Miracles in Lubbock

I enjoyed reading your lengthy and absorbing articles (“Visions of Holiness in Lubbock,” and “Miracles Are Explained but Not Forgotten”) in the April 9 and 10 issues. The extended articles described the heavenly visions in Lubbock, Tex., during the year 1988. The events were associated with visions of Mary, Christ, and heavenly angels seen in the sky over Lubbock.

Sometime after the year 1957, I visited Lubbock and talked to a professor at Texas Tech University about the “Lubbock Lights” of 1951. In their 1952 book called “The Coming of the Saucers,” Kenneth Arnold and Raymond Palmer wrote that Carl Hart Jr., of Lubbock “took these two photos of formations of the flying saucers on Aug. 31, 1951.” The co-authors printed two pictures taken by Hart of V-shaped formations of celestial objects over Lubbock.

In another book called “Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 29, 1968,” American scientist Dr. James E. MacDonald described the celebrated case of the brilliant egg-shaped white objects that landed on fields and highways around Levelland, Tex. (near Lubbock), on Nov. 2 and 3, 1957. MacDonald said that some of the objects caused car ignition failures and were seen by highway patrol officers, local residents, and police.

In view of what has happened, I thought that your readers might be interested in not only the 1988 Lubbock events but also the earlier published reports of the striking events that happened in Lubbock in 1951 and in nearby Levelland in 1957.

KENNETH LLOYD LARSON

Los Angeles