ights had appeared to be so dim that he was sure he
didn't have anything on the negatives; had he thought that he did
have some good pictures he would have awakened his friend to develop
the negatives right away.

When he developed the negatives and saw that they showed an image,
his friend suggested that he call the newspaper. At first the paper
wasn't interested but then they decided to run the photos. I later
found out that they had done some checking of their own.

We went with Hart into his back yard to re-enact what had taken
place. He described the lights as being the same dull, glowing bluish-
green color as those seen by the professors. The formation was
different, however. The lights Hart saw were always flying in a
perfect V. He traced the path from where they appeared over some
trees in the north, through an open patch of sky over the back yard,
to a point where they disappeared over the house. From the flight
path he pointed out, the lights had crossed about 120 degrees of open
sky in four seconds. This 30-degree-per-second angular velocity
corresponded to the professors' measured angular velocity.

We made arrangements to borrow Hart's negatives, thanked him for his
information, and left.

Armed with a list of names of other observers of the mysterious
lights, the intelligence officer and I started out to try to get a
cross-section account of the other UFO sightings in the Lubbock area.
All the stories about the UFO's were the same; various types of
formations of dull bluish-green lights, generally moving north to
south. A few people had variations. One lady saw a flying Venetian
blind and another a flying double boiler. One point of interest was
that very few claimed to have seen the lights before reading the
professors' story in the paper, but this could get back to the old
question, "Do people look up if they have no reason to do so?"

We talked to observers in nearby towns. Their stories were the same.
Two of them, tower operators at an airport, reported that they had
seen the lights on several occasions.

It was in one of these outlying towns, Lamesa, that we talked to an
old gentleman, about eighty years old, who gave us a good lead. He
had seen the lights and he had identified them. Ever since he had
read the story in the papers he had been looking. One evening he and
his wife were in their yard looking for the lights. All of a sudden
two or three appeared. They were in view for several secon