First Front Page article of the UFO

Front Page article published in the Times-Review
By Lori Elmore-Moon
Sunday, June 25, 1995
"He's ready for the non-believers
Cleburne man says he video taped a UFO"

Sunday, June 11, 1995. 1:22 P.M. Lakeshore Drive. Jason Leigh of Cleburne witnessed movement in the blue skies of Cleburne, an incident that will remain with him for the rest of his life. According to Leigh, four to five golfers at the municipal golf course witnessed the strange occurrence as well, as they paused from their game and turned their eyes skyward in the direction of a strange, silver, cigar shaped object.

Leigh was able to video tape the object. Excited by his find, Leigh contacted the news media and was informed by three television networks that the object was probably a weather balloon, launched by the government from the Palestine area.

"What we saw here was something essentially going against the wind, traveling horizontally," Leigh said. "Those weather balloons are designed to move vertically. Even if it were going up vertically, we would see it moving. I called the National Balloon Base in Palestine and spoke in great detail with Jim Turner who informed me that the weather balloons they launch are 906 feet tall, have a payload of 1600 pounds, are ground controlled, and are filled with a classified amount of helium. They travel vertically, three to five miles up to the jet stream winds and the landings are ground controlled.

"He [Turner] laughingly told me that a weather balloon could not possibly be the object in my video, reiterating that the 'balloons are 906 feet tall and never fly over populated areas'.

"This thing had no sound, no prop, no jet, no turbine...zip!" said Leigh. "All I heard was the wind. The audio on the video proves it. Scientists can subject this video to something called a spectrum analyzer - that analyzes the frequency of sounds." (The camera is stereo surround, having three microphones).

Leigh is confident that both the audio and the video of the tape will validate his theory. He said that the size, shape and speed of the object can be calculated by judging the size of the house and chimney, which is part of the footage he shot. He explained that other fixed objects in the video, clouds, tree limbs, and other visible fixed objects will aid in determining the size and speed of the object.

Leigh said that the object appeared to be 50 to 80 feet in length, and approximately 10 to 20 feet wide. "The UFO was not a known aircraft, swamp gas, a giant bird, a hang glider, a comet, a shooting star, an atmospheric anomaly or a weather balloon. It had intelligent control of its movements. The glowing of the object was a result of the sun's rays reflecting off of the object's dull metallic appearance."

This is not the first time that Jason Leigh has had an encounter with a UFO. In 1979, while traveling down an interstate in New Orleans, LA, Leigh had an urge to glance skyward.

"The object was perfectly metallic, mushroom shaped with a hump in the middle...I'm driving alone and I look up at the sky and there is this metal object  just tilting down, wavering back and forth. I'm thinking, 'this can't be...' "

Leigh said the appearance of the object reminded him of smooth, gleaming chrome.

Although the Cleburne incident was Leigh's first opportunity to tape a sighting, he has seen UFOs all of his life. "If you don't know what it is, what is it? It's a UFO. It's not a plane, It's not a weather balloon. There it is in broad daylight...other people - the golfers are looking at it and gesturing...The fact remains, we have the video." (AP).

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Front Page--Cleburne Eagle News--the July 20, 1995, article by Shirley McKee

"Jason Leigh describes the authorities refusal to admit to the existence of UFOs as a "a real puzzlement"

Leigh, who describes himself as a neutral skeptic, was surprised as anyone when he saw the craft just above the trees at Lake Cleburne, on June 11, 1995.

Leigh was parked near the lake where he had gone to enjoy the afternoon and relax. Upon seeing the object in the sky, he tried to convince himself that what he was seeing was not what it appeared to be. Soon, however, it became apparent by the object's movements that Leigh was seeing something other than an airplane or a weather balloon.

According to the operations department of the Fort Worth FAA, airliners do not fly over Cleburne because of city ordinance. They pass west of the city, instead. Leigh documented the times, talked to the FAA and the National Balloon Base in Palestine in an extraordinary effort, in order that he could present his video and findings accurately to the authorities, and to those who investigate UFO activity.

When asked if Leigh was concerned about what people might think of him, he shrugged and replied, "I know what I saw and there were others who saw it too, but they have not come forward" (despite his urging).

Leigh also took great pains to properly label everything visible on the video. "I was still trying to disprove the UFO theory," he said. He has identified weather anomalies such as slur (caused by rapid movement and limited camera range) and has reserved parts of the film for authorities only.

Whatever the object Leigh sighted was, the fact remains that he caught something unusual in the lens of his video camera and now he wants to know the truth about it. (AP).

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"UFO group plans second trip to study reported sighting"

Front Page article in the Times-Review

By Lori Elmore-Moon

Jason Leigh's attempts to contact the media via television and newspapers have been met with skepticism. Relentless, Leigh has continued his endeavors to alert the public by contacting various organizations such as MUFON, syndicated programs such as Sightings and Unexplained Mysteries, and local TV stations.

During an interview hosted by WFAA, Leigh told WFAA reporter Karin Kelly, "I felt complete awe...I'm wondering what 'they' (or 'it') are doing. The predominant thought was that they were surveying the area. Possibly making a map. In the footage I took, the object is mostly hovering over some cow pastures."

Leigh recalled an incident in Alvarado involving cattle mutilations which he feels is directly linked to UFOs.

"There was a story two years ago over at Alvarado - about cows and sheep that was pretty well hushed up," Leigh said. "It was right around the time of the video taped Dallas UFO sighting ; late spring or early summer of 1993."

While Leigh considers himself a neutral skeptic regarding the subject of UFOs, He has respected the passion with which people approach their encounters. "These people are afraid of not being believed. They had a sighting, but did not have a camera with which to record the event. I sort of fell into that category. I've never told another living person about my sightings until recently.

"I don't think we should make the mistake of saying that we believe in UFOs as we believe in God. It's more of an 'accepting the reality' of those who believe," he said. "Some of the people I have spoken with who say they believe in UFOs-- and it's so emotional for them--it's almost on a religious level and I think this is where we may be making a mistake.

"In my case, it does not matter what my commentary--I have the video and it speaks for itself. The video is the evidence. Not the person."

Members of MUFON, including field investigators Lance Oliver, Lindy Whitehurst, Paul Rutherford, and research specialist, Melinda Chance-Layhe, traveled to Cleburne to view Leigh's video tape and to visit the area of the sighting.

"The Mutual UFO Network is the world's largest international investigative organization of unidentified flying objects," Oliver, a field investigator for 15 years, said.

MUFON is comprised of laymen as well as scientists from across the globe.

"We try to observe these incidents from an objective, scientific point of view," Oliver said. "This sighting is very unusual. We are in the process right now of having it professionally analyzed.

"One possibility is that Leigh observed Exotic Phenomena-like a shooting star or a meteorite that grazed the earth's atmosphere. But at the low angle he saw the object, above a house top, the distance would have had to have been over 200 miles. People all over North America would have seen the thing.

"McDonald Observatory told me that there are no meteorites that would last for five minutes that would actually hit the atmosphere for that long without burning up or actually bouncing back into space," Oliver said.

"Leigh has also reported a sighting from June 1st, 1995, in which a large spherical object hung in the sky over Dallas. I personally saw that. I tracked it down - it was on a Thursday - and I witnessed it from about 7:10 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. The huge round sphere looked like a big dot in the sky. Someone video taped that object with high powered optics, put it through computer analysis, and it is anything but a weather balloon, which is what I've been told.

"The object over Dallas remained stationary for almost 30 minutes. It was pretty unusual. I called the balloon launching center in Palestine. They don't have spherical weather balloons and they don't know of anyone who does." said Oliver.

Anyone having any information about the sighting in Cleburne is encouraged to call MUFON. All reports remain confidential.

According to Oliver, Jason Leigh's sighting is excellent. Leigh is highly credible, and on the spot with a video camera. The video will be further studied.

"A lot of people think you're crazy," Oliver said with reference to UFO sightings. "There is a definite bias against strange things. If it's out of the ordinary...it's not something that [people] want to be associated with." (AP).

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These are only some of the dozens Worldwide Newspaper articles regarding Jason Leigh's UFO sightings, documents of proof and videos. Despite the major mass-media news this UFO incident acquired, the Radio interviews, Television Talk Shows and free public lectures with viewings of this historic video many have considered as 'concrete proof,' Jason Leigh.org spent over $5,000.00 in bringing this true story to the public--free of charge. All such great truths, in our view, should be offered up as free information for the better understanding of mankind's role in this vast Universe, a Universe in which we find ourselves relieved to know, that we are not the only upright, thinking beings trying to life the veil into the great expanse . . .  J.L.   6/11/2004 (9 years after).

 

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