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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:56:19 -0400
Archived: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:56:19 -0400
Subject: Close Encounters Of The Cameron Kind




Source: The Temple Daily Telegram - Temple, Texas, USA

http://www.tdtnews.com/story/2009/03/09/56335/

March 9, 2009

Close Encounters Of The Cameron Kind; Woman Recalls Night With UFO
by Jeanne Williams - Cameron Writer

CAMERON -- People told stories about encounters with unexplained,
slow-moving, glowing objects in the night sky over Stephenville
last January. There were reports of an unidentified amber-
lighted aircraft that buzzed President Bush's Crawford ranch
last summer. Those and the 34 aerial anomalies witnessed in
Texas skies last month and reported to UFO-trackers at MUFON are
merely d=E9j=E0 vu to Cameron's Penny Mowdy Horelica.

In the early spring of 1975, Mrs. Horelica, then a C.H. Yoe High
School senior, said she was returning home in her 1964 black
Ford Mustang from an after-school job at the Safeway Supermarket
when, five miles outside of Cameron on FM 1600, she spotted a
glowing object in the sky that resembled a bright motorcycle
light floating on the horizon.

As the object maneuvered directly toward her, floating around
like no conventional aircraft moves, her first thoughts were
that it was a weather balloon or "something Air Force," she
said.

Just before she approached the Little River Bridge, the object
closed in and chased her down FM 1600 until it rendezvoused with
her vehicle, hovering atop the Mustang and floating back and
forth as the scared teenager floor-boarded her car toward home,
she said.

As the craft got closer, it changed in appearance from an
iridescent motorcycle light to a moon-sized, then a sun-sized
sphere, and, close-up, matched the dimensions of Cameron fire
station's rear parking lot.

"I was so scared I couldn't get away from it," Mrs. Horelica
said.

The car interior was illuminated by the craft that produced a
low hum. The radio was jammed to static, and the car's
headlights went out.

Blinded by the light, she said she kept driving on instinct,
with the object hovering overhead. She arrived at her
grandmother's house scared out of her wits.

She stopped the vehicle, jumped out and raced to the front
porch, where she met her grandmother, pointing out frantically
the huge, lighted object that by then floated over a field in
front of the house. Her grandmother called neighbors who also
witnessed the glowing craft. The aircraft hovered less than a
minute before a fireball exploded and it vanished into darkness.

"We never saw anything like that again," Mrs. Horelica said.

The adventure continued the next day at school where history and
science classes were devoted to her UFO experience, which had
been reported on a local radio station after she reported the
sighting to the Cameron Police Department.

Mrs. Horelica consented to a live interview on the radio, and
her experience was reported in two weekly newspapers.

Penny Mowdy became famous for a while as the Yoe High teenager
who had seen a UFO.

"I got a lot of flack," she said. "But it wasn't that bad
because I wasn't the only one that had seen it. Kids and some
people were like, =91What were you drinking?' and stuff like
that."

Teasing did get so intense by some skeptics at school that she
cried. The drive home after her 10 p.m. shift ended was a
frightening experience for a while, and she kept searching the
dark sky for a lighted object. To date, she has never again seen
a UFO, but fear lingers.

"I had trouble with it," she said of the sighting.

The terror she experienced the night she was chased by a glowing
and humming UFO doesn't haunt on a day-to-day basis, but it
surfaces when she drives at night in a lonely area or sees an
aerial light of an airplane or helicopter, or a bright star.

As a teenager, she had no interest in science fiction, UFO
sightings or the extraterrestrial, preferring dancing, parties,
handicrafts, fashion, friends, movie stars, and listening to
classic country singers such as Hank Williams, Johnny Horton and
Marty Robbins.

After high school graduation, she got a job as Cameron police
dispatcher, and married Henry Horelica, who today is the Cameron
fire chief.

The Horelicas raised their family in the fire station. Today,
this busy mother, grandmother and fire department ladies
auxiliary volunteer checks UFO reports, watches programs on
sightings, and there is d=E9j=E0 vu when newsreels show people
describing "something similar to what I saw," she said.

Mrs. Horelica said she is not sure how the UFO sighting was
investigated by law enforcement. Records on the sighting could
not be found at the Cameron Police Department. Officials said
the reports probably were destroyed after sustaining severe
water damaged from a leaky roof.

Milam County Sheriff David Greene said if a sighting is
reported, investigators would take a statement and contact
aeronautical authorities after first contacting Fort Hood.

MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, headquartered in Morrison, Colo.,
established in 1969 by Seguin resident Walt Andrus, recorded a
UFO sighting in Texas in 1975, said Alejandro Rojas, MUFON's
director of public education and media relations. That was the
year of Mrs. Horelica's sighting.

While Mrs. Horelica saw a round lighted object, the witness of
another sighting observed a cylindrical formation of red lights
descending from the sky. Lights turned white then scattered and
disappeared, Rojas said.

Additionally, in the mid-1970s during the summer, a woman and
her cousin were traveling east on FM 2861 from Highway 16 north
of Comanche when they saw "a huge formation of red lights in a
cylindrical shape heading toward the ground. The lights were
very wide in the middle of the shape but not on each end. As it
got very close to the ground, the red lights turned bright
white, scattered and disappeared," Rojas said.

MUFON, one of three groups in the UFO Research Coalition, sees a
rise in the number of reported UFO sightings in recent years. In
January, MUFON recorded 549 reports, with 34 of those from
Texas.

"However, it is hard to say whether that is due to the public
knowing more about us and how to reach us, or whether there are
more sightings," Rojas said. "For instance, we received a lot of
media coverage during the Stephenville, Texas, sightings last
year, and our number of sightings nationwide increased, we
believe due to people being aware that they can report their
sightings to us. People can go to our site to report sightings,
and to view the reports that have been made."

UFOINFO, another tracking organization on the Web, reported a
UFO sighting in Milam County on Jan. 6, 2005, identical to a
"brilliant object caught on film" at Kaufman County. A Milam
County resident who was not identified reported a good-sized
rounded type of object with a silver sheen that was trailed by a
long blue-white flame and trail of smoke. A year earlier, she
and her husband saw three silver, round objects traveling the
same path.

Mrs. Horelica describes her incident as "a very different
experience, but it is one that I don't care to have happen
again. We will never know in our lifetimes what it was."

There was no question in Cameron that Mrs. Horelica had seen a
strange object, said her husband, Henry. Since then, others have
related UFO sightings in Milam County.

"She was real scared," said Horelica, who has seen "lights in
the sky that are stationary, and then they go, too quick to be
an airplane. The world is just a pinpoint in the universe. Who
is to say there is not anything else out there?"



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