Editor's Note: I have recently been in contact with a person who read the article I did on a famous series of ufo sightings which have come to be known as The Lubbock Lights ufo sightings. The sightings occurred in 1951 and are perhaps most well known for a series of 5 or 6 famous photo's that were taken at the time. However the lights were first witnessed not in 1951, but rather in 1947. The person who read my article is that witness, and has written an account of his experience which he has graciously given me to reproduce on this site. This type of interaction is what I love about my web site, it makes everything feel so worth-while. He has asked to remain anonomous, however can be contacted via this web site by anyone who is seriously interested in the subject. Here is his e-mail to me. |
The Lubbock Lights |
Eyewitness Spotted Lights 4 Years Before The Lubbock Sightings |
Editor's Note: I have recently been in contact with a person who read the article I did on a famous series of ufo sightings which have come to be known as The Lubbock Lights ufo sightings. The sightings occurred in 1951 and are perhaps most well known for a series of 5 or 6 famous photo's that were taken at the time. However the lights were first witnessed not in 1951, but rather in 1947. The person who read my article is that witness, and has written an account of his experience which he has graciously given me to reproduce on this site. This type of interaction is what I love about my web site, it makes everything feel so worth-while. He has asked to remain anonomous, however can be contacted via this web site by anyone who is seriously interested in the subject. Here is his e-mail to me. |
Just picked up your website while surfing the web on the topic of Lubbock Lights. I noted with interest that articles refer to the "first" sightings in 1951. In 1947 I was in the 6th grade and two of my classmates asked our teacher what those lights were that they had seen moving in a V formation the previous evening. She said they had to be geese, but these two classmates were emphatic that they were not. She had no answers, and the inquiry was left as a rhetorical question. One evening (9 or 10 PM) a few months later I was feeding my two dogs on the back patio of my home when my peripheral vision detected movement in the sky. I looked up and saw the lights in V formation. It was a perfect V with perhaps 5-7 lights along each line of the V. The lights were all the same size and in single file, unlike some of the photos being shown, and each light was a bit larger than the full moon, but much dimmer. They were perfectly circular, and they moved rapidly and silently. Geese never form a perfect V, are never perfectly round, are never silent (usually they are first detected by their honking), and their movement is relatively slow. These lights moved rapidly from NW to SE. Although I first spotted them at about the apogee point, they crossed the sky in a matter of only about 3 or 4 seconds. The event was a surprise in itself, but I was in store for another surprise. Even though there was much horizon left for their movement, they totally disappeared at an elevation of about 30 degrees or so. It was as if a light switch had been flicked off. All of this occurred in the town of Dickinson, TX. |
