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This 81-page Project Blue Book case file covers the Levelland, Texas sightings of the night of 2 to 3 November 1957. It holds the record card, Air Force teletype reports from the 1006th AISS and radar units, witness questionnaires, press clippings about the White Sands sightings, and analyst memos. Several witnesses said a bluish-white oval object stopped their car engines. The Air Force concluded the cause was ball lightning in stormy weather, with wet or faulty ignition systems explaining the engine failures.
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Five witnesses report seeing objects in the vicinity of Levelland, Texas on the night of 2 November 1957. The time reported by these witnesses is between 2300 and 2400 hours. The general description of the UFO's is that they were round to oval in shape and ranged from the size of a baseball to a basketball. The colors reported were white with a greenish tint, blue, reddish glow, red and a flash of white light. Several of the witnesses reported that the engine of their car died due to electrical disturbances. The dura-tion of most of these sightings was approximately several seconds. At 2045 on 4 November 1957, a witness reported an UFO as red and the size of a basketball, connected to a larger darker object by what appeared to be a cable. After a proximately three or four minutes the object rose and disappeared into the base of the clouds. The weather at the time of the sightings on 2 November 1957, was a 400' overcast, visibility three miles, light and variable. There was a drizzle or light rain throughout the period and the area had been subjected to heavy thunderstorms just prior to the sightings. The weather on the 4th of November 1957, thick heavy clouds and light rain. It is concluded that the cause of the sightings on 2 November 1957, was probably due to a phenomena known as "Ball Lightning". The cause for the witnesses cars stopping could be attributed to the sudden disposition of moisture on distributor parts, especially if moisture condensation nuclei were enhanced by increased atmospheric ionization. In one instance a faulty distributor was determined as being the cause for the motor stoppage. The object sighted on 4 November 1957, was probably a weather balloon with the safety light which is attached to these balloons for night launchings. K 243.6010-1 2-3 Nov 1971 RETURN TO: Director Aerospace Studies Inst ATTN: Archives Branch Maxwell AFB, Alabama
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