The professors weren’t the only credible witnesses to the mysterious blue-green lights that night. The scientists were all in agreement: They had witnessed something fantastic-but what was it? And they did, about an hour later, in a more haphazard formation. Stunned, but still using their trained scientific reasoning, they figured the lights would reappear. Sightings of the blue-green lights kept growingĪround 9:20 p.m., the university colleagues saw something otherworldly in the expansive Texas sky: a V-shaped formation of 15 to 30 blueish-green lights passing overhead. In the early 1950s Ruppelt served as lead investigator for Project Blue Book, the official Air Force investigations into UFO sightings, after working on its precursor effort, Project Grudge. Ruppelt later in his definitive 1956 casebook, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. “If a group had been hand-picked to observe a UFO, we couldn’t have picked a more technically qualified group of people,” wrote U.S. Which made the story of what they witnessed that night all the more curious. Ducker, head of the petroleum-engineering department. It was quite the brain trust: chemical engineering professor Dr.
Robinson, drinking tea and chatting about micrometeorites. That evening, a handful of scientists from Texas Technical College were hanging out in the backyard of geology professor Dr. But like hundreds of others witnesses in and around Lubbock, he saw something he would never forget.Īugwas a quiet summer night in Lubbock, Texas. said he still had no idea what he had photographed that August night. Over 40 years later, in a rare interview, Carl Hart, Jr. They are the only images caught of what hundreds were claiming they saw. He managed to take five photos of the V-shaped lights, or flying wing with lights. He went out to his yard with a camera and took photos of them (image above) as they again passed overhead. was looking out for the infamous lights when he saw them come.
In the weeks after their initial sighting, they all saw the lights a dozen more times.