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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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Texans See 'Craft From Outer Space' By the United Press. LEVELLAND, Tex., Nov. 4. —A man who has spent 20 years studying aerial phenomena said today he believed a mysterious object seen in West Texas and New Mexico "was a space craft from one of the neighboring planets." The expert is James A. Lee, of Abilene, Tex., a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and a director of Inter-Planetary Space Patrol, a West Texas organization which investigates "flying saucers" and similar objects. Mr. Lee rushed here yesterday upon hearing of the latest object, seen by at least nine persons in two states. The egg-shaped object was described as about 200 feet long and a brilliant red. James D. Long, of Waco, said he was driving near Levelland yesterday when he encountered the object sitting in the road. He said that he got out of his car 200 feet away to investigate, but that, when he did, the object suddenly took off with a roar straight into the air. Mr. Long said his engine coughed and died and his headlights suddenly went out. Two other persons in the Levelland area said the object passed over their cars with a roar. The engines of their cars died and the headlights went out, too. Sheriff Weir Clem and his deputy, Pat McCullough, spotted the object streaking across the sky in front of their car. "It lit up the whole pavement in front of us for about two seconds," Mr. Clem said. 1. DAY STORE HOURS 10:00 T W.T.S-11/4/57
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