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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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## 1. LEVELLAND INCIDENT - 2 November 1957 (UNCLASSIFIED) e. A mysterious object, whose shape was described variously as ranging from round to oval, and predominantly bluish-white in color was observed separately by six persons near the town of Levelland, Texas. Times of observations ranged from 2300 hours to after 0130 hours, night of 2-3 November 1957. Size of the object was estimated from that of a basketball to that of an object 200 feet in length. b. The unusual aspect of this incident was the statement by a number of observers that their car's ignition stopped completely during the occurrence. c. In a matter of hours this incident was given nation-wide publicity by the nation's press, radio and TV networks. For the next 72 hours ATIC and Headquarters USAF were deluged with a flood of UFO reports, the majority of observers claiming to have encountered a somewhat similar phenomenon: a dazzling bluish-white object, generally oval in shape, swooping down or floating nearby - that stopped their car's ignition. The reports were from persons of some standing in their communities casually reporting seeing the objects to those insisting that the "blue lights" stopped their car in heavy traffic in the middle of large cities during broad daylight.
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