Case
Directory - Category: 08; Photographic Evidence
Subject:
The Lubbock Lights/Carl Hart Photo Case
Date:
August 25, 1951
Location:
Lubbock, TX
Francis
Ridge:
Listed as item 11 under
photographic evidence in the Special
Evidence section of NICAP's UFO Evidence, is the Lubbock Texas Lights.
These photographs by Carl Hart, Jr.,
show a V-formation of large circular objects. Capt. Ruppelt, head
of Air Force Project Blue Book, reported that "In each photograph
the individual lights in the formation shifted position according
to a definite pattern." Main photograph reproduced in True,
May 1954.
Skeptics
have always
had
a field day with this one because it seemed to be only a set of
photographs, taken by a young, inexperienced photographer, of geese,
later
explained as moths. Little did anyone know that even the Air Force,
including the professors who also witnessed the overflights, did not
buy the explanations. In fact, it appears some people, alerted to UFO
activity, saw birds; others saw UFOs. And the most damning evidence
against birds, a professional photographer, with professional equipment
and better film, could not capture lighted bellies of geese. And that's
not all. A swept-back winged object was being seen around the country
during the period and two radars confirmed an unknown.
Captain
Edward Ruppelt:
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
times it was seen at the two places gave it a speed of roughly 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.
Fran
Ridge:
For 30 official documents related to this incident, go to
the NARA Project Blue Book Archive search engine listed below. Once there,
type in Lubbock Lights.<>
For
reports, documentation, analysis or discussions - see below: