![[Trick of the light?]](lubbock03.jpg)
- Summer 1951 in Lubbuck, Texas
- hundreds of people report strange lights in the night sky
- lights often appeared in a formation; bluish
- a local Air Defense Command radar reported an unknown target traveling at 900 mph at 13,000 feet
- Harvard professor Donald Menzel called these UFOs "temperature inversions"; Menzel became an outspoken critic of the "UFOnaut" hypothesis