In 1951 five Texas Tech professors watched 18-30 lights fly over Lubbock at 600+ mph. Project Blue Book spent years on it, called it UNKNOWN, and never closed the case.
In 1951 five Texas Tech professors watched 18-30 lights fly over Lubbock at 600+ mph. Project Blue Book spent years on it, called it UNKNOWN, and never closed the case.
In 1951 five Texas Tech professors watched 18-30 lights fly over Lubbock at 600+ mph. Project Blue Book spent years on it, called it UNKNOWN, and never closed the case. The Lubbock Lights is one of the most documented and least discussed cases in Project Blue Book. August 25, 1951. Five university professors from Texas Tech are sitting in a backyard in Lubbock, Texas. Without warning, 18-30 greenish-blue fluorescent lights pass overhead in formation. They immediately rule out meteors. The objects make multiple passes over the same location. The witnesses are not random civilians. They are a chemical engineer, a petroleum engineer and department head, a geologist, a mathematics professor, and a German professor. They calculate the objects traveling at over 600 mph at approximately 2,000 feet altitude. For comparison, the fastest birds in level flight do about 50 mph. On August 30, a Texas Tech freshman named Carl Hart Jr. photographs 18-20 of the lights in V-formation with a 35mm camera. The photographs are sent to Wright-Patterson AFB physics laboratory for analysis. The official conclusion after full military scrutiny: "The photos were never proven to be a hoax, but neither were they proven to be genuine." Here's where it gets strange. The professors explicitly stated Hart's photographs did NOT match what they observed. They saw U-formations. Hart photographed V-formations. They described greenish-blue fluorescent objects. Hart's black and white photos show white point sources. The Air Force's official explanation was plovers reflecting newly installed vapor street lights. The professors rejected this explanation. Plovers fly at 40-50 mph. The objects the professors calculated were traveling at 600+ mph. The "fluorescent" quality described by witnesses is inconsistent with passive reflection from bird undersides. Project Blue Book supervisor Edward Ruppelt personally traveled to Lubbock to investigate. He interviewed witnesses and analyzed the photographs. The official case classification when Blue Book closed: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS. The case file is public. The original Blue Book documents are on Archive.org. The photographs exist. The witnesses were credible academics with reputations at stake. 75 years later nobody has explained it. We are currently running a community investigation on this case if anyone wants to join and dig into it together: casefiles.space/investigations/10 Dossier: casefiles.space/cases/the-lubbock-lights-multiple-witnesses-and-photographic-evidence submitted by /u/mingekko [link] [comments]