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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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