Levelland

Levelland

On the night of 2/3 November 1957 people around Levelland, Texas, reported lights, and some said their vehicles failed. The 1006th Air Intelligence Service Squadron questioned six of them, and its report of 8 November sums up: “Only one observer (Part One) said an object hovered over or on the ground.” Others “saw a light streak across the sky (Parts Three and Four) or a bolt of lightning (Part Five).” (NAID 28972840, image 78) In Part One a student’s engine, lights and radio went out, and when the object left “the motor started with no difficulty” (image 62); in Part Two a barber’s truck engine and lights went out and came back (image 65), an account the reporting officer said “cannot be relied upon” (image 78). The report ends: “this sighting is forwarded as unresolved.” (image 78) The record card concludes “Ball lightning” (image 1).

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