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Project Blue Book case file: Levelland, November 2-3, 1957 (81 pages)

USAF / National Archives via The Black Vault · 82 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 23 …However, we have never heard of the " ducting of air" and certainly if a suitable volume…
  • p. 41 …Adds the paper, "There was never any hint as to what he found out or whether…
  • p. 42 …This mammoth task would never have been accomplished without the whole-hearted and energetic support of…
  • p. 48 …on the night of November 2 can never be absolutely proved, even though this explanation fits…
gaseous object which moved swiftly and left an ember trail. There were dozens more. It was a memorable Saturday night in Lavalland.

But unbeknown to Sheriff Clem or the residents of West Texas,

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