Part 14 (2/2)

I almost overlooked the report from the radar station because it was fairly short It said that early on the hting, two different radars had shown a target traveling 900The target had been observed for six minutes and an F-86 jet interceptor had been scrambled but by the tione The last paragraph in the report was rather curt and to the point It was apparently in anticipation of the coet was not caused by weather The officer in charge of the radar station and severalradar for seven years and they could recognize a weather target This target was real

I quickly took out a map of the United States and drew in a course line between Lubbock and the radar station A UFO flying between these two points would be on a northwesterly heading and the tihly 900 miles per hour

This was by far the best combination of UFO reports I'd ever read and I'd read every one in the Air Force's files

The first thing I did after reading the reports was to rush a set of the Lubbock photos to the intelligence officer of the 34th Air Division in Albuquerque I asked him to show the photos to the AEC e them what they were I requested an answer by wire Later the next day I received my answer: ”Observers iht of 25 August Details by airmail” The details were a sketch thearound the photo of the Lubbock Lights The nuhts the two observers had seen on the wing didn't tally, but they explained this by saying that they could have been wrong in their estimate

The next day I flew to Lubbock to see if I could find an answer to all of these s

I arrived in Lubbock about 5:00PM and contacted the intelligence officer at Reese AFB He knew that I was onwith the four professors Right after dinner we roup had been hand-picked to observe a UFO, we couldn't have picked a roup of people They were:

Dr W I Robinson, Professor of Geology

Dr A G Oberg, Professor of Che

Professor W L Ducker, Head of the Petroleue, Professor of Physics

This is their story:

On the evening of August 25 the fourin Dr

Robinson's back yard They were discussing ly stressed this point At nine-twenty a forhts streaked across the sky directly over their heads It all happened so fast that none of theood look One of the men mentioned that he had always ad more observant; noas in that spot

He and his colleagues realized they could rehts were a weird bluish-green color and they were in a semicircular formation They estihts and that they werefrohts would reappear They did; about an hour later the lights went over again

This time the professors were a little better prepared With the initial shock worn off, they had tiet a better look The details they had reht checked There was one difference; in this flight the lights were not in any orderly forroup

The professors reasoned that if the UFO's appeared twice they ht and apparently many times later, as the professorsthe next feeeks For these later sightings they added twoe professors are, they ood set of data They h which the objects traveled and tih 90 degrees of sky in three seconds, or 30 degrees per second The lights usually suddenly appeared 45 degrees above the northern horizon, and abruptly went out 45 degrees above the southern horizon They always traveled in this north-to-south direction

Outside of the first flight, in which the objects were in a roughly sehts did they note any regular pattern Two or three flights were often seen in one night

They had tried to measure the altitude, with no success First they tried to coht of clouds but the clouds were never near the lights, or vice versa Next they tried a more elaborate scheme They measured off a base line perpendicular to the objects' usual flight path Friends of the professors made up two teams Each of the two tea devices, and one team was stationed at each end of the base line The two teahted the objects they would track and ti the speed and altitude

Unfortunately neither teahts never seemed to want to run the course The wives of some of the watchers claimed to have seen them from their homes in the city This later proved to be a clue

The professors were not the sole observers of the hts

For teeks hundreds of other people for hts The professors checked hts they had seen and recorded, and many checked out close They atteth of tiles at which they had seen them, but the professors learned what I already knew, people are poor observers

Naturally there has beenthe professors and their friends as to the nature of the lights A few sihts were very high they would be traveling very fast The possibility that they were some natural phenomena was, of course, discussed and seriously considered The professors did a lot of thinking and research and decided that if they were natural phenoe, who has since died, studied the pheno his years as a professor at the University of Alaska, and he had never seen or heard of anything like this before

This was the professors' story It was early in thee returned to Reese AFB I sat up a few ure out what they had seen

The next day I again ence officer and ent to talk to Carl Hart, Jr, the ahts Hart was a freshust 31 he was lying in his bed in an upstairs room of the Hart hohts but he had never seen theht and his bed was pushed over next to an openHe was looking out at the clear night sky, and had been in bed about a half hour, when he saw a forhts appear in the north, cross an open patch of sky, and disappear over his house Knowing that the lights rabbed his loaded Kodak 35, set the lens and shutter at f 35 and one tenth of a second, and went out into the middle of the back yard