I quickly took out a map of the United States and drew in a course line between Lubbock and the radar station.  A UFO flying between these two points would be on a northwesterly heading and the times it was seen at the two places gave it a speed of roughly 900 miles per hour.

This was by far the best combination of UFO reports I’d ever read and I’d read every one in the Air Force’s files.

The first thing I did after reading the reports was to rush a set of the Lubbock photos to the intelligence officer of the 34th Air Division in Albuquerque.  I asked him to show the photos to the AEC employee and his wife without telling them what they were.  I requested an answer by wire.  Later the next day I received my answer:  “Observers immediately said that this is what they saw on the night of 25 August.  Details by airmail.”  The details were a sketch the man and his wife had made of a wing around the photo of the Lubbock Lights.  The number of lights in the photo and the number of lights the two observers had seen on the wing didn’t tally, but they explained this by saying that they could have been wrong in their estimate.

The next day I flew to Lubbock to see if I could find an answer to all of these mysterious happenings.

I arrived in Lubbock about 5:00P.M. and contacted the intelligence officer at Reese AFB.  He knew that I was on my way and had already set up a meeting with the four professors.  Right after dinner we met them.

If a group had been hand-picked to observe a UFO, we couldn’t have picked a more technically qualified group of people.  They were: 

Dr. W. I. Robinson, Professor of Geology.

Dr. A. G. Oberg, Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Professor W. L. Ducker, Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department.

Dr. George, Professor of Physics.

This is their story: 

On the evening of August 25 the four men were sitting in Dr. Robinson’s back yard.  They were discussing micrometeorites and drinking tea.  They jokingly stressed this point.  At nine-twenty a formation of lights streaked across the sky directly over their heads.  It all happened so fast that none of them had a chance to get a good look.  One of the men mentioned that he had always admonished his students for not being more observant; now he was in that spot.  He and his colleagues realized they could remember only a few details of what they had seen.  The lights were a weird bluish-green color and they were in a semicircular formation.  They estimated that there were from fifteen to thirty separate lights and that they were moving from north to south.  Their one wish at this time was that the lights would reappear.  They did; about an hour later the lights went over again.  This time the professors were a little 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.