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

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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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# AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

ROM (Agency)	REPORT NO.	Part Three
PAGE	9	OF	19	PAGES
I. SOURCE:
Address: Levelland, Texas
Age: 43
Occupation:
Qualification: Officer's School of Texas

Qualification: Officer's School of Texas

II. RELIABILITY: SOURCE impressed the investigator as being of average intelligence. He was eager to cooperate in resolving the sighting and frequently asked the sudden importance of the county. SOURCE can be considered fairly reliable.

III. SOURCE'S DESCRIPTION OF SIGHTING: At 03/0130 CST November 1957, SOURCE was travelling south on the Oklahoma Flat Road (refer to Inclosure 1, Part Seven) at a reddish glow and moved from south to west in two seconds. SOURCE estimated the object to be eight hundred feet at its longest dimension and estimated the object to the possible cause of the sighting. SOURCE had no opinion as

NOTE. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U.S.C. IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART. BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES. EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, USAF.

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