22 November 1973
(The Rosebud News, Texas)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“ ‘It chased us, and we were scared, and our boys were scared,’
so said
Mrs. Fay Seeley and Mrs. Fay Hileman Sunday night
(18 November 1973) when they
saw an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) on FM 413 between Kendrick Ranch
entrance and the Brazos River.
‘This is just too much. I know that people are just going to laugh at
us. It is something you read in the papers and laugh at yourself, but our
children saw it too, and we are all still scared,’ told Mrs. Seeley late
Sunday night.
Mrs. Seeley, her sons Richard, 13, and Russell, 8, Mrs. Hileman and her
son Richard, 7, were returning to Rosebud from a deer hunt near Buffalo. They were
traveling on State Highway 14 and were nearing Bremond when Mrs. Hileman
noticed a bright, then dimming light low in the sky. ‘I said nothing about it,
because I thought it was a helicopter. I first told the others about it when we
were on the highway between Bremond and State 6. They all began watching it
then. It was when we turned from State 6 onto FM 1373 that we really noticed
that something was really happening,
because first it was on our left side, then quicker than the eye could see, it
was on our right,’ she said.
Richard Seeley told, ‘It was following us, but I did not say much about
it. I knew that my mama was worried, and I was scared myself.’
They kept driving west on FM 413 and saw that the thing dimmed and got
brighter, and seemed to disappear, but that when they neared the Brazos River
Bridge, it appeared again, and they slowed down.
‘We were near the Kendrick Ranch house alongside the highway, and I saw
that the thing was going to land in front of us on the highway. It never did
land but was about treetop high and was blocking my way, so I stopped. No, I
did not stop, I don’t think. I whirled the car around and got out of there fast
as I could, and it still followed us and stayed behind us and I was driving as
fast as I could but it was still right there all the time, but when we got to
Reagan and got back on State 6 we were behind another car and the thing just
seemed to lift up and disappear,’ so related Mrs. Seeley.
Richard Seeley was asked what the UFO looked like to him, and he said,
‘I don’t know, but it was pointed on top.’
Mrs. Hileman told that, ‘it was, I guess sort of round and had a point
on top and two on the bottom. When it would be bright, I could not see the
points too well, but when it got dimmer, you could see the points real well,
and there were the shadows it cast when it was just over the highway.’ I just
wish that Cecil (Tiny) would have been with us, because he will never believe
this.’
A call was made to Mrs. Seeley Monday morning, and she tells, ‘I just do not
believe that the thing would have let me drive on any farther. I did not sleep
last night, and may not sleep any tonight. I just know that the thing would not
have let me go by.’
Were there others that saw this UFO? Well, maybe. Four of us Killgores
were riding back along this same highway about 8 p.m. Sunday, and the question
was asked, ‘Is that the comet?’ Off toward the south was a star-like object
that would glow a bit, then get dimmer, but it seemed a long way off.
On Saturday evening Mrs. Weldon Walston told of seeing a bright light to
the south of their home near Powers Chapel. On Sunday night Homer Seeley told
that he noticed a brightness outside their home in the Pleasant Grove
community. Mrs. Myrtle Scarborough told of seeing something bright crossing the
sky from south to east at Wilderville store. This has been seen a couple of
times in the past few days. A motorist told Marlin police recently about such
an object following his car along State 6 from the Reagan to Marlin route.
Is there such a thing? Some say ‘Yes, I believe it.’ Others just laugh
when told the story. There are scientists who say that there are such things
and there are supposedly photos taken of such objects in the sky.
Should anyone in the area see another such UFO, they are urged to
contact this writer in Rosebud at any time of the day or night.”
My comment:
The UFO was first sighted near Bremond,
Texas, according to the article.
Bremond’s location is 7.5 kilometres (4.7 miles) to the north
of the Twin Oaks Power Station, according to Google Earth.
I also reported about this UFO case on 29 January 2011 and
28 July 2019.
Wikipedia article: “Bremond,
Texas”:
Wikipedia article: “Rosebud, Texas”:
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(Image: The Rosebud News)
Bremond and Twin Oaks Power Station, Texas
(Photo: Google)
Map of Falls County,
Texas, highlighting Rosebud
(Text: Wikipedia) (Image: wikimedia.org)
Satellite photo of Rosebud, Texas (tageo.com)
(Photo: tageo.com)
