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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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PRECEDENCE TYPE MSG (Check) ACCOUNTING SYMBOL AF ORIG. OR REFERS TO CLASSIFICATION OF REFERENCE ACTION EOCK MULTI SINGLE X INFO PRIORITY FROM: COMDR ATIC TO: ACS/1, WASHINGTON, D.C. ATTN: AFCIN-XL MAJ BYRNES CONFIDENTIAL/FROM: AFCIN-4E4 CITE 10 41050 REFERENCE PREVIOUS MESSAGE IN EIGHT PARTS, DTD 8 NOVEMBER 1957. THIS IS ADDITIONAL INFO RE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED INCIDENTS. REF. PART I OF PREVIOUS MESG: INVESTIGATION OF ANOTHER SOURCE IN AREA WHO CLAIMS THAT HIS IGNITION STALLED AT TIME OF SIGHTING, DISCLOSED THAT HIS DISTRIBUTOR ROTOR WAS CHANGED IN HIS TRUCK DAY BEFORE. FURTHER, STATE-MENT FROM MECHANIC INDICATES THAT PIECE OF OLD ROTOR LATER FOUND WEDGED IN BETWEEN POINTS. REF. PART IV, SENTS INCIDENT: HOSPITAL EXAMINATION REVEALS NO BURNS ON THEM. UNDER EXAMINATION ADMITS THAT HE HAD EXPERIENCED RADIO FADE-OUT IN THAT AREA PREVIOUSLY. WITNESSES WHOM CLAIMS TO HAVE JOTTED DOWN CANNOT BE FOUND AFTER DILIGENT SEARCH. EVALUATED AS BY AF INVESTIGATORS. WRITER SYMBOL AFCIN-4E4 RELEASEER SIGNATURE TYPED NAME AND TITLE (Signature, if required) Capt George T. Gregory TYPED (or stamped) NAME AND TITLE PHONE 69216 PAGE NO. 1 NR. OF PAGES 2 SECURITY CLASSIFICATION DD 1 FORM 173 REPLACES DO FORM 173. 1 OCT 49. WHICH WILL BE USED UNTIL EXHAUSTED
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