The Stephenville Lights, 2008: A Mile-Wide Craft, Ten F-16s, and a Radar Trail

Downtown Stephenville, Texas, in daylight — the historic stone opera house and brick storefronts of the town where the January 2008 sightings were reported

About 6 min readOn the evening of 8 January 2008, dozens of Texans watched a silent, mile-wide object cross the sky over Stephenville. The Air Force said no aircraft were there — then admitted ten F-16s had been. And a civilian radar analysis found something else in the same sky.