Two of the most famous UFO cases in American history happened right here in West Texas, six years apart. Lubbock Lights (1951): professors watch, measure, and even photograph bluish formations. Levelland (1957): glowing, egg-like objects stall car engines and lift away—seen by a dozen witnesses, including the sheriff. A secretive Air Force unit investigates both. Its explanations raise more questions than they answer. We follow the paper trail across the South Plain...
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Two of the most famous UFO cases in American history happened right here in West Texas, six years apart. Lubbock Lights (1951): professors watch, measure, and even photograph bluish formations. Levelland (1957): glowing, egg-like objects stall car engines and lift away—seen by a dozen witnesses, including the sheriff. A secretive Air Force unit investigates both. Its explanations raise more questions than they answer. We follow the paper trail across the South Plain...
In the spring of 1541, a Spanish army led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado rode east out of New Mexico in search of golden cities. What they found instead was West Texas. This episode traces one of the most ambitious—and disastrous—expeditions in New World history, from the jungles of Mexico to the staked plains of the Llano Estacado. You'll meet Coronado, the ambitious conquistador chasing legacy. El Turco, the captive turned con man who spun a lie bright enough to lure 2,000 men into the wi...
WTX - A History of West Texas
Two of the most famous UFO cases in American history happened right here in West Texas, six years apart. Lubbock Lights (1951): professors watch, measure, and even photograph bluish formations. Levelland (1957): glowing, egg-like objects stall car engines and lift away—seen by a dozen witnesses, including the sheriff. A secretive Air Force unit investigates both. Its explanations raise more questions than they answer. We follow the paper trail across the South Plain...
