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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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NX12A LEVELLAND, TEX. NOV. 4.--(UP)--A MAN WHO HAS SPENT 20 YEARS STUDYING AERIAL PHEX JENA. SAID TODAY HE BELIEVE A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT SEEN IN WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO WAS A SPACE CRAFT FROM ONE OF THE NEIGHBORING PLANETS. THE EXPERT IS 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. RUSHED HERE YESTERDAY UPON HEARING OF THE LATEST OBJECT, SEEN BY AT LEAST NINE PERSONS IN TWO STATES. COINCIDING WITH RUSSIA, S LAUNCHING OF ITS SECOND EARTH SATELLITE, THE THING WOULD HAVE CAUSED LITTLE MORE ALARM. IF SMALL GREEN MEN KAD JUMPED OUT OF IT. THE EGG-SHAPED OBJECT, DESCRIBED AS ABOUT 200 FEET LONG AND A BRILLIANT-RED, WAS GLIMPSED BY AT LEAST FIVE PERSONS IN THE LEVELLAND AREA, INCLUDING THE SHERIFF, THREE PERSONS AT MIDLAND AND ANOTHER AT CLOVIS, N. M. C OF WACO. SAID HE WAS DRIVING ON A FARM-TO-MARKET ROAD WEST OF LEVELLAND AT 1:15 A.M. SUNDAY WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED THE OBJECT SITTING IN THE ROAD. HE SAID IT WAS OVAL-SHAPED, ABOUT 200 FEET LONG AND GLOWED LIKE A NEON SIGN. HE GOT OUT OF HIS CAR ABOUT 200 FEET AWAY TO INVESTIGATE BUT WHEN HE DID THE OBJECT SUDDENLY TOOK OFF_WITH A ROAR STRAIGHT UP INTO THE AIR. SAID HIS ENGINE COUGHED AND DIED AND HIS HEADLIGHTS SUDDENLY WENT OUT. WHEN HE GOT HIS CAR STARTED, HE HURRIED BACK TO TOWN. TWO OTHER PERSONS SAID THEY SAW THE OBJECT IN THE LEVELLAND AREA ABOUT AN HOUR EARLIER. BOTH SAID THE OBJECT PASSED OVER THEIR CARS WITH A ROAR LIKE THUNDER. THE ENGINES OF THEIR CARS DIED AND THE HEADLIGHTS WENT OUT, TOO. AND HIS DEPUTY, SPOTTED THE OBJECT STREAKING ACRROSS THE SKY IN FRONT OF THEIR CAR. IT LIT UP THE WHOLE PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF US FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS, HE CALLED IT OVAL-SHAPED AND SAID IT LOOKED LIKE A BRILLIANT RED SUNSET. THE GROUND OBSERVER CORPS AT MIDLAND REPORTED THAT AN UNIDENTIFIED MOTHER AND HER TWO CHILDREN SAW A LARGE OBJECT OF BLUISH COLOR FLYING WEST AND VERY LOW EARLY SATURDAY NIGHT. SAID HE SAW A STREAK OF LIGHT LIKE A FIRE BALL MOVING IN A SOUTH- EASTERLY DIRECTION ABOUT 8 P.M. SATURDAY. "I THINK IT'S A SPACE CRAFT FROM ONE OF THE NEIGHBORING PLANETS," HE DECLARED. SAID MACHINES INSIDE THE OBJECT DISTURB THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF BALANCE AND WILL CAUSE CAR, ENGINES TO STALL AND COMPASSES TO VEER CRAZILY. ( For a print who reminds that object, he apparently HE SAID HE WILL MAKE A REPORT OF HIS INVESTIGATION TO WASHINGTON. HS416A
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