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Are UFOs Frequenting a South Texas Drilling Site? Workers Claim These Pictures Say Yes

There’s a buzz among the workers at a drilling site in southern Texas that they might not alone. Eyewitness reports and footage taken by both workers and security cameras seem to capture what can at this point only be described as unidentified lights in the sky.

The San Antonio Express-News reported the workers at the Eagle Ford Shale for several nights in a row in October saw the lights and that a security camera’s footage from a few months earlier, albeit blurry and black and white, shows a disc-shaped object near another well site.

Workers at Eagle Ford Shale in Texas Report Seeing Unidentified Lights in the Sky

This image from the oil site’s security camera was sent to the Mutual UFO Network for investigation. (Image via San Antonio News-Express)

Here’s the accounts of a few witnesses:

“We all know what the lights from a plane or a helicopter look like,” said Rene Cantu, the oilfield worker who first sighted the orange lights. “This wasn’t a plane or a helicopter.”

“We sit on our back porch and watch planes go by every night,” said Jerry Farrell, a nearby rancher who saw the same lights as Cantu and his co-workers. “This was 12, 13, 14 lights, that were all spread out, flying all over the sky. And when they moved, it was at unbelievable speed, from horizon to horizon and back.”

Cantu was on a work break when he saw the lights. He yelled out to co-workers, who joined him watching the lights, which put on a 3-minute show, bouncing around the heavens like a celestial pinball machine.

The lights vanished for 25 minutes, then returned for another 3-minute show.

The stunned roughnecks wondered if they had been hallucinating. Then delivery trucks, which had been waiting down the road for their turn to approach the site, pulled up.

“The truck drivers were all, ‘Did you guys see those lights up there?’” Cantu said. “So it wasn’t just us.”

Workers at Eagle Ford Shale in Texas Report Seeing Unidentified Lights in the Sky

This image was taken by worker Xavier Graza with his cellphone of the October sighting. It reportedly shows unidentified lights in the sky. (Image via San Antonio News-Express)

The News-Express reported the sheriff’s office saying it didn’t receive any calls regarding the lights on these nights.

As for the image picked up by security cameras in July, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a volunteer group of UFO investigators, has looked into the claims and said that it has passed two of its authenticity tests, according to the News-Express.

“If it’s a prank,” MUFON investigator Charles Stansburge told the News-Express, “someone spent a lot of money to stage it. It’s not a doctored photo. It’s a 60-foot-diameter saucer that’s hovering.”

Adding to the story, MUFON was told by witnesses that the company owning the Eagle Ford Shale drilling site installed the security cameras in the first place because they noticed oil being siphoned from tanks.

The News-Express reported that MUFON’s investigation is still in its early stages. Stransburge said he doesn’t expect to find much since any physical evidence on the site could be long gone by now given the time that has elapsed since the image was taken.

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Comments (104)

  • FaithfulFriend
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:36pm

    All this alien super advanced technology…. and every one of them still needs visual light shining out to see in the dark?

    Complete horse crap, and always has been.

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    • wordsofwisdom
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:56pm

      Unless? What if they were ours & not alien? What if the lights were their for all the same reasons that other craft have them? What looks like a duck etc; may well be a duck! I am just saying that we may be have been lied to by those in control. I think we are under more control then you may realize! The fact is that UFO’s are real. What we don’t know is who’s are they? I’m praying they are ours! How about you? This song is for politicians but could fit this story as well called “Walk’s Like a Duck” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11352998
      Grab your ass, it’s about to get even more interesting fast!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:13pm

      the Chinese are checking out there assets

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    • garylee123
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:26pm

      Why the heck can’t anyone take a clear picture?

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    • RedeemedWench
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:27pm

      Ahh, I see the government has upgraded from black helicopters to “flying saucers” so they can continue running drugs to/from Central & South America and ship weapons to Mexican Drug cartels and Syrian Rebels. And then blame it on the aliens. Sweet!

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    • Xiccarph
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:51pm

      Why would alien craft or inhabitants behave that much differently or employ features so different than our craft? They just do it more efficiently, quietly and neater. They have the same mundane issues we would have driving down a highway at night without lights. “They” will have the same type of physical limitations as we do, and even with better technology, may still need running lights in a crowded sky. Some of the lighting on these craft however, are not for “seeing” in the dark, but are a result of the energy systems used. And yeah, our hyper-secretive gov’t has a few of these things, postulated as the result of reverse engineering (the TR-3B for instance) to aliens’ sharing of technology with the gov’ts. Also, remember even if you think “aliens” (or time traveler ‘tourists’ as some speculate) are bunk, our wonderful gov’t is always an easy 10-30 yrs ahead of the civilian sector in technology and research. Our tax dollars at work , but only for THEIR first benefit.

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:51pm

      If these are aliens and they have this tech, please remove the current government so we can replace it with a good and just one!

      BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:10pm

      EPA drones, looking for endangered species so they can justify shutting down the evil oil drilling, and further justify buying all our NATURAL fuels from fascist dictators, both muslim & communist with whom COMMIEcrats seem enamored.

      (j/k… sort of)

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    • ArchaicSEAL
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:22pm

      Your presumption is really flawed. Who is to say that they NEED visual spectrum light to see at all? Perhaps that is not the purpose of the lights to “them” (whoever they may be, from humans to aliens.) It could be that they, in fact, want to *BE* seen. All individuals or groups of human beings always have an agenda, therefore we can assume that a sentient and advanced alien culture would also have an agenda. What that agenda could be (if indeed they are non-human) would be hard to understand, because, after all, the thing about aliens is that they are alien. If they are Alien, then honestly, I am sure that if they are advanced enough to cross vast amounts of light years of empty space (by either bypassing light speed restrictions or making the long haul) then they are advanced enough to use fields to cloak their craft as well as night vision technology to see clearly in the dark. Therefore Occam’s razor would guide us towards the idea that they want to be seen.

      Again, I don’t know if these things we are seeing are simply the next generation propulsion system in human made (read: military) hands. I will not jump to the alien theory completely just yet. However, there is no doubt in my mind that interstellar travel in short amounts of time is possible. The ability to manipulate gravity is one way, the ability cancel out the Higgs field is another. We can’t do it yet, but maybe they can if they are out there.

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    • toiletclogga
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:34pm

      Looks like the same crap Greg Brady used to try to fool Jan and Marcia; a tin plate on a string!

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    • coleneghs
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:41pm

      look at this video

      http://megasharre.info/ufos-space-shooting-with-the-iss-september-13-2012

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:58pm

      I noticed that no one posting on this story caught the connection that the UFO is siphoning oil. This coul be why they are “casing the joint”, so to speak. They need it to fly those gas guzzlers. Obama doesn’t have a birth cirt. Get the connection? He’s one of em’. He’s trying to save the oil for his buddies.

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    • floridasharkman
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 5:15pm

      its moochelles left foot in a light up nike shoe someone left some fried chicken in their lunchpail at the jobsite this was also on episode 666 of finding bigfoot

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    • navydoc2008
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:35pm

      @XIC
      I’m no Einstein but, I would think that if those are “faster than light” crafts (no matter where they came from), then… I would assume lights would be useless? After all they would need to have some type of force field and internal navigation system so as not to crash when traveling at warp speeds. So I would think that using lights to navigate would be kinda like using a white cane out the window while driving your car. Just a thought, I could be wrong as it appears they must run on shale oil, since they seem to be emptying the oil tanks. Or maybe the funny little green guys drink oil. Maybe they just use lights to mess with us. Or better yet maybe they are just the cool ones like the streeters that have light kits under their cars. Man that would be cool, I want lights on my space ship when I get one.

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    • AnnCotton31691
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:21pm

      What about UFOs on the moon video? Is it real or fake ? and google for “giant ufo over sun”, i don’t realy know what to think.

      http://theviral.info/share/ufo-sighting-moon-photo-video-34543

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    • GeneralZap
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:32pm

      Think of it this way my friend; if I was the devil, I would take full reign when Christians are raptured, but plant seeds even before that. I would make them know aliens exist, but never show devilish horns. I would show them beautiful technologies, but no glimpse of Hell. They might smell a burn, but it would only be from technology no one understands, or power God gave us long ago no one in an atheist world cares to remember or think of.

      If I was the devil, I would claim Christians were intolerant, that we abducted them and put them into reeducation camps, and that now we would “persuade” the world to World Peace under a single throne. We would promise wonderful technologies, wonderful foods, and true or near equality in every single way.

      You see, there is a reason, if I was the devil, that ghosts (demons) and evil spirits don’t truly get caught on camera. What do they serve “me,” the devil? They tell people there is a very sharp good and very sharp evil! Let them think in the grey zone. As the devil, I would let Edmund Burke’s quote come to pass with even more force without Christians present.

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    • FaithfulFriend
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:29pm

      If I were worried about control, I’d be single.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:48am

      GOOD POINT

      Everyone of the UFOs is also different. Why would the space aliens have so many different different models of space craft. Are we to believe that 100s of different spaced alien nations are visiting us at the same time? None of this UFO stuff should even be on a legitimate news web site.

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    • Deb C
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 6:25pm

      We have a well-paid liasion with nothing to do….

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:20pm

    Maybe the aliens are here to help remove Obama from office.

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    • Jim S
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:31pm

      ..cool…aliens need headlights and turn signals..thought they might have progressed from 19th century technology to travel the vastness of space…but this fits in with the National Enquirer theme taking hold on here…

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    • Angel_light
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:59pm

      maybe he is one of them, but an outcast from their planet. Being humiliated that he is so stupid he came here and somehow was welcomed. Now he is our leader and his buddies are coming to see what the h*ll is wrong with US.

      I always wondered if they pity us or see us as disposable, maybe like a third world planet?

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    • FstEti
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:00pm

      Boy,if that’s true, they have no idea what they are dealing with. They might get here okay but the sheer number of regulations that their craft would have to comply with to leave with him (emissions contributing to Intergalactic Warming) would take YEARS to wade through. On the positive side, while they are waiting for approval for take off, they would be immediately eligible for many benefits duringe). their stay, including ASL (Alien as a second language).

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    • navydoc2008
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:39pm

      @ Jim
      This is a sore point with the aliens, please dont bring it up again. It was mandated to them by their Space Safety Agency that they needed to have running lights when within the atmosphere due to the high number of space ship collisions they were having. If they get caught without lights on they could be fined or lose their space craft license.

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    • Wolfgang the Gray
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:06pm

      I’d buy that for a Dollar!

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  • thekuligs
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:47am

    They are drones from the EPA or other fringe enviromentaist groups!

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    • Keatonc33
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:34pm

      I think extra terrestrials visiting earth is more believable than a fringe environmentalist group raising enough money to create a drone.

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    • DSN397
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:43pm

      KEATONC33 You idiot, the environmentalist group was just re-elected in November, where the hell
      you been? It was in all the papers.

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  • Acena
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:47am

    “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
    Stephen Hawking

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  • Watchyer6
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:39am

    Why do these alleged UFO’s always have lights? Wouldn’t they want to be stealthy?
    It’s just like the purported “aliens” who, even though they are, in theory, the product of a completely alien evolutionary process, just happen to look semi-human.

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    • Bohump
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:35pm

      They don’t have to be Stealthy,…… There are the biggest dog on the block !

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    • truthnstuff
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:39pm

      Yep. If one engages in critical thinking you might say…..if there were no lights there would be no news.

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    • GNAC
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:40pm

      Why is a soap bubble shaped the way it is? Perhaps (assuming you subscribe to aliens being around) it has to do with gravity , modes of locomotion, etc. We have lots of animals with 2 to 4 legs – why. Almost all of our animals have heads, torsos, and legs…..those who have no legs – worms, snakes, fish, etc. would have a hard time manipulating tools….

      It MAY be that our shape is not unique – but a precursor to development ……

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    • The Loon
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:56pm

      that’s because they aren’t aliens, they are super advanced humans from thousands of years in the future coming back to our time in time machines in order to study man because of some kind of disease or other catastrophe in their time that we may have an immunity to now…or they’re nothing at all

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  • Shrugged
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:33am

    Sounds to me the aliens were new teenage drivers our for a weekend spin . . . . siphoning gasoline to take a sky trip. Don’t tell their alien parents.

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  • bobnweave
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:17am

    Deep sea sleeper drones fly out of OCEAN
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2v0JJGyUf4
    (the pic is artist rendered, the info is not)

    BBC News Fail: Chemtrails Disinformation
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oByYauiyL0M&list=PL0iCjnhrjXsoWs9pc4iYAqgJ2Uo-QToSj

    …just flirting to keep ya cheerful…

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  • schroeder123
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:06am

    I want to Believe.

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    • ltb
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:20am

      No you don’t want to believe. Trust me.

      —-

      “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” — Matthew 24:37

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  • Exidor
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:55am

    Lights on at night.

    Well that cinches it….

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:47am

    Actually, they were visiting Glenn.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:01pm

      Y EASTINFECTION do go getting paramoid on us.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:59pm

      Hi East,

      Have you seen to “submit” button after you post (and get temporarily logged out)?

      Click on it after you post.

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  • BlasberryStrat
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:39am

    Sorry guys. That was just my Ex-Wife taking her new broom for a spin…

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    • starman70
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 7:40pm

      It was the GEICO witch looking for a new source of brooms. The company where she was getting her brooms went bankrupt, the workers were laid off and the company’s assets sold to China.

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  • walnutportconservative
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:27am

    Folks, we need to get our attention off gun ownership, and focus on the right to own and operate drones. Don’t think for a moment, that our feds are afraid of AR’s when they access the latest and greatest in drones. I want a drone, you can have the AR

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  • SREGN
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:27am

    Aliens siphoning oil from the tanks to run their spaceship? I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.

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  • HigherRoad
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:22am

    The book, Area 51, revealed that our government has been in the UFO business for a long, long time. If not them, then another country most certainly. There is no longer any privacy or security. We are all being tracked by satellite or drone.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:40pm

      I read the book. I was disappointed because it only talks about military aeronautical history and black projects associated with “the ranch”….all of which is declassified and can be learned from wikipedia. There is so much more that was only lazily grazed over, which has been frequently spoken about by multiple credible sources, and the author seemed to dismiss it as something not worth considering. If you like military history and aircraft, I recommend the book. If you are looking for a comprehensive book about Area 51, don’t bother.

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  • jcldwl
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:09am

    They could be some type of government drone true. The fact they are UFO’s just means they are unidentified flying objects. So these objects are flying and no one we know of can identify them. Or perhaps no one is allowed to identify them. The government is in the business of the UFO game for one reason and one reason only. To cover things up. Whether it is to cover up secret government projects or to cover up actual alien flying craft from somewhere other than this earth. None of us really know hence the label Unidentified Flying Object.

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  • P4cooler
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:01am

    I know there is lots of traffic out there… Who knows what their agenda is? If our black budget programs have this technology it is clear they don not give a hoot if we live or die. Our government is bursting with tyranny and will/would/is using this tech for surveillance & control. I hope there are good guys out there that would engage the corruption here on planet Earth. Fascinating to see these things…. My wife and I felt “high” for weeks after witnessing this stuff. I’m in my later years of life and my one of my big regrets/sorrows is that I was never able to see our Earth from afar. I would love to see Saturn’s rings up close etc…

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    • castious
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:27pm

      Please read the military oath to the constituion everyone they are 99.99% good guys that do keep the oath forever i know i am one of them i have and will keep that oath.

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    • Jerry3805
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:19pm

      Have you read up on NASA and project Blue Beam

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:59am

    It’s just Al Gore checking up on his investment…

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    • TADTAD
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:30am

      Yes. That fraud AlGore owns a lot of stock in Occidental. The hypocrisy and idiocy of the left and half of Amerika is staggering. When I was growing up, my father used to say, “Son, half of Americans are idiots.” Shortly before he passed he said, “Son, I was wrong, 85% of Americans are idiots.”

      As an aside, these parents of the shooting victims of Sandy Hook are useful idiots and they are selfish. They are being marched out to podiums to publicly weep and mourn. They give no regard to the guarantees of our Constitution. They are being played like a Les Paul by Dickey Betts. I am feel sorry for them, but they are unable to see the forest for the trees. Bring it on Encinom, or whatever the hell your name is, and all you other idiots…..

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:00am

      @TADTAD…I’m afraid your father’s last estimate was more on the mark….And if a Lefty tells you it’s black,I can assure you it is in fact white…

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  • phunkymunkey
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:58am

    I heard that the aliens were planning on landing there, but decided against it after they received word of the obama administrations atrocities. The EPA required too much paperwork, and their spaceship emitted too much carbon.

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  • ares338
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:55am

    Arrgghhhhhh…..those aren’t aliens…they’re Democrats looking for evil guns. Well, they could be illegal aliens!

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  • ArmedAndReallyPissed
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:55am

    The Security Camera Video is 6 months old and it’s just now being made public?

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    • teapartyrocker
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:52am

      Yah! I want to see the video, not just a picture! What gives?

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    • Tresse
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 6:46pm

      The reason they won’t show you the video is because you would see the billboard falling over.

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  • Top_Contributor
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:53am

    It’s the toxic gasses that the wells emit that’s causing these drillers to hallucinate.

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    • txannie
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:41am

      I see you’ve been drinking the environmentalists koolade…

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    • Top_Contributor
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:14pm

      Science, tea bag. Get with it.

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    • navydoc2008
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:27pm

      @Top…
      Well I dont know they saw but…. Your true colors show in your statement. You show your ignorance by not reading (or at the very least not understanding what you read), and then spuing out nonsense. The drillers saw the same thing as the truckers that were not even on the site. So unless the “toxic gasses” are intelligent enough to seek out the truckers that were driving to that location, it is likely that they were not under the influence of any toxic gas. Furthermore, the picture on the surveilance camera is most likely not of any toxic gas. Okay I will admit I’m not an expert on toxic gas. I doubt whats in the picture is alien in nature, but hey I could be wrong. I guess that is the difference between me and you lefties, I can admit I’m not always right.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:46am

    Maybe it is a US EPA drone spying on the evil oil companies.

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  • mdlwoods
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:43am

    Guess I’ll check with my hubby tonight to see if in is 30 years in the oilfield he ever saw any UFOs!!!

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:43am

    EPA drones, spying on us citizens?

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:43am

    I don’t believe in UFOs. If anything, it is our own government.

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