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...such as street lights or auto headlamps. If the "interface" is too turbulent, it can form no visible image, but if it is just steady enough, it will create bright images that seem to sweep rapidly across the dark sky. This is the explanation, says Menzel, for the famous "Lubbock Lights,"* which have been taken for interplanetary space ships flying in formation. They may be the images of a string of lights at a distance, or they may be reduplicated images of a single very bright light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Reported frequently over Lubbock, Texas. They look like "V"-shaped formations of bright spots in rapid motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...enemy fire caught Davis' Sabre jet; it flipped out of control and crashed to the ground behind the Communist lines before Davis could parachute out. The Air Force listed him as missing in action, but his flying mates felt sure that 31-year-old Ace Davis, of Lubbock, Texas, was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fallen Ace | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

During the war years, chemists from outside the state began taking notice of Fisher's experimental substation near Lubbock. The first sample of 2,4,5-T for tests on mesquite ("just enough to put in your hat") was delivered to him in 1945 by Dow Chemical Co. Later American Chemical Paint, which holds the original patent on 2,4,5-T, and Du Pont joined in. Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Mesquite War | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Lubbock advertising produced good results, especially when a framed picture of the Last Supper was offered as a "diploma." A series of twelve ads brought 168 requests for the course, resulted in 17 known conversions in about a year. In 1948, the Paulists tried the experiment on a larger scale in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Converts by Mail | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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