On August 25, 1951, a quiet summer night in Lubbock, Texas, several scientists from the Texas Technical College just started their weekly "Saturday Night Workshop" in the backyard of W.I. Robinson -- the only rule they widely discuss is not to talk about religion, politics or women. The theme of that day was micrometeorite . Attend the party were professor of chemical engineering A.G. Oberg, professor of physics George, and W.L. Duke, director of the Department of Petroleum Engineering. This particular gathering crowd made the story they witnessed that night even more curious.
US Air Force Captain Edward J. Rappert Later in his authoritative case book UFO Report, he wrote: "If a group is carefully selected to observe UFO, it is impossible for us to choose a group that is technically more qualified than this case."
Some unusual things
At around 9:20 pm, Du Ke suddenly jumped out of the chair and pointed to the sky frantically and shouted, "What the hell is that?" All three people noticed something unusual: a V-shaped structure composed of 15 to 30 blue-green lights swept through their heads at high speed.
Professors squeezed out their pipes and cigars and and turned their keen eyes to the clear night sky. With their well-trained scientific reasoning, they thought these lights would appear again. Sure enough, about an hour later, these light spots appeared in a more casual formation. These scientists agree: they witnessed an incredible thing—but what is that?
More witnesses
These professors were not the only credible witnesses of the mysterious blue and green light that night. At dusk, an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission's top secret Sandia company - a man with a "Q" senior security permit - sat outside with his wife. According to Rappert :
They stared at the night sky, praising how beautiful it was, and suddenly, a huge plane flew past their home quickly, scaring them both... There were six to eight pairs of soft, glittering blue lights at the tail edge of the wing.
According to a retired rancher from Lubbock, about an hour later, his wife saw something terrible in the night sky. Rappert is described as follows:
Just now, his wife went outdoors to get a few sheets on the clothesline. He reads the newspaper in the house. Suddenly, his wife rushed into the room... her face turned as white as the sheets she was holding.
The reason why his wife was so upset was that she saw a large object sweeping through the house quickly and silently. She said it looked like "an airplane without a fuselage." On the rear edge of the wing are two pairs of lights that glow blue.
In late September, when Rappert flew to Lubbock to investigate these sightings, hundreds of residents had seen these spots of light in two weeks.
Prof. Investigation by
But not everyone is waiting for the government to start investigating the matter. After alerting local newspapers such as the Lubok Avalanche Magazine, professors at Texas Tech began their own informal investigation. Within a few weeks after the first sight of the luminescent object on August 25, they and their friends saw it 12 more times. They measured the angles of these lights, roughly calculated their velocity, and noticed that they always moved from north to south. With the intercom, the scientists and detectives formed two groups with their friends to try to measure the height of these UFOs, but with little success.
Because they cannot measure the size and distance of the celestial bodies they see in the sky, the professors cannot determine the speed of the celestial bodies. The most accurate estimate they and others gave is that, given the arc and silence of the object, the light should be in the air 50,000 feet high. In this case, they guessed that the light spot formation was moving at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour.
Over time, more and more Lubbock residents claimed to see these lights.Many facts are consistent when professors cross-comparing these reports with what they themselves see and record. Of course, few people can record these phenomena in detail like professors.
However, although many observers provide incomplete or unclear memories, there is no doubt that what people see is real. Unlike most UFO sightings, which are usually one-time events, Lubbock's blue-green light has been observed several times by hundreds of people.
5 black and white photos
In addition, there is physical evidence for this incident: a freshman at Texas Tech University named Carl Hart took five black and white photos on August 31, 1951.
Carl Hart
According to Rappert's records:
It was a warm night, and his bed was pushed to an open window. After he lay in bed for about half an hour, he looked at the clear night sky outside and suddenly saw a light appearing in the north... passing through an open sky and disappearing above his house. Knowing that the lights might reappear like they used to, he picked up the loaded Kodak 35 camera, turned the lens and shutter to f 3.5 and a tenth of a second, and walked to the center of the backyard. Soon his vigil was rewarded and the light passed by for the second time. He has two photos. A few minutes later, the third formation passed and he took three more photos.
Interestingly, university professors suspected that Hart’s photo was some kind of fake, but the U.S. Air Force insisted this time that the photo was credible because on the same night, the wife and her daughter of an Air Force pilot claimed that they saw the UFO on the way northwest to Lubbock from Mattdo, Texas.
These controversial images show a group of dim light pads moving in the night sky in a V shape, the only visual feature of the sight hundreds of people claim they see.
is a flock of birds?
When Rappert began his formal investigation, he found that the blue-green lights affected everyone who saw them, including an old man from La Mesa, who he and his wife saw them. "He interrupted the story about light and began to tell his background as an Texas man, who had experienced the ranch war, Indian and public carriages," Rappert recalled their interview process. "What he wanted to point out is that despite the mountain wars, Indians and public carriages, he was still scared. His wife was also frightened."
The old man La Mesa once suggested that those lights were actually emitted by pilos, and this theory was affirmed by Rappert. But like many people Rappert interviewed, the old man admitted that he and his wife were looking for these spots of light after seeing reports about them in the newspaper. This is a common clue that connects many witnesses together.
in the report:
Interesting thing is that few people have claimed to have seen these lights before reading the stories taught in the paper. But that might go back to that old question, would people still look up if they had no reason to look up?
Captain Rappert's strange conclusion
So, what exactly did these people witness? In UFO Report, Rappert – who is said to be a respectable and impartial person who oversees the "golden age" of the official UFO investigation by the government – gives a strange explanation of avoidance:
I thought the light the professors were seeing might be the light of some kind of bird reflecting the mercury steam street light, but I was wrong. They are not birds, nor are they refracted light, but they are not spacecraft either. The light the professors see... is certainly considered a very common and easy-to-explain natural phenomenon...I can't reveal how the answer was found, because it's an interesting story about how scientists set up complete instruments to track light. By telling this story, you will know his identity, and in exchange, I promised to be completely anonymous.
Therefore, the mystery of Luberke's Light still seems to be unsolved."The Lubbock Light incident has been in the memories of many older people and has attracted researchers across the country to this day," said Monte L. Monroe, an archivist at the Southwest Collection of Texas Tech University in an interview with the Texas Highway Magazine. "When it comes to this, everyone has their own opinions. Some believe that the bright semicircle so-called "beads" pass through the sky at an extremely fast speed at the height of the stratosphere. Few agree with the theory of migratory bird belly under street lights proposed in the skeptic or Air Force report at the time."
According to Monroe, professors and other witnesses - tired of explaining themselves and what they saw - almost completely stopped interviews by the 1970s. More than four decades after that sighting, Carl Hart reportedly told writer and UFO researcher Kevin D. Randall in a rare informal interview that he still didn't know what he had photographed on that pleasant August night many months ago. But, like hundreds of witnesses around Luberke, he saw things he would never forget in that strange summer in Texas.
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