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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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# Blinding 'Flying Saucer' Stops' Texas Motorcars Levelland, Tex. (UP) A mysterious egg-shaped object, red as a blinding setting sun and faster than the speed of sound, streaked over West Texas and New Mexico Saturday night and early yesterday, and one man said he even saw it sitting in the highway. James A. Lee of Abilene, Tex., who is a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, rushed here to investigate and said he will send a report to Washington. The object was also reported seen in the vicinities of Midland, Tex., 110 miles south of Levelland, and Clovis, N.M., about 70 miles northwest of Levelland. THE MOST graphic description came from Jesse D. Long of Waco, Tex., who said the object killed the engine of his automobile and put out his headlights. Other motorists said it did the same thing to their cars. Long said the object appeared to be about 200 feet long and landed in the highway in front of his car. When he got out to investigate the thing took off straight up. SHERIFF Weir Clem and Deputy Sheriff Pat McCullough, who went out to investigate the reports, said they 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," said Clem. Lee, thoroughly impressed, said reports that automobile engines stalled and headlights went out convinced him a flying object definitely had visited the area. He said machines inside the object "disturb the magnetic field of balance" and will cause car engines to stall and compasses to go awry. LEE SAID he definitely did not think the object was launched by the United States. Pedro Sacido, a Levelland motorist, was the first to report sighting the thing. He said he was driving west of Levelland on State Highway 116 about 11:15 p.m. (CST) Saturday, when it flashed over him with a terrific noise.
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