Photo of Jason by Johnnie Baker, posted on the actual newspaper article.
Stephenville Empire-Tribune Newspaper
UFO witnessed in Cleburne by expert
Jason Greywolf Leigh, an expert on UFOs and a resident
of Cleburne, will go on the air tonight at 10 p.m. CDT, for the Canadian station
http://xzone-radio.com
hosted by Rob McConnell to discuss the sighting so many in
the area witnessed the evening of Jan. 8.
But the best part is Leigh witnessed the same event from Cleburne in the
east-northeast sky and had already started documenting his account before he saw
the Empire-Tribune article on Jan. 10.
“I sent him (McConnell) an email Tuesday night after
my sighting, or two days before I was contacted by Councilman Murphy about the
sightings there,” Leigh said. “It adds more credence to not only that of
your people's sighting, but to mine as well!”
Leigh is well known for having filmed the June 11, 1995, daytime footage of a
UFO over Cleburne. He said it is rated as one of the top 5 films of UFOs in the
world and is extremely rare because it occurred in the light of day.
“My broad daylight footage could not be disputed, as I had first gone in
person to the small Cleburne airport and ‘looked' at the flight log and times:
no planes in the area at the time, then I called the FAA in Fort Worth, tape
recording the call, as I spoke to the operations manager who admitted they had
booked a ‘bogey' in the Cleburne area that ‘disappeared' off the screen
after ‘x' minutes,” Leigh said. “He even asked me what it was! After we
had talked, I told him that not only was I a freelance journalist, but that I
saw/videotaped the UFO and recorded our call.”
Leigh has appeared on several television shows with the dramatic footage and his
eyewitness account including “Unsolved Mysteries,” and gives lectures on the
subject. He has authored a book on UFO sightings and his uncanny ESP ability
titled Power Glide.
Leigh said before you can prove a UFO - you must first prove what it is not - so
after the Jan. 8 sighting of what appeared to be a “large blue star that
zipped off as quick as that,” he got busy. And busier still, when he glanced
at the north-northeast sky and saw a jet aircraft at above 20,000 feet,
“zooming in the direction that the blue star took.” Then he noticed another
jet as he was peering into the west-southwest sky and it, too, was at least
20,000 feet, as it was leaving a trail, he said.
He said the first thing skeptics will say is that what you saw was a star, in
particular, Venus.
“The moon is the size of a quarter with your arm fully extended,” Leigh
said. “This object would be the size of a dime with arm fully extended which
is 60 times larger than any star.”
But to quiet naysayers, he logged on to starpathways.com
and researched Venus. Leigh found on Jan. 8 there was a
new moon so that would mean a black sky.
“Venus would be due west and as evening progresses it sinks below the
horizon,” Leigh said. “Sunset was at 5:38 p.m. It was after six in the
evening so it was dark. It was cloudless, although a brisk wind out of the
south. You've got to do your homework with this sort of thing.”
Many area residents have questioned what appeared to be an increase in military
air traffic in the skies and Leigh documented that as well.
The next day Jan. 9 at 10:30 a.m. he documented four jets, “leaving ‘chem
trails' and making zigzagging patterns in the cloudless bright blue sky” and
took photos.
“Until you see something as dramatic as a UFO; you will never be the same
again - ever,” Leigh said. “I always suggest to those who have seen them for
the first time to read a few of my articles, which gives some idea of how to
prepare a report and how to go about ‘proving' what they saw as opposed to
what else ‘it' or ‘them' could have been.”
Leigh's web site is http://jasonleigh.org.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has scheduled a meeting for 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
19, at Erath County Dairy Sales & Livestock Commission located on U.S.
Highway 377/67 South. The public is invited and field representatives will
conduct interviews and complete sighting forms. Leigh said he would be in
attendance.
ANGELIA JOINER is a staff writer for the
Stephenville Empire-Tribune and can be reached at 254-965-3124 ext. 238 or
angelia.joiner@empiretribune.com.
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Website Editor's Note:
Angelia Joiner, after honorably turning in her two weeks notice of employment to The Empire-Tribune after being 'overwhelmed' by telephone calls and emails about this history-making event, was strangely fired after her last article concerning a local man's claim's of being 'harassed' by the U.S. Military, or other such 'Agents.' She came into work and found that her computer, Rolodex and other personal articles were seized and locked away from her. She was told to leave the building and not to return. This is not uncommon in stories relating to UFOs and the USA Government. We regret the loss Ms. Joiner suffered, unduly by a mislead and likely, 'spooked' employer.
Editor for JasonLeigh.org
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