Visitors from space. (original) (raw)

Mysterious objects supposedly visiting Texas aren�t new. In the late 1800s, several towns in East Texas experienced aerial phenomena.

An account in the Dallas Morning News on October 5,1898, reported that a 12-year-old boy saw �a great ball of fire� hovering about three feet over the ground with a buzzing sound before it took off again.�

At Denton, the Galveston News reported in 1897 that a �mysterious ship� was seen �cavorting� through the sky in North Texas.

Another mysterious airship passed over Bonhamat 3:15 a.m. in April of 1897.

In 1889, as Dr. J.M. Stephen's was going to Emerson from Paris, he saw an object that he said looked like a large balloon, about 100 feet in length, reported the Dallas Morning News.

From the Dallasnewspaper came another report in 1889: �Last night (at Grandview) about 11 p.m., a party fishing on Chambers Creek perceived the elements and the earth round about them as bright and luminous as noonday splendor...when three extra large meteors were traversing the heavens in a northern direction...

�Just as they vanished and the iridescent beauty with them, three heavy sounds...nosier than the noisiest anvil firing were distinctly heard...�

At Navasotain 1894, people were startled by a loud report...originating in the northwest, and immediately across the heavens there extended a narrow line of smoke of dazzling whiteness so bright that it was painful to the eyes. Immediately, it began to fade to the color of burning sulfur and spread out over the heavens in various colors--violent, purple blue. Then the script letters MMTUW formed and the heavens became clear...�

The Dallas Morning News said �dozens of people witnessed the event and inquiries developed that it had been seen in parts of Brazos and Washington counties. The negroes were very much frightened...�