Le mystère des "Lumières de Lubbock", une chaîne en forme de V d'objets illuminés qui volèrent au-dessus de ladite ville il y a 26 ans de cela, est maintenant plus déroutante que jamais.
Dans le dernier développement, des scientifiques assistés d'un ordinateur examinant les photographies du spectacle céleste de 1951 ont fait des trous dans l'"explication" du gouvernement fédéral selon laquelle les lumières était un phénomène naturel.
Les chercheurs indépendants ont rapporté après une analyse étendue des images que les objets brillants photographiés
as they zommed over Lubbock represent a formation of extraordinary flying objects
.
Ground Saucer Watch, a Phoenix-based civilian research group, said the Air Force was altogether wrong in writing off the "Lubbock Lights" as a natural occurence.
GSW investigators said their tests on the photographs prove that they could not have been caused by a flock of migratory birds reflecting the lights of the city.
And the research team also discounted the possibility the lights were caused by airplanes, stars or any atmospheric phenomenon.
Based on the photographic evidence and the analyzed data on the said Lubbock photographs, it is the consensus of
the GSW photographic staff that the images depicted herein represent a formation of extraordinary flying objects
,
the researchers said.
They called the photographs one of the more vexing photographic sequences ever taken, since the conception of
modern-day UFO sightings
.
The lights — resembling a string of pearl-like objects
moving with incredible
speed, according to
witnesses — were viewed in late August and early September, 1951. In some cases,
there were several flights of the objects reported each night.
Though seen by many citizens, only one person — Carl Halt Jr., a teenager at the time — photographed the display. His pictures supported other eye-witness accounts that the spectacle involved a V-or U-shaped set of illuminated objects.
Plusieurs enquêtes furent menées. L'explication officielle de l'observation par le gouvernement, rendue publique des années plus tard avec le publication du Projet Blue Book de l'Air Force, indiqua :
Le type d'oiseaux responsables de cette observation n'est pas connu, mais il est hautement probable qu'il
s'agissait de canards ou de pluviers. Les pluviers ne volant généralement pas en formations de plus de 6 ou 7, les
canards deviennent plus probables. Le fait qu'il s'agissait de la fin de l'été, et que les objets volaient de manière
cohérente vers le sud, tend à justifier la conclusion que les objets de cette observation étaient des oiseaux
migrateurs.
The GSW team, however, dispelled the Air Force conclusion. Using its computers, the civilian research organization recently reported that :
- The "Lubbock Lights" photographs were not retouched or hoaxed.
- The lights in the pictures were not connected to each other, but were
independent of one another
. The images in each exposure are NOT airplanes, astronomical bodies, nor birds flying low to the ground and being illuminated from mercury-vapor street lights. The density is much too bring to be attributed to these sources.
The individual light sources all had shape and substance. The spherical images were definitely NOT reflections or refracted upper atmosphere light (such as the change in the apparent position of a celestial body due to bending of the light rays emanating from it as they pass through the atmosphere).
GSW said that while some of the sightings of the lights reported in 1951 may have been birds, lights caught on film by Hart definitely were not.