ar, near pinpoint sources of
light. Like a bright star, or a distant light bulb. Next they made
enlargements from the negatives and carefully plotted the position of
each light in the formation.

In each photograph the individual lights in the formation shifted
position according to a definite pattern.

One additional factor that was brought out in the report was that
although the photos were taken on a clear night no images of the
stars could be found in the background. This proved one thing, the
lights, which were overexposed in the photograph, were a great deal
brighter than the stars, or the lights affected the film more than
the light from the stars.

This was all that the photos showed. It was impossible to determine
the size of each image of the group, speed, or altitude.

The next thing was to try to duplicate what Hart said he had done. I
enlisted the aid of several friends and we tried to photograph a
moving light. When we were talking to Hart in Lubbock, he had taken
us to his back yard, where he had shot the pictures. He had traced
the flight path of fights across the sky. We had him estimate the
speed by following an imaginary flight of lights across the sky. It
came out to about four seconds. We had a camera identical to the one
that Hart had used and set up a light to move at the same speed as
the UFO's had flown. We tried to take photographs. In four seconds we
could get only two poor shots. These were badly blurred, much worse
than Hart's, due to the one-tenth-of-a-second shutter speed. We
repeated our experiment several times, each time with the same
results. This made a lot of people doubt the authenticity of Hart's
photos.

With the completed photo lab report in my hands, I was still without
an answer. The report was interesting but didn't prove anything. All
I could do was to get opinions from as qualified sources as I could
find. A physiologist at the Aeromedical Laboratory knocked out the
timing theory immediately by saying that if Hart had been excited he
could have easily taken three photos in four seconds if we could get
two in four seconds in our experiment. Several professional
photographers, one of them a top _Life_ photographer, said that if
Hart was familiar with his camera and was familiar with panning
action shots, his photos would have shown much less blur than ours. I
recalled what I heard about Hart's having photographed sporting
events for the Lubbock newspaper. This would hav