Although the radar crew couldn't
pick it up on their sets they saw it visually. The lieutenant in
charge told investigators how it crossed from horizon to horizon in
45 seconds.

On March 9, several passengers on a New York to San Juan, Porto Rico
airliner were injured when the pilot pulled the big DC-6 up sharply
to miss a "large, greenish white, clearly circular-shaped object"
which was on a collision course with the plane. The pilots of several
other airliners in the same airway confirmed the sighting.

Two weeks later jet interceptors were scrambled over Los Angeles to
look for a UFO.

According to the records, the first report of the brilliant and
mysterious, flashing, red light came from a man in the east part of
Pasadena. But his report was quickly lost in the shuffle as more and
more calls began to come in. As the flashing light crossed the Los
Angeles Basin from southeast to northwest hundreds of people saw it.
Traffic was tied up on the Rose Parade famous Colorado Boulevard as
drivers stopped their cars to get out and look. As it neared the Air
Defense Command Filter Center in Pasadena the filter center
personnel, those that could be spared, went out and looked. They saw
it. Police switchboards lit up a solid red as it crossed the San
Gabriel Valley.

Near midnight a CAA radar picked up unidentified targets near the
Oxnard AFB, at Oxnard, California (northwest of Los Angeles), and at
almost that identical time people on the airbase saw the light

This did it, and two powerful jets, equipped with all weather radar,
came screaming into the area.

But it was the same old story--no contact--the UFO was gone.

The midwest was visited on the morning of May 23rd, when five
observers in Kansas City saw four silver, disc-shaped objects flying
in formation at extremely high speed. At one point during their
flight two of the objects broke formation and veered off but soon
rejoined. It took the objects only four minutes to cross the sky.

There were other reports during the first half of 1957, 250 of them
to be exact, and many could be classified as "good." But they were
nothing compared to those that were to come.

On November 3, 1957, a rash of sightings broke out in Texas and they
had a brand new twist. To do things up right the powers that guide
the UFO picked the town of Levelland only 27 miles west of Lubbock,
the home of the now traditional "Lubbock Lights."

It was with a tug of nostalgia that I read