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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. 23 …However, we have never heard of the " ducting of air" and certainly if a suitable volume…
  • p. 41 …Adds the paper, "There was never any hint as to what he found out or whether…
  • p. 42 …This mammoth task would never have been accomplished without the whole-hearted and energetic support of…
  • p. 48 …on the night of November 2 can never be absolutely proved, even though this explanation fits…
## DISPOSITION FORM

FILE NO.	SUBJECT Referral of Correspondence
70 Personal Services Branch FROM CINFO-PI	DATE 14 November 57 COMMENT NO.1
Office of Secretary of Defense
Major Walker/55136/wgk
ATTN: Lt Colonel Peter Brickson
The attached correspondence is forwarded as a matter pertaining to your office.
FOR THE CHIEF OF PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION:
1 Incl
Ltr from Domenic Ripani
1108 Western Avenue
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Dated 10 Nov 1957	VICTOR L. WALKER
Major, GS-17?
Public Information Division

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