

Reporter: If i understand,You are saying the huge UFO pivoted from one wingtip to 45 degrees and then a full 90 degrees without the wingtip position moving?

Police Officer: Right, without the wing dipping low.

Reporter: Incrediable !

Police Officer: Yes! (laughs) And at this point, another light comes on in the center of the craft.

Reporter: So now you have instead of the two headlights, you have three identical lights.

Police Officer: Yes then the craft starts pulling away. I reach up and grab my radar, swivel it up into the sky, turned it on and I got a hit. It showed 27 mph and accelerating. It got to about 33 mph and I lost my lock, which meant it was moving so far away I can’t get a good lock on it anymore. At this point, it accelerated very fast. It went all the way across town within two to three seconds. Then it veered to the left in the 90-degree angle, it just veered a little to the left and kept going. It got out of range where I could not see it anymore.

At this point, I grabbed my mike and started to call it in and then I realized, ‘How is this going to sound on the radio?’ I’m basically a new officer. I haven’t even worked there a year. I’m still on probation and I didn’t know how my supervisors were going to take it. I knew I was not the only one who saw it. There were people in front of me; there were people behind me. I knew other people had to have seen it. So, I just put the mike back down and didn’t call it in.

So, that’s when I got hold of Constable Gaitan and we started talking about it. About a week later, I was at work and one of the officers said, ‘Hey, I know you saw something.’

I said, ‘Yeah, I did.’

He said, ‘Well, there are two other officers here who saw it, too.’ So he got me in touch with them and we all met and decided to do our own little investigation. One of the officers was at his house when he witnessed it. The other officer was going home from work. He gets off at 7 PM. He drove directly beneath it and it was about 200 feet off the ground to the south of Stephenville out in the county on a farm on Market Road.

The other officer was at home and was in his backyard. He lives up on a ridge.

Police Officer(2): The craft was lower than him and down in a valley and it started going up a ridge across from him.

600-foot-diameter craft seen from above by police officer at his ridge top Stephenville, Texas, home.Craft was slowly, silently moving in valley below between 7 PM to 7:30 PM Central, January 8, 2008.Computer graphic illustration of craft from above based on police officer's description.

On top of this ridge was a telephone pole and underneath the telephone pole was a pickup truck with its headlights on. As the craft went up the ridge, almost hitting the phone pole. The craft just barely cleared it. The big craft went directly over that pickup. We’ve yet to find out who that is, by the way! (laughs) But they had one fantastic view of this craft. That officer saw the top of it and that’s where we got the drawing for the top of the craft.

Police Officer: The other officer drove beneath it and that’s where he got the color and what it looked like from underneath in the profile illustration.

Police Officer(3): (Who was at his house ) I saw what looked to me be a observation windows on the side of the big January 8, 2008, craft (in computer illustration).

Police Officer(2): The officer who drove underneath the huge craft said where I told you it had the two big headlights, he said there were two of those on each side.

When I first saw it, it was blacked out. It had some kind of cloaking capability. It was so blacked out that it was darker than the sky around it and gave just a little bit of a silhouette. Also, when I saw the craft, it had two towers on top about 30 to 40 feet tall. The towers had strobe lights on top of them. The towers sporadically strobed.

And there were three towers underneath the craft hanging down 30 to 40 feet tall. And they strobed white. Now when I first saw this, the towers were strobing sporadically. Then after a minute, they completely stopped strobing and the only thing you could see was on the very far wingtips, left and right, were two little, steady red lights and in between the big, massive head lights.

When it left, you could still see a silhouette as it was leaving in the distance, blacked out more or less.

Reporter: Could you or the other two officers hear anything from this huge craft?

Police Officer: We heard no noise. I rolled down my car window and I didn’t hear any noise. Of course, I had highway noise around me, but I heard no jet engines, no roar of an airplane engine, nothing like that.

Reporter: No rivets,some kind of a canvas texture all over it and was the color of olive drab?

Police Officer: The color in the graphics I sent you, that is correct (grayish-green). And he said the canvas texture to him appeared to be metallic, a metal with the rough pattern designReporter: In recent October 23,2008,Empire,Ohio,case - A truck driver said"The bottom of a large craft there looked like cracked open coal,a crystalline structure.I also talked with a security guard who drew for me,what she saw and it was something live canvas.

And now you are saying that on January 8,2008 above Stephenvilley was a gigantic craft also with a textured ,Canvas like surface,but metallic.

Police Officer: Right.

Reporter: Since January,have you had anybody off the records from military or Intelligence come to talked with you about what you saw?

Police Officer: No, nobody has come forward. Nobody has talked to us. I’ve asked why we haven’t sent more officers out to check on these things and I was told, ‘If it’s not a criminal issue, it’s not a high priority for us to look into, but we’ll do what we can.’

Reporter: No briefing's by anyone with you all in law enforcement?

Police Officer: No, none.

Reporter: Do you find that strange? I am asking you in the context of post 9/11 in a world where anything in the sky should be consider a possible national security threat to FEMA and that the craft was so large and unidentified that you would think that every single one of you who were eyewitnesses in Stephenville or Dublin on January 8,2008 would be interviewed by top authorities in FEMA?

Police Officer: Yeah, when you put it that way, that does seem kind of odd. If it is a military experimental craft of some kind, I don’t know why they would be flying it over a populated city. That certainly doesn’t keep it secret anymore. If it’s not military, then it is of some sort of concern.

Reporter: Is there any evidence anywhere on this planet that a nation is making something that is 600 feet in diameter and completely silent and able to stand still in the air?

Police Officer: Not that I know of.

Reporter: Nor me,it is truly a mysterious aerodynamic mystery let alone what is the source?

Police Officer: Definitely.

Note: The name of the officer Greg is fictional.

Update: Police officer interviewed, who had Another UFO encounter over Stephenville November 18, 2008
Interview conducted by Earthfile Reporter