Levelland sightings
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Official document · primary record
Project Blue Book file, Levelland, November 1957
Teletype report from the Air Force case file on the Levelland sightings of 2–3 November 1957, which Blue Book attributed to ball lightning. Declassified document scan.
Project Blue Book · 1957 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗On the night of 2–3 November 1957 at least fifteen people around Levelland, Texas reported a glowing egg- or cigar-shaped object near the road that made their car engines and lights fail until it left. Sheriff Weir Clem saw a red light. Project Blue Book attributed the reports to ball lightning. The corpus does not discuss the case.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 33.5873, -102.3780 approximate · United States |
| Official response | Project Blue Book sent one investigator for a day and concluded the sightings were caused by ball lightning during a thunderstorm; critics note there was no storm reported at Levelland that night. |
Reported by
- pedro saucedo witness farm worker, first caller
- weir clem law-enforcement Hockley County sheriff
Investigated by
- project blue book military
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