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Today In History - The Levelland, Tx Wave
November 2-3, 1957
1/12:05 a.m. Texas Tech college student Newell H. Wright is driving west one mile west of Smyer, Texas, when the ammeter gauge on his car dashboard starts fluctuating widely. The car
2/motor gradually goes out then the headlights and radio die. He gets out to check and sees a white or aluminum-colored, oval-shaped object flat on the bottom like a loaf of bread, with a bluish-green tint, about 75–125 feet long. After a few minutes, the object suddenly rises up
3/ from the road ahead and ascends almost vertically at great speed slightly to the north, disappearing in seconds. Afterward the car can start again. [Eberhart]
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This is just one example of the sightings that occurred during this time period. More in images.
Sources:
"No Saucers In Reports UFOs Seen". Montreal Gazette. November 16, 1957.
A. Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight line Mystery. p. 235-237.
Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, pp.ll4-17.
J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 141-147;
Sources cont.:
C. Maney and R. Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flyrng Objects,pp72-75;
“Did the Air Force Deceive the Public About the November Sightings?” The U.F.O. Investigator 1, no. 3 (January 1958): 1, 3–9;
Sources cont.:
Davies, Paul C.W. “The Ball Lightning Enigma; Can It Explain Many UFOs?” Second Look 1, no. 12 (October 1979): 19–22.
"The Levelland Case" (The New Mexico Story), APRO Bulletin Nov. 1957, Pg.1,3-9;
NICAP, The UFO Evidence, pg.163-4,168;
Sources cont.:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns File, pg.253 #1260 & pg.254 #1261;
"Levelland, TEXAS: November 2-3, 1957", Walter Webb, NICAP Special Report 1957;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encylopedia 3rdEd, pg.683–684;
David Jacobs, The UFO Controversy In America, pg.134-137;
Sources cont.:
UFOs and Flying Saucers Issue #1 The Levelland Panic
Well, this thread posted before I was done typing. Stupid twitter.
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Source Cont:
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The Author, 1997, p. 1-13;
The Levelland Sightings / Saucedo
Nov. 2, 1957
Levelland, Texas
nicap.org/571102levellan…
Oval-Shaped Object & EME On Ammeter [Newell Wright sighting]
Nov. 3, 1957
Levelland, Texas
nicap.org/571103levellan…
“Levelland 1957,” Texas UFO Museum & Research Library, March 15, 2002;
roswellbooks.com/museum/?page_i…
Rullán, Antonio. The Levelland Sightings of 1957: Analysis
of the Evidence and Evaluation of the Ball Lightning
Hypothesis, self-published monograph, 1999.
web.archive.org/web/2007031201…
The Southwestern UFO Wave oF 1957
by Antonio F. Rullán
cufos.org/pdfs/rullan.pdf
Patrick Gross's page for "Levelland, Texas, USA, 1957"
ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/levelland5…
Kevin Randle's Blog "The Levelland UFO Sightings"
[He recently published a book on Levelland]
kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/08/levell…
THE UFO BRIEFING DOCUMENT
CASE HISTORIES
1957: THIRD AMERICAN SIGHTING WAVE
bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ufo_br…
The Tex Files: Levelland UFOs
web.archive.org/web/2013042700…
Cars stalled during UFO encounters in Levelland, Texas, November 2-3, 1957
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelland…
"One famous case, was at Levelland, Tex., in 1957. Ten vehicles were stopped within a short area, all independently in a 2-hour period, near Levelland, Tex. There was no lightning or thunder storm, and only a trace of rain."
files.ncas.org/ufosymposium/m…
Over 100 combined pages from CUFOS:
cufos.org/cases/1957_11_…
cufos.org/cases/1957_11_…
A.Schopick, A Study Of Secondary Effects, Summer 1966, pg.26-36;

cufos.org/books/A_Study_…
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Today in UFO History - Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident
August 13–14, 1956 — RAF Bentwaters-Lakenheath, England
1/9:30 p.m. A radar-visual UFO sighting begins at RAF Bentwaters [now Bentwaters Parks], Suffolk, England. A blip traveling approximately 4,000– Image
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Today in UFO History - Pre-Arnold - Disk Seen By Navy Vet and Railway Workers
May 19, 1947 — Manitou Springs, Colorado
1/Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran Dean A. Hauser and six other Pike’s Peak Railway workers (including Ted Weigand, Marion Hisshouse, Image
2/T. J. Smith, L. D. Jamison) at Manitou Springs, Colorado, are taking a lunch break when they watch a silver object come in from the northwest, hover overhead, and gyrate at 1,000 feet. The UFO is moving “erratically in wide circles” and reflects light like it is made of metal. Image
3/After 20 minutes it disappears in a straight line to the west-northwest. [Eberhart]

Sources:
“Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’ Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1;
Denver Post, June 29, 1947, p. 6;
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Today in UFO History - JANAP 146(C) Issued
March 10, 1954 —
1/JANAP 146 (C), “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft and Waterborne Sources.” This directive allows waterborne sources for CIRVIS and adds MERINT
2/ reports. Civilian pilots must also report UFOs to the Air Force and refrain from talking about it. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 283;
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Communications–Electronics Committee, “JANAP 146(C) Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Airborne and Waterborne Sources,” March 10, 1954;
cufon.org/cufon/janp146c…
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Today in Aviation History - First Jet Aircraft To Exceed 1,000 mph in Level Flight.
March 10, 1956 —
British pilot Peter Twiss reaches an official airspeed of 1,132 mph in a Fairey Delta 2 over Chichester, England.
Source:
Newsweek (US Edition) 1956-03-26: Vol 47 Iss 13, Page 45;
"Getting the Record". Flight Magazine. Flight Global. 23 March 1956.
[Internet Archive only seemed to mirror the first page of this article]
web.archive.org/web/2012110217…
Wikipedia, “Peter Twiss”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Twi…
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2/covered with a net made of some plastic-like material, and that inside the pen is a helmeted being, 3.5 ft tall, who is engaged in killing her sheep using a tubular instrument with a hook on the end. Flores throws stones at the being, whereupon he walks over to an instrument
3/resembling a radio and, moving a wheel on it, quickly absorbs all the netting. The woman approaches the pen with a cudgel, upon which the being throws its instrument at her several times; it returns to him like a boomerang, after it inflicts superficial cuts on her arms. The
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