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Lubbock Lights

DATE25 Aug 1951
LOCAL TIME9:20 PM
LOCATIONLubbock, Texas, USA, United States
COORDINATES33.57°N, 101.86°W

Four Texas Tech professors saw a V-shaped formation of 15-30 bluish-green lights pass rapidly overhead in Lubbock, Texas. The lights returned multiple times over subsequent weeks. On August 30, Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart Jr. photographed the formations, gaining national attention.

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Photographic / visual media record