No they don't. If you read my article you would know this. The contact track they created from two random points went to the NW. ALL of the witnesses describe their UFOs as proceeding in a west/south/southwest direction. Therefore, accepting the claim by MUFON that it corresponds to the witness observations is blind belief.
During the ten minute period that MUFON selected for analysis, there were six random contacts generated in this area of Texas. MUFON cherry picked TWO out of the six to create their high speed contact. That is nothing but an effort to create something from nothing.
Finally, it is interesting to note that the FAA radar had trouble tracking one of the non-stealth F-16s during this time period. Contact FL5214D (see pages 34 and 35 of the report) did not always get recorded by the radar. However, there was enough data (along with it's transponder) to determine what it was.
I'll right, I'll first concede that I read about 80% of your piece. There was a lot there.
Second, I am gonna drop my objection to the above point. I am not yet familiar enough with the radar data to refute your conclusion.
Now, since it was your piece, why did YOU do so much cherry picking???
You provided the eye witness statements, but offered no other plausible explanation for the "welding arc bright lights being chased by military jets".
The first thing that put me off were your remarks about the initial official statement offered by the military had NO jets in the airspace on the time and day in question. I understand that the military isn't perfect (can any say WMD's in Iraq?), but you act like they pulled some green officer out of bed and told him to give a public statement with zero information. Issuing official public statements isn't something ANY government agency takes lightly, such statements are weighed, measured, and vetted...more than once. UFOlogists harken such mis-steps back to the Roswell incident. First, it WAS a crashed saucer, then it was a weather balloon, finally the claimed it was a high altitude parachute drop, to explain the 'bodies' reported.
The next thing that bothered me was your complete ignorance of the 'audio' evidence, or rather complete lack thereof. ALL of the witnesses describe "no noise of any jet engines". Not a single witness reported 'hearing' anything associated the welding arc bright lighted craft. This in my mind IS a very valuable piece of consistent evidence. What travels as fast as jets, but leaves no audio signature? I don't know if you're aware of this, but other sightings of UFO's have included this quality. And yet, your article ignored it completely.
The last thing I'll accuse you of is also ignoring the reports of seeing the objects being 'chased', meaning that witnesses saw BOTH military jets AND 'something else'. You led with a picture of an F-16 with a big bright ass light atop the tail fin. Suggesting that "THIS is what they saw." I've been to air shows, I lived in Lawton Oklahoma for a couple of years, and have witnessed almost every manner of modern military air craft flying, day and night. My step father (he was the CO in a M270 MLRS in the U.S. Army), whom I lived with at the time would identify the craft, and provided me with cues as to which was which. I have NEVER seen a craft "blink out", when flying in formation. I was told that to do so would endanger pilot, plane, and other air traffic.
Give me some time to familiarize myself with the actual radar data, and then we'll discuss
your interpretation. I would like to add that I really appreciate the time you took to write the article. Most would just rubberneck the whole event, without really digging into the meat of the reports. You are if nothing else sincere. And I like that, even if I found your debunking attempt a little lacking, as you also noted.
