Lubbock Lights, Mass Sightings Over West Texas

Over several weeks in August and September 1951, thousands of residents across Lubbock, Texas observed V-shaped formations of lights passing overhead at high speed. Three Texas Tech professors observed the objects on multiple evenings, and a college student photographed the formations. Air Force investigators from Project Blue Book examined the case extensively. Blue Book director Edward Ruppelt later called it one of the most puzzling cases in the files, and the photographs were never conclusively explained.