Levelland vehicle-stopping reports

Over about three hours on the night of 2-3 November 1957, the Levelland police took 15 calls, most from motorists who said a glowing egg-shaped object on or over the road stopped their engines and dimmed their headlights, which recovered when it left; the sheriff and fire chief also reported a light. Project Blue Book's brief field investigation concluded ball lightning or an electrical storm, though witnesses described mist and drizzle rather than lightning. There is no instrument record and no inspection of the vehicles. The case appears in AAWSAP's catalogue of physiological-effect cases (PURSUE DOW-UAP-D128).

None established; ball lightning and misperception amid wet-weather ignition failures proposed

• DocumentDOW-UAP-D128Release 6

  DOW-UAP-D128, AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010

  A clinical-medical/biophysics review, prepared under AAWSAP by an author identifying himself as the former Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology who ran the INSCOM effort behind a 1998 declassified 'Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons' study. It catalogs physiological injuries (burns, erythema, neurological and psychiatric symptoms) reportedly suffered by people exposed at close range to 'anomalous aerospace systems,' compares these to the known medical literature on RF/microwave/electromagnetic field injury, and argues the injury patterns can be used to 'reverse engineer' the energy characteristics of unknown craft. It explicitly excludes psychophysics, paranormal and abduction-related psychiatric phenomena from its main scope, but its appendices catalog UFO-related physiological effects (including 'apparent experience of telepathy' and 'claimed ESP development') and reproduce a classification scheme (the 'Vallee Ratings') that includes near-death experiences, OBEs, poltergeists and 'paranormal experience' as anomaly categories.

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