“Too Dim to Photograph”: The Lubbock Lights, August 1951

Part 32 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Birds probably explain much of what the Texas Tech professors saw. William Ducker identified birds when the lights returned in 1952. How much of the 1951 series that explains is unclear. Hart’s four negatives show a repeating pattern of lights. Some lights shifted between frames. The Air Force lab couldn’t place them in the sky. An Albuquerque couple described a flying wing before Hart took his pic...