(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO paper:
“Date: Thursday, 3 January 2013
Up until 1957, the American view of UFOs was
basically that of a phenomenon of lights in the sky observed by inexperienced
witnesses.
Not all intelligence people were that calm about
it, but concentrating on defense and the Soviets, made it easier to ignore it.
But in early November the UFOs brought about a series of close encounters never
before seen in the United
States , providing another major stress that
the military did not need. The minority group at Wright-Patterson AFB and the
Pentagon, the UFO debunkers, would have to handle that matter on their own.
They had Soviet Sputniks and ICBMs on their minds.
Project Blue Book received 1,006 reports of UFO
sightings in 1957. This was the third highest UFO sighting year in the 1947
through 1969 time period of official Air Force investigations. The year of 1957
was highlighted by the Levelland, Texas
sightings which occurred in November.
Out of 529 *U* Database listings for 1957, 208 were in November and 323 in North
America . The busiest days 5 and 6 November (67 total listings)
coincided exactly with the Taurids meteor shower. This is the only major wave
to do so but if one looks at the data there is no direct connection, only a
coincidence. The three busiest states were California
(41), Texas (37) and New Mexico (33).
The most striking feature of this sighting wave was the concentration of
‘electromagnetic effect’ cases around the west Texas
town of Levelland .
There were at least eight such reports in the space of 2.5 hours in an area to
the west, north and east of Levelland. Project Blue Book sent a single
investigator to Levelland to check the reports. His explanation, accepted as
the official Air Force conclusion, was that: ‘... the major cause for the
Levelland case was a severe electrical storm. The storm stimulated the populace
into a high level of excitement. This excitement reflected itself in their
reactions to ordinary circumstances, and resulted in the inflation of the
stories of some of the witnesses concerning their experiences.’ Ten years after
these incidents, atmospheric physicist Dr. James McDonald completed a study and
determined that there had been no storm in the area, and thus no source of
excessive moisture to interfere with the automobiles' electrical systems. With
no ‘severe electrical storm’ to ‘stimulate the populace into a high level of
excitement,’ the official explanation falls apart.
Coordinator,
The Nuclear Connection Project”
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