One of the World’s Most Credible UFO Sightings Happened in Texas

Project Blue Book

In 1947, the U.S. Air Force created an agency focused on investigating reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Its creation coincided with the supposed space wreckage reported in Roswell, New Mexico.

From 1947 to 1969, over 12,600 UFO sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. Of those, 701 remained unidentified or unexplained.

It Wasn't a UFO, It Was...

Government officials have provided many explanations of what that UFO really was. In Roswell, an experimental rubber/metallic balloon intended to detect Russian nuclear activity was offered as the 'space debris' found in the field.

Weather balloons, experimental aircraft, and atmospheric anomalies have been used numerous times to counter the idea of aliens from another planet taking a closer look at Earth.

In 1951, dozens of reports of blue-green lights in a v-formation were reported over the skies of Lubbock, Texas. It's one of the earliest UFO reports that included photos showing the UFOs.

However, officials eventually offered to say that the UFOs were migrating birds reflecting streetlights.

Hmm...sounds like some type of explanation the Men in Black would give.

Levelland, Texas - 1957

Drive west from Lubbock and you'll pass through the town of Levelland, Texas.

In early November 1957, over a dozen people called into the local police department to report strange lights and eerie incidents.

The similarity of those reports has given credibility to this UFO event. Witnesses said that they saw a rocket-shaped device with blue lights. It was hot, loud, and created a gush of wind.

Several folks who were driving said their vehicles stalled and would not crank. When the UFO flew away, their vehicles started just fine. The local sheriff and fire chief also reported seeing the UFO.

The Project Blue Book investigator assigned to this incident concluded that the UFO sightings were the result of 'ball lightning'.

The Mystery Continues

Even though authorities with Project Blue Book count the Levelland event as one of the nearly 12,000 cases that they could scientifically explain, many witnesses as well as UFO researchers have never bought into the ball lightning theory.