On January 8, 2008, hundreds of residents of the small town of Stephenville Texas looked up into the winter sky and saw an object "as big as a WalMart."

The sightings made national headlines as television news crews from the major networks and CNN, converged on the town. Many had captured the strange lights on video cameras and cell phones. At close inspection, the footage was blurry and inconclusive at best, and the even the reliable witnesses accounts seemed dubious.

The Air Force claimed the UFO the town folk saw was merely a pair of National Guard F-16s on a training maneuver out of Ft. Worth. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Case solved. Merely mass hysteria and small town imaginations run amuck... or was it?

My UFO started off life as a chrome hubcap. The details were created in Adobe Illustrator and brought into Photoshop. Small town elements like the water tower were from photos I took in East Texas. The police car was a 3D model from Google SketchUp. Although SketchUp does not do photo realistic rendering, it did provide very accurate details an perspective.