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Lubbock Lights, Lubbock, Texas, August–September 1951

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In late August and early September 1951, residents of Lubbock, Texas reported repeated sightings of a semicircular or V-shaped formation of soft bluish-green glowing lights passing silently overhead…

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Lubbock, Texas, 1951 — a silent crescent of pale blue-green orbs tears across the night sky.

August 25, 1951 — Lubbock, a quiet college town on the flat West Texas plain.

Four Texas Tech professors on a residential porch watched two formations arc silently overhead in seconds.

August 31 — the tight crescent of glowing orbs blazed north again, silent and perfect.

Project Blue Book analysts spread Hart's five photographs across a light table — no retouching found.

Carl Hart Jr. lowered his camera as the glowing orbs vanished north forever.

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