Case file 171-The Lubbock Lights and Levelland UFO Cases

In 1952 The United States Air Force began to experience an unprecedented build-up of reports of sightings of unidentified aerial phenomenon. Project Blue Book had been tasked to investigate these sightings which included events like the Washington flap. These sightings had become such a large concern the Director of Central Intelligence, General Walter Bedell Smith, issued a memo voicing his worries these events could be seen as some kind of psychological warfare and perhaps begin a widespread panic. The year prior, even before Project Blue Book had been formed, The U.S. Air Force had already begun investigating these occurrences and...