tle better prepared. With the
initial shock worn off, they had time to get a better look. The
details they had remembered from the first flight checked. There was
one difference; in this flight the lights were not in any orderly
formation, they were just in a group.

The professors reasoned that if the UFO's appeared twice they might
come back. Come back they did. The next night and apparently many
times later, as the professors made twelve more observations during
the next few weeks. For these later sightings they added two more
people to their observing team.

Being methodical, as college professors are, they made every attempt
to get a good set of data. They measured the angle through which the
objects traveled and timed them. The several flights they checked
traveled through 90 degrees of sky in three seconds, or 30 degrees
per second. The lights usually suddenly appeared 45 degrees above the
northern horizon, and abruptly went out 45 degrees above the southern
horizon. They always traveled in this north-to-south direction.
Outside of the first flight, in which the objects were in a roughly
semicircular formation, in none of the rest of the flights did they
note any regular pattern. Two or three flights were often seen in one
night.

They had tried to measure the altitude, with no success. First they
tried to compare the lights to the height of clouds but the clouds
were never near the lights, or vice versa. Next they tried a more
elaborate scheme. They measured off a base line perpendicular to the
objects' usual flight path. Friends of the professors made up two
teams. Each of the two teams was equipped with elevation-measuring
devices, and one team was stationed at each end of the base line. The
two teams were linked together by two-way radios. If they sighted the
objects they would track and time them, thus getting the speed and
altitude.

Unfortunately neither team ever saw the lights. But the lights never
seemed to want to run the course. The wives of some of the watchers
claimed to have seen them from their homes in the city. This later
proved to be a clue.

The professors were not the sole observers of the mysterious lights.
For two weeks hundreds of other people for miles around Lubbock
reported that they saw the same lights. The professors checked many
of these reports against the times of the flights they had seen and
recorded, and many checked out close. They attempted to question
these observers