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The Lubbock Lights (1951)
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In late August 1951 professors at Texas Tech University saw a V-shaped formation of blue-green lights cross the sky over Lubbock, Texas. Student Carl Hart Jr. photographed the phenomenon five times. The Air Force judged the photographs genuine without explaining them; a late hypothesis points to plovers lit by city lights, never confirmed.