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Project Blue Book case file: Levelland, November 2-3, 1957 (81 pages)

USAF / National Archives via The Black Vault · 82 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 16 …Formal request in writing is made because the case file will undoubtedly be sent to Washington…
  • p. 22 …Levelland UFO Incident: Hypothesis ROUTING Initial "IN" column to denote review prior to action. Initial "OUT…
and they had a brand new twirl. To do things up right the power that guides the UW0 picked the town of Lovelland only 27 miles west of Lubbock, the home of the now traditional "Lubbock Lights,

long storms, facts and rumors about these famous sightings the only positive fact is that there were scattered storm clouds across east Texas on the night of November 4, 1957. This was

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