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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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PRECEDENCE TYPE MSG (Check) ACCOUNTING SYMBOL ORIG. OR REFER TO CLASSIFICATION OF REFERENCE ACTION BOOK MULTI SINGLE X AF INFO: PRIORITY FROM: COMDR ATIC TO: ACS/1, WASHINGTON, D.C. ATTN: AFCIN-XL, MAJ BYRNE FROM: AFCIN-4E4 CITE THIS MESSAGE IN EIGHT PARTS. REFERENCE NUMEROUS PRESS QUERIES TO HEADQUARTERS USAF AND ATIC DURING LAST THREE DAYS REGARDING UFO INCIDENTS THROUGHOUT U.S. GIVEN WIDE PUBLICITY, AND YOUR REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE CONCLUSIONS OR FINDINGS. PART I. KEARNEY, NEBRASKA "SPACE SHIP" INCIDENT. SOURCE, CONSIDERED WHOLLY UNRELIABLE SOURCE. HAS WIDE AND HAS REFUSED TO TAKE LIE DETECTOR TESTS. LOCAL SHERIFF STATES HE CAN BREAK IT'S STORY TO MAKE HIM PERSONALLY ADMIT STORY WAS A HOAX. BELIEVE PORTION OR ALL OF THIS RELEASED TO PRESS. THEREFORE, USAF RELEASE TO PUBLIC CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE. PART II. GULF OF MEXICO, COAST GUARD CUTTER "SABEGO" SIGHTING 200 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ORLEANS. FACTS SOMEWHAT DATE 08 TIME 0900 MONTH NOV YEAR 57 WRITER SYMBOL AFCIN-4E4 RELEASEER SIGNATURE TYPED NAME AND TITLE (Signature, if required) Capt G. T. Gregory TYPED (or stamped) NAME AND TITLE PHONE 69216 PAGE NR. 1 NR. OF PAGES 6 BECURITY CLASSIFICATION DD: FORM MAY 55 173 REPLACES DD FORM 173, 1 OCT 40, WHICH WILL BE USED UNTIL EXHAUSTED
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