One Week In November.

karl 12

Noble
Already some historical discussion on the forum regarding the Levelland UFO flap but thought this presentation by Preston Dennett did a great job of exploring just how many sightings there actually were (and just how far afield the reports came in).

Preston also explores other close range eyewitness descriptions during that week (and the resulting EM effects) and really would be interested in opinions on the vid.




One Week In November:







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In the first week of November 1957, a series of dramatic and unusual UFO events occurred which caused great concern at the highest levels of government and changed the way many people viewed the UFO phenomenon.

Sputnik 1 had been launched one month earlier, and the launch of Sputnik 2 was imminent. Then, in the first week of November 1957, a dramatic wave of UFO encounters struck the states of Texas and New Mexico. The apparent primary target was a small town called Levelland.

What happened in Levelland, Texas was unprecedented and had never occurred before, and has yet to be repeated. Dozens of people in Levelland and the surrounding areas reported UFOs disabling their vehicles, causing the electrical system to fail and the car engines to cease functioning.

In case after case, UFOs buzzed cars at low level, and often landed on the road, blocking their way forward. UFO car-stalling cases were well-known among UFO researchers, but this brazen and audacious level of activity had never been reported before.

While the small town of Levelland, Texas and the surrounding area first appeared to be the target, the truth was much different. In fact, similar and often identical encounters occurred across the United States and the world, involving not only car-stalling cases, but many bizarre electromagnetic effects on a wide variety of machines.

UFO researchers had long known that UFOs cause these strange effects, but had considered them an accidental byproduct of close-up UFO sightings. But after what happened in Levelland, questions began to be raised. Perhaps these effects weren't accidental at all. Perhaps they were intentional.

The U.S. government and Project Blue Book officials first attempted to debunk and cover-up the events, claiming that sightings were nothing more than "ball lightning," while at the same time, warning military and civilian witnesses not to speak to the press. But it wasn't ball lightning. The sightings were too dramatic to ignore, and soon garnered national headlines.

The Levelland UFO encounters have never been explained and remain a mystery to this day. Nothing like them has ever occurred before or since. This amazing event was easily the most famous UFO event of the year, and is well known among researchers.

However, what many people don't know is just how numerous, dramatic and widespread the encounters actually were, or the consequences that followed. This video presents a minute-by-minute account of this incredible week in November 1957


Cheers.
 

karl 12

Noble
Kevin Randle discusses the Levelland flap in the vid below and describes how the USAF manipulated the data from their own files (no surprise there).

Apparently the family of one of the Sheriffs involved also stated he was 'instructed' not to discuss the case and in reality got much closer to one of the objects than initially reported.



From 24:24






Relevant links:


A CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN UFO VEHICLE INTERFERENCE CASES - Compiled by Keith Basterfield


UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE
by Mark Rodeghier



EFFECTS OF POSITION & DISTANCE IN UFO IGNITION INTERFERENCE CASES
by Donald Johnson
 

Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
Thanks, Karl!! There is also at least one old article in the Old Encounters thread about Levelland.
It's nice to find folks who are on the same page with all of this stuff.
 

karl 12

Noble
Thanks, Karl!! There is also at least one old article in the Old Encounters thread about Levelland.

It's nice to find folks who are on the same page with all of this stuff.


Thanks mate and it certainly is, once did a thread many moons ago and could not believe the sheer number of reports during this seven day period (many of which appear to describe a 'highly maneuverable egg-shaped object with no wings, tail, or fuselage') - lots of links have now been taken down but still have the content.

As for the USAF, here's how they handled the investigation:



"The Air Force sent a single investigator, a sergeant in civilian clothes, who showed up at noon two days later, spoke only with a few of the witnesses, and left before the day was over."

J. Clark, pg 919, Vol 2 The UFO Encyclopedia



And the rebuttal to the USAF debunk by atmospherical physicist Dr James E. Mcdonald.



Atmospheric physicist Dr. James McDonald completed a study and determined that there had been no storm in the area, and thus no source of excessive moisture to interfere with the automobiles' electrical systems:

"In a two-hour period near midnight, November 2-3, 1957, nine different vehicles all exhibited ignition failures, and many suffered headlight failures as objects described as about 100-200 ft long, glowing with a general reddish or bluish glow, were encountered on roads in the vicinity of the small community of Levelland, Tex.


This series of incidents became national headline news until officially explained in terms of ball lightning and wet ignitions. However, on checking weather data, I found that there were no thunderstorms anywhere close to Levelland that night, and there was no rain capable of wetting ignitions. Although I have not located any of the drivers involved, I have interviewed Sheriff Weir Clem of Levelland and a Levelland newspaperman, both of whom investigated the incidents that night. They confirmed the complete absence of rain or lightning activity. The incidents cannot be regarded as explained."


With no "severe electrical storm" to "stimulate the populace into a high level of excitement," the official explanation falls apart.

Cheers.
 

Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
Already some historical discussion on the forum regarding the Levelland UFO flap but thought this presentation by Preston Dennett did a great job of exploring just how many sightings there actually were (and just how far afield the reports came in).

Preston also explores other close range eyewitness descriptions during that week (and the resulting EM effects) and really would be interested in opinions on the vid.




One Week In November:







Full description:





Cheers.

That really is an excellent video from Preston Dennett. I hadn't connected those cases together geographically, and when that is done, it is even more amazing.
 

karl 12

Noble
That really is an excellent video from Preston Dennett. I hadn't connected those cases together geographically, and when that is done, it is even more amazing.


Couldn't agree more mate and hats off to Preston for a great video - might not be many functioning links but will gather and post all those relevant newsclipping articles on this thread when time allows.

Ken H. Fortenberry also discusses 'the great sighting week' of 1957 below with reference to other very strange global pilot UFO cases:


See 40:00





Also another additional report from that month below involving the pilot of U.S. Air Force F-86 jet fighter over Illinois who reported 'a large, flat, silver coloured object which had great speed and performed acute maneuvers' - the government document which was sent from the Commander of ATIC also concedes there is 'a current rash of UFO sightings'.



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Message from Commander, Air Technical Information Center to Commander, Air Defense Command

From the records of the Air Force’s "Project BLUE BOOK," this message dated December 3, 1957, references the sighting of an "unidentified aircraft" by the pilot of an Air Force F-86 in the skies over Joliet, Illinois on November 27th.

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Cheers.
 

Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
Kevin Randle discusses the Levelland flap in the vid below and describes how the USAF manipulated the data from their own files (no surprise there).

Apparently the family of one of the Sheriffs involved also stated he was 'instructed' not to discuss the case and in reality got much closer to one of the objects than initially reported.



From 24:24






Relevant links:


A CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN UFO VEHICLE INTERFERENCE CASES - Compiled by Keith Basterfield


UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE
by Mark Rodeghier



EFFECTS OF POSITION & DISTANCE IN UFO IGNITION INTERFERENCE CASES
by Donald Johnson

I think I'll get Kevin's book:
 
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