The report went on to say that an investigation had been made immediately.  Since the object might have been a conventional airplane, air traffic was checked.  A commercial airlines Constellation was 50 miles west of Albuquerque and an Air Force B-25 was south of the city, but there had been nothing over Albuquerque that evening.  The man’s background was checked.  He had a “Q” security clearance.  This summed up his character, oddballs don’t get “Q” clearances.  No one else had reported the UFO, but this could be explained by the fact the AEC employee and his wife lived in such a location that anything passing over their home from north to south wouldn’t pass over or near very many other houses.  A sketch of the UFO was enclosed in the report.

I picked up the letter from Lubbock next.  It was a thick report, and from the photographs that were attached, it looked interesting.  I thumbed through it and stopped at the photos.  The first thing that struck me was the similarity between these photos and the report I’d just read.  They showed a series of lights in a V shape, very similar to those described as being on the aft edge of the “flying wing” that was reported from Albuquerque.  This was something unique, so I read the report in detail.

On the night of August 25, 1951, about 9:20P.M., just twenty minutes after the Albuquerque sighting, four college professors from Texas Technological College at Lubbock had observed a formation of soft, glowing, bluish-green lights pass over their home.  Several hours later they saw a similar group of lights and in the next two weeks they saw at least ten more.  On August 31 an amateur photographer had taken five photos of the lights.  Also on the thirty-first two ladies had seen a large “aluminum-colored,” “pear-shaped” object hovering near a road north of Lubbock.  The report went into the details of these sightings and enclosed a set of the photos that had been taken.

This report, in itself, was a good UFO report, but the similarity to the Albuquerque sighting, both in the description of the object and the time that it was seen, was truly amazing.

I almost overlooked the report from the radar station because it was fairly short.  It said that early on the morning of August 26, only a few hours after the Lubbock sighting, two different radars had shown a target traveling 900 miles per hour at 13,000 feet on a northwesterly heading.  The target had been observed for six minutes and an F-86 jet interceptor had been scrambled but by the time the F-86 had climbed into the air the target was gone.  The last paragraph in the report was rather curt and to the point.  It was apparently in anticipation of the comments the report would draw.  It said that the target was not caused by weather.  The officer in charge of the radar station and several members of his crew had been operating radar for seven years and they could recognize a weather target.  This target was real.