The Lubbock Lights

The Lubbock Lights

From the evening of 25 August 1951 professors of Texas Technical College watched formations of lights pass over Lubbock, Texas: “a series of lights in an arcuate formation which covered about 10° in the sky”, in their own report (NAID 28939743, image 84), or “a ‘V’ or ‘U’ shaped set of light-like objects”, in a later summary (image 19). They timed the flights at thirty degrees per second and saw “ten or twevle [sic] flights” up to about 1 November 1951 (image 85). A college freshman photographed formations of lights at the end of August; the papers give the night as both 30 and 31 August. The Air Force’s photographic laboratory wrote: “It is not possible at this time to confirm or deny the authenticity of these negatives as a record of unknown objects against either a starlit or overcast sky.” (image 90) Blue Book’s index files the case as “Other (BIRDS)” (NAID 28921348, image 42).

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