Until recently, a series of UFO sightings in Texas had largely disappeared from memory, but it has gained renewed attention following the recent release of the four-part documentary series “Encounters,” now available on Netflix.
The documentary, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television in association with Boardwalk Pictures and Vice Studios, premiered on September 27, 2023 and each episode is dedicated to a specific UFO encounter.
Between November 2007 and March 2008, more than 300 Texas residents reported witnessing a colossal UFO in the sky, ranging in size from 300 feet (91 meters) to 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) long.
This UFO appeared as a series of bright orange-red lights forming an arc-like shape. It remained uncertain whether it was a collection of individual objects or a single massive entity. These luminous lights glided over the roads and hovered over the fields, maintaining complete silence.
Intriguingly, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) radar data, which corroborated eyewitness accounts, confirmed the presence of this gigantic UFO. It appeared on radar screens as an unidentified flying object with no transponder signals.
The majority of these UFO sightings occurred in Stephenville and adjacent areas, including Dublin, Gorman and Fort Worth, about 80 miles southwest of Dallas, the Texas capital.
One of the most significant UFO sightings in this region occurred on January 8, 2008, when 19 witnesses observed an immense UFO traveling from Dublin to Stephenville and back, with US Air Force fighter jets in pursuit.
According to a credible eyewitness, local pilot Stephen Allen, this UFO was a mile long and half a mile wide, moving at an astonishingly high speed while maintaining absolute silence.
The series highlights that Angelia Joiner, a local journalist at the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, was the first to report this UFO to the media, a move that led to her firing.
In 2008, she worked with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) to convene local residents who had witnessed the UFO, with the aim of collecting their testimonies.
Unfortunately, this attempt was marred by disruptions and chaos in the room, hindering effective interviewing of eyewitnesses. Subsequently, ufologists resorted to separate interviews with key eyewitnesses.
Joyner expressed her disappointment at the prevalence of individuals making unsubstantiated claims in Texas, including one person who claimed to possess a “UFO piece” and another who claimed to have an alien implant in their genital region.
Unfortunately, the lack of video or photographic evidence from the era is attributed to the limited prevalence of smartphones at the time.
Below in the report you can see one of the rarely available videos.
Angelina Joyner, one of the key enthusiasts who investigated the UFO incident, passed away in 2021. The lead investigator of the incident was engineer Robert Powell, a specialist in nanotechnology and semiconductors who is still very much alive.
Powell helped ufologists interview witnesses and made contact with the FAA, obtaining substantial radar data related to UFO sightings.
However, Powell encountered resistance when he later requested additional data from the FAA. He claimed that his work on the 2007-2008 UFO incident in Stephenville, Texas, was one of the last cases in which the FAA released raw radar tower data to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
During a meeting of eyewitnesses, Joyner introduced Powell to electrical engineer Glen Schulze, who had previously worked with U.S. Army radar at the White Sands Proving Ground. Schulze advised Powell to request data from the FAA radar.
Using this data, Powell and Schulze conducted an extensive analysis, examining more than 2.8 million data points from five radar systems. Consequently, they were able to identify the presence of a UFO in two recordings from January 8, 2008.
They determined that “if the two unknown objects detected by the radar were the same, the object was moving at a speed of approximately 3,300 kilometers per hour,” a speed comparable to that of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft , one of the fastest aircraft in aviation history.
