Lubbock Lights Publicity & Media
The Lubbock Lights were one of the best-publicized events in American UFO history. In April 1952 LIFE magazine published a popular article about the UFO phenomenon; the Lubbock Lights were a prominent feature of the article. Lieutenant (later Captain) Ruppelt devoted an entire chapter of his bestselling 1956 book to the incident (Ruppelt, 96-110). A novel, by Dr. David Wheeler, focuses on the Lubbock Lights.
In 1994, the Albuquerque-based progressive rock band Skumbaag staged a rock opera called "The Lubbock Lights- a melodrama and interpretive ballet" inspired by the 1951 sightings with music and words by John Bartlit and Wm. Craig McClelland.
In November 1999, Dallas, Texas-based television station KDFW aired a lengthy report about the Lubbock Lights. Reporter Richard Ray interviewed Carl Hart about taking the famous photos and being investigated by the U.S. Air Force. The coverage concluded that after decades of intense scrutiny, Hart's photos are still among the most remarkable and vexing in UFO history.
The Lubbock Lights were featured prominently in the award-winning 2002 Sci Fi Channel miniseries Taken, in which one alien poses as a human in the Lubbock area for a brief period of time.
In 2005, a film called Lubbock Lights was released about the music scene in Lubbock which describes some theories about the lights by the musicians from the area.
In 2006, Lubbock-based alternative country band Thrift Store Cowboys wrote and recorded a song entitled "Lubbock Lights" on their third album, Lay Low While Crawling or Creeping.
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