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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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NOV 2, 1957 LEVELLAND, TEXAS, HIGHWAY 116 (KEYHOE-1960 P 114) 2 WITNESSES00 JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT, TRUCK DRIVER WAS DRIVING TOWARD TOWN 01 WITH A PASSENGER, WHEN A HUGE TORPEDO-SHAPED OBJECT DESCENDED 02 TOWARD THE HIGHWAY. IT HAD A BLUISH-GREEN GLOW, AND IT APPEARED TO BE 150 TO 03 200 FEET LONG. AS THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT CAME CLOSER, THE CAR LIGHTS DIMMED, THEN THE ENGINE SPUTTERED AND DIED. JUMPED OUT AND DIVED UNDER THE TRUCK. AS WATCHED FROM THE CAB, THE STRANGE OBJECT SETTLED CLOSE TO THE ROAD. WHETHER IT LANDED, OR WAS HOVERING JUST OFF THE GROUND, SHOULD NOT TELL -- THE BLUE-GREEN LIGHT WAS TOO BRIGHT. FOR TWO OR THREE MINUTES THE UFO REMAINED THERE. THEN IT QUICKLY LIFTED, ITS GLOW CHANGING TO RED AS IT CLIMBED. SHAKEN, O GOT BACK INTO HIS TRUCK. THE LIGHTS AND IGNITION NOW WORKED CORRECTLY. HE DROVE INTO LEVELLAND, TOLD THE SHERIFF HIS STORY, WITH AS A WITNESS. AT FIRST, SHERIFF WEIR CLEM WAS INCREDULOUS. BUT IN THE NEXT HOUR HE LEARNED OF FOUR OTHER CASES WHERE LIGHTS HAD BEEN DIMMED AND ENGINES STOPPED BY LOW APPROACH OF (WHAT WAS APPARENTLY) THE SAME OBJECT. AMONG THE WITNESSES17 WERE TRUCKER, N OF ANTON, TEXAS, AND OF WACO. WHILE WAS CHECKING ONE REPORT, HE AND DEPUTY SAW21 A WEIRD GLOW AS (WHAT WAS APPARENTLY) THE SAME OBJECT PASSED ABOVE THE HIGHWAY. THIS ALSO WAS SEEN BY AND FOLLOWING IN SEPARATE CARS. IT WAS THEN 1.30 A.M.
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