Those Texas skies and a strange UFO

IT'S A QUESTION as old as time, perhaps, even longer than that: So are we REALLY alone?
However, it's only mid-January and people in the farming community of Stephenville, Texas have been shaking their heads and asking that question.
You see, folks, about a week ago, dozens of people from a pilot to a county cop -- spotted a massive UFO in their skies and it's now all over the newswires and on the TV screen.
It's something that, seemingly, occurs annually, but usually not at the beginning of the year.
In 2007, the major UFO sighting waited until June. Or that's when Pilot Magazine reported that two airline pilots "witnessed" UFOs off the Channel Islands.
One of them, 50-year-old Ray Bowyer, a captain with Aurigny Air Services, out of Southhampton, spotted "a bright-yellow light" at about 3 in the afternoon.
Then he followed with these words: "It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. It was 2,000 feet up and stationary. I thought I was about 10 miles away, although I realized it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a 737. But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."
As Bowyer's plane approached Alderney, he claimed he observed another one. "It was exactly the same (as the first one), but looked small because it was further away. It was close to Guernsey. I can't explain ... All I'm saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying."
Concerning the Texas sighting in the past week or so, Steve Allen, a freight owner and pilot, noted since he lived in the Bible Belt, people "were afraid it was the end of time." Allen was then quoted in the CP wire story as saying, "It was positively, absolutely, nothing from these parts."
Those "end times" words brought pronouncements as far away as Britain when someone named Catherine Brown claimed she had a prophecy concerning it.
"I see Texas ablaze and a stunning star like the star from the East is rising over the land, I hear the spirit of the Lord say to watch for cosmic signs and wonders in Texas and that there will be cosmological phenomenon that the scientists cannot explain and that the media will carry as front-line news."
Then she went on to say, "For a period of four months -- from Christmas to Easter -- there will be a window of opportunity for salvations, signs, healings and wonders in Texas and this season of extraordinary favour and grace will manifest and be confirmed in unusual cosmic occurrences."
Of course, throughout history, there have been strange sightings of silvery-plated objects, moving at incredible speeds, and then there's even been abductions.
One of the most celebrated cases occurred on Jan. 25, 1967 in South Ashburnham, Mass. As housewife Betty Andreasson was working in her kitchen at about 6:30, a reddish light began to beam though her window while her father and mother along with her seven children were in the living room.
Her father peered then through the window to find out where the light was coming from and, reportedly, saw five odd-looking beings coming towards the house in a hopping motion.
Betty Andreasson was taken aboard a "space craft" and subjected to a physical examination while her family remained in a state of suspended animation, according to UFO case files.
Noted author Chuck Missler has delved into the Genesis account of the "sons of God" (B'nai Elohim) taking on wives of the "daughters of men" which gave birth to the "Nephilim." Missler emphasized that the "intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim or the Fallen Ones."
While Missler didn't draw any solid conclusions, it makes one wonder if these giants known as Nephilim have returned to earth as space aliens?
It's a question for the theologians, however, in the Andreasson case they were supposedly about five feet tall or shorter with pear-shaped heads, wide eyes, and small ears and noses. Certainly not a description of Goliath and his brothers from the Bible, who have been identified as gigantic Nephilim.
While explanations for UFO sightings remain a mystery, Erath County Const. Lee Roy Gaitan, who observed the strange object over Stephenville, thought it was some kind of military craft and then added these words: "At least I hope it was."