The Lubbock Lights
Between the months of August and September, year 1951, unusual light formation was seen over Lubbock City, Texas. The incident received lots of attention from the national media, which dubbed it as the Lubbock Lights. It is also considered as one of the first and biggest UFO encounters in the USA.
The US Air Force investigated the light formation and initially believed that these lights were from plovers, a type of birds. Later on, they concluded that the lights were not birds, but neither were spaceships and that the lights can be considered a common, natural phenomenon.
The lights sightings was first reported to happen on August 25, 1951, at 9 pm. Three Texas Technological College professors were at a backyard when they noticed lights flying overhead. The lights are star-bright but they knew that they weren’t stars because they are larger. About 20-30 lights flew overhead in just seconds. As they were discussing what they saw, a second group of lights, similar to the first ones, flew overhead.
The professors, namely Dr. A.G. Oberg, Dr. W.L. Ducker, and Dr. W.I. Robinson, reported the incident to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, a local newspaper. After the newspaper published the news article, three more women reported to have seen unusual flashing lights on the same night that the professors saw the light formation. Another professor at Texas Technological College reported similar incident, as well as the head of journalism department of the said college.
Photos as Evidence: There are also photos to back the Lubbock Lights, too. Carl Hart Jr., a Texas Tech freshman, saw the lights on August 30, 1951 while he was looking out the window lying in bed. He took his camera, a Kodak 35-mm, and went to their backyard. Hart managed to take 5 photos of the lights before they disappeared. He later sold the photo to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal for $10, which are then reprinted by several other newspapers as well as Life Magazine.
The Hart photographs were later analyzed by the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base physics laboratory, which then released a statement that the photos were neither proven to be genuine nor a hoax.
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