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Lubbock Lights

August 25, 1951, evening (repeated sightings to September 5)
Lubbock, Texas, USA

Explanation proposed
Representative drawing from the Crescents page, not this specific sighting.
"lights in a "U" or arc; a V in the photos"The witness's own shape words

What happened

Sitting in a backyard, the professors saw an arc of 15-30 soft lights cross the sky in seconds, then a second group. They saw them again on later nights and tried to measure them. On August 30 Hart took five photos of 18-20 lights in a V. None of the professors saw a solid body. The disc page excludes Lubbock as lights.

Witnesses

Texas Tech professors W. I. Robinson (geology), A. G. Oberg (chemical engineering) and W. L. Ducker (petroleum engineering), later E. Richard Heineman (mathematics); student Carl Hart Jr., photographer

Explanation

Explanation proposed

Plovers reflecting new mercury-vapor streetlights (Ruppelt).

Sources

  1. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956), ch. 8, Project Gutenberggutenberg.org
  2. Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org