Gaitan's
Second Sighting
"It was Feb. 2 in the early morning hours. I videotaped it
for about 40 minutes. It was an object with red, green, and
blue lights. I was on U.S Hwy. 377 by Woody's looking south
towards Dublin. It was about a quarter of the size of a full
moon. It was several thousand feet up, maybe 4,500 or 5,000
feet up, I don't know."
"I zoomed in 168X and you could see it was round and spinning.
Something that could not be seen with the naked eye and you
could almost see through it. There was what looked like a
pyramid or triangle shape on the inside of the thing."
Gaitan's Sighting was Feb. 9.
"This time I was in St. Gobain's parking lot in Stephenville
close to the same time in the early morning. I was looking
east northeast of Dublin. I videoed for 10 minutes and zoomed
in, but it was too far. It was moving, but not real fast.
It was spinning and shooting off colors. I'm fairly certain
this thing spins. This time I could not see through it."
"That night a friend called and said he was seeing something
through his telescope, an object southeast of my house. I
went outside and there it was. It was moving southeast towards
Gustine. I watched it for at least 30 minutes and took several
pictures. I called my sister and she had seen it, too, and
so did her neighbor. Then this guy calls me back about 11:30
and said there is another one coming in from the Selden area.
He said it was moving towards Dublin. We go out and we can
see it looking toward Harbin. We went to County Road 847 and
we took several pictures with the new Cannon camera we purchased
with a special lens. It appeared to be the same thing that
was hovering southeast of my house and we never lost sight
of it. Then my sister called and they saw it again, too. It
headed southwest. Then we lost sight of the first one we'd
seen for a little bit and then it reappeared. Then, there
was two of them; one in the southwest sky and one in the northeast
sky."
Gaitan said the same friend (refusing to be identified publicly)
called the night of Feb. 10 to inform him he had viewed five
of the objects in the sky but Gaitan had forgotten his cell
phone and got the message hours too late.
"It does not match what we saw on Jan. 8," Gaitan said. "But
it was as big as that one was. The first time I didn't see
all the colors -- it was a white strobe light, LED type of
light."
"Also this one was more stationary and not bouncing around
like the night of Jan. 8. Now, you cannot see it with the
naked eye but it was spinning. And the guy that called said
he could see it spinning through the telescope. But, he said
he could see something attached to the top and the bottom,
something like a capsule or some kind of object. He also told
me it was bouncing around in his telescope view but didn't
bounce around when viewing with the naked eye."
Ricky Sorrells is visited again
Feb. 9
"It was about an hour after the sun went down, maybe 7 or
7:30 p.m. I was coming back from the store in Dublin. When
I crossed my cattle guard I looked past my big oak tree and
there it was about a mile away. The lights were erratic
red, blue and green and then they kind of combined and made
a white light that glowed. I stopped and rolled down my window
and yelled at it. I told it to 'Leave me alone!' I went ahead
and went up my driveway and got out. I looked and it was still
there. I just went in the house and shut the door because
I really didn't want to see it anymore."
When questioned further, Sorrells said he couldn't determine
how high it was because of the darkness. This was his first
night time sighting -- the other four visits were daytime.
He said, "It was higher than the trees by a large margin so
it was way above 300 feet."
Sorrells also reported military aircraft in his area the night
before the sighting of Friday, Feb. 8.
"Nine F-16s flew over in a definite grid pattern," Sorrells
said. "They have an idea of where this thing is."
A source not wishing to be publicly identified
"I don't want my name used because I don't want to go through
what Ricky has been through. But, I'll tell you what I saw,
but I'm no aeronautical expert by any shape, form, or fashion.
I live near Desdemona about 15 miles from Ricky as the crow
files. Saturday night (Feb. 9) I saw something that reminded
me of Careflight with a big spotlight on it. I saw red and
green lights but they were faint. I watched it for five minutes.
As far as the time, it was dark enough to see the stars and
the white light would have been equal to the brightest stars
in the sky. I thought it might be some kind of helicopter
but it was unusual for a helicopter. It never moved. I saw
Ricky the next day and I was joking with him that I thought
I had seen a UFO right about over his house. I could tell
by the look on his face he had seen something again. That's
when he told me not to be joking around because it had been
back to his house. When all this first started, I told him
I thought he was seeing a helicopter and somebody was just
jacking with him. I've known Ricky for 14 years and couldn't
tell you a bad story on him. I don't doubt him at all. I've
always known him to be straight up and honest. He's the butt
of a lot of jokes but everyone likes him and it's in a good-natured
way. He would have never told everybody what he told them
if he wasn't serious if he didn't honestly believe he saw
something. They can investigate him until the cows come home
and they won't find anything on him. Ricky is just a good
guy a handshake is good with Ricky. I would like to be able
to use my name but my income would be hard to replace. I can't."
Mac McKinnon's eyewitness account--
Owner/publisher, Dublin Citizen
"Somebody called me at 8 Saturday (Feb. 9) evening to tell
me about it. I was at home and went out and looked up and
there it was. It was way too big to be a helicopter and it
had red, green and white lights. I've never seen this before.
Later, I got in my car but I never got closer to it. I didn't
really see anything but lights. I quit chasing it about 11
p.m. and went to bed. Nobody's making this stuff up but I
think it's military. I think they were normal looking navigational
lights. A lot of things get developed and tested around here
that nobody realizes."
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