On November 2nd and 3rd police in Levelland, Texas started to receiving call after call from concerned citizens. These reports were of strange lights and a large cigar shaped UFO. The story began when two immigrant workers called the police saying that they had been driving 4 miles west of Levelland when they saw a tremendous blue flash of light. The truck suddenly shut off and rolled to a stop and they saw a strange rocket shaped object rise up. Here is their statements from Wikipedia:
"According to Saucedo, "I jumped out of the truck and hit the dirt because I was afraid. I called to Joe but he didn't get out. The thing passed directly over my truck with a great sound and rush of wind. It sounded like thunder and my truck rocked from the flash...I felt a lot of heat."[4] As the object moved away the truck's engine restarted and worked normally. Believing the story to be a joke, Fowler ignored it.[5] An hour later, motorist Jim Wheeler reported a "brilliantly lit, egg-shaped object, about 200 feet long" was sitting in the road, four miles (6 km) east of Levelland, blocking his path. He claimed his vehicle died and as he got out of his car the object took off and its lights went out. As it moved away, Wheeler's car restarted and worked normally."
That wasn't the only call in fact the police station had 15 more calls all of which reported strange lights and having radios, cars or other electronic devises stop working. here's the rest of the reports and the subsequent police investigation again from wiki:
"At 10:55 pm a married couple driving northeast of Levelland reported that they saw a bright flash of light moving across the sky and their headlights and radio died for three seconds. Five minutes later Jose Alvarez claimed he met the strange object sitting on the road 11 miles (18 km) north of Levelland, and his vehicle's engine died until the object departed.[7] At 12:05 am (November 3), a Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) student named Newell Wright was surprised when, driving 10 miles (16 km) east of Levelland, his "car engine began to sputter, the ammeter on the dash jumped to discharge and then back to normal, and the motor started cutting out like it was out of gas...the car rolled to a stop; then the headlights dimmed and several seconds later went out."[8] When he got out to check on the problem, he saw a "100-foot-long" egg-shaped object sitting in the road. It took off, and his engine started running again. At 12:15 am Officer Fowler received another call, this time from a farmer named Frank Williams who claimed he had encountered a brightly glowing object sitting in the road, and "as his car approached it, its lights went out and its motor stopped." The object flew away, and his car's lights and motor started working again.[9] Other callers were Ronald Martin at 12:45 am and James Long at 1:15 am, and they both reported seeing a brightly lit object sitting in the road in front of them, and they also claimed that their engines and headlights died until the object flew away
By this time, several Levelland police officers were actively investigating the incident. Among them was Sheriff Weir Clem, who saw a brilliant red object moving across the sky at 1:30 am. At 1:45 am Levelland's Fire Chief, Ray Jones, also saw the object and his vehicle's lights and engine sputtered. The sightings apparently ended soon after this incident.[11] During the night of November 2–3, the Levelland police department received a total of 15 phone calls concerning the strange object, and Officer Fowler noted that "everybody who called was very excited"
The Air Force even did an investigation and sent in their "project blue book" team. They interviewed three witnesses and after discovering that there were thunder storms in the are that night, they concluded that the incident was ball lightning. To me this a little bit silly. Why not interview all of the witnesses? Why did they conclude it was ball lightning even though witnesses described a solid object? Would ball lightning shut down electronics?
I think a likely answer would be that the Air Force could be covering up secret weapons testing. It was at the height of the Cold War and the military could have been conducting experiments with some kind of EMP device. Or it could have been aliens...
The incident was widely reported in the media here's a couple videos from youtube highlighting some of the coverage.
"According to Saucedo, "I jumped out of the truck and hit the dirt because I was afraid. I called to Joe but he didn't get out. The thing passed directly over my truck with a great sound and rush of wind. It sounded like thunder and my truck rocked from the flash...I felt a lot of heat."[4] As the object moved away the truck's engine restarted and worked normally. Believing the story to be a joke, Fowler ignored it.[5] An hour later, motorist Jim Wheeler reported a "brilliantly lit, egg-shaped object, about 200 feet long" was sitting in the road, four miles (6 km) east of Levelland, blocking his path. He claimed his vehicle died and as he got out of his car the object took off and its lights went out. As it moved away, Wheeler's car restarted and worked normally."
That wasn't the only call in fact the police station had 15 more calls all of which reported strange lights and having radios, cars or other electronic devises stop working. here's the rest of the reports and the subsequent police investigation again from wiki:
"At 10:55 pm a married couple driving northeast of Levelland reported that they saw a bright flash of light moving across the sky and their headlights and radio died for three seconds. Five minutes later Jose Alvarez claimed he met the strange object sitting on the road 11 miles (18 km) north of Levelland, and his vehicle's engine died until the object departed.[7] At 12:05 am (November 3), a Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) student named Newell Wright was surprised when, driving 10 miles (16 km) east of Levelland, his "car engine began to sputter, the ammeter on the dash jumped to discharge and then back to normal, and the motor started cutting out like it was out of gas...the car rolled to a stop; then the headlights dimmed and several seconds later went out."[8] When he got out to check on the problem, he saw a "100-foot-long" egg-shaped object sitting in the road. It took off, and his engine started running again. At 12:15 am Officer Fowler received another call, this time from a farmer named Frank Williams who claimed he had encountered a brightly glowing object sitting in the road, and "as his car approached it, its lights went out and its motor stopped." The object flew away, and his car's lights and motor started working again.[9] Other callers were Ronald Martin at 12:45 am and James Long at 1:15 am, and they both reported seeing a brightly lit object sitting in the road in front of them, and they also claimed that their engines and headlights died until the object flew away
By this time, several Levelland police officers were actively investigating the incident. Among them was Sheriff Weir Clem, who saw a brilliant red object moving across the sky at 1:30 am. At 1:45 am Levelland's Fire Chief, Ray Jones, also saw the object and his vehicle's lights and engine sputtered. The sightings apparently ended soon after this incident.[11] During the night of November 2–3, the Levelland police department received a total of 15 phone calls concerning the strange object, and Officer Fowler noted that "everybody who called was very excited"
The Air Force even did an investigation and sent in their "project blue book" team. They interviewed three witnesses and after discovering that there were thunder storms in the are that night, they concluded that the incident was ball lightning. To me this a little bit silly. Why not interview all of the witnesses? Why did they conclude it was ball lightning even though witnesses described a solid object? Would ball lightning shut down electronics?
I think a likely answer would be that the Air Force could be covering up secret weapons testing. It was at the height of the Cold War and the military could have been conducting experiments with some kind of EMP device. Or it could have been aliens...
The incident was widely reported in the media here's a couple videos from youtube highlighting some of the coverage.
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