Stephenville and the Lights over the Ranches
On 8 January 2008 dozens of people over this Texas town — an amateur pilot, a constable, ranch owners — watched a formation of bright lights move low and without sound, and then, by several accounts, be chased by fighters. The Air Force first said none of its aircraft had been up that evening. Two weeks later, after a request from the Mutual UFO Network, Carswell base acknowledged that ten F-16s had been flying training sorties in exactly that place at exactly that time. Radar records obtained afterwards showed an unidentified return heading towards George W. Bush's ranch at Crawford. The case became one of the loudest in the United States in a decade, largely because the explanation kept changing.
Ubatuba and the Magnesium Fragments
In September 1957 a Brazilian newspaper received a letter from a fisherman claiming that a disc-shaped object had exploded in the air over the beach at this town in front of him, enclosing several light metal fragments. The samples reached a Brazilian agricultural laboratory, which identified almost pure magnesium. The argument starts there: some analyses showed a purity above what industry could achieve at the time, others found it ordinary. The fragments were passed from hand to hand and laboratory to laboratory, some were lost, and some were studied in the United States in the 1980s. Sixty years on the result is inconclusive, and the Ubatuba fragments remain the best-known example of how physical evidence in this subject dissolves along a chain of custody.
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