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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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# Fiery Ovals Sighted in Far Places (From Dallas News Staff and Wire Reports) Flying fireballs, the hopped-up 1957 version of the old-time spinning saucers, Monday night were reported at such widely separated points as Foster, Ind., and the Fiji Islands. Even as the Air Force announced in Washington that it is sending a team of technicians to investigate the glowing, mysterious object spotted at Levelland, Texas, Saturday night and early Sunday, reports of similar sightings began to mount. And at least one student of flying saucers, who completed his personal investigation of the Levelland affair Monday, said he was firmly convinced that the object seen there "was a space craft from one of the neighboring planets." At White Sands Proving Ground, N.M., the Army reported that a huge oval object "nearly as bright as the sun" was spotted Sunday hovering near bunkers used in the first A-bomb explosion. The sightings at White Sands were made 17 hours apart by two different military police units patrolling the missile testing range in Southern New Mexico. First Lt., Miles F. Penney of Port Jervis, N.Y., commanding officer of the military police, said none of the men had heard radio reports or seen newspaper accounts of similar sightings elsewhere in the country. Both sightings were in the area of the new abandoned bunkers used by technicians who observed the world's first atomic explosion on July 16. 1946. Lieutenant Penney, whose base, the Stallion Site Camp, is about 90 miles north of the proving grounds headquarters, said the first sighting there was made at 3 a.m. Sunday by Cpl. Glenn H. Toy and a Pfc. Wilbanks, on patrol in a jeep. The two men said they were on routine patrol when they noticed a "very bright object" high in the sky. The object, described by Toy as egg-shaped and 75 to 100 yards in diaameter, then descended until it was about 50 yards above the bunkers. There, according to Toy, it went out. A moment later it "be- See THING, Page 9, Col. 1
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