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 been positively identified as a very commonplace and easily explainable natural phenomena.

It is very unfortunate that I can’t divulge exactly the way the answer was found because it is an interesting story of how a scientist set up complete instrumentation to track down the lights and how he spent several months testing theory after theory until he finally hit upon the answer. Telling the story would lead to his identity and, in exchange for his story, I promised the man complete anonymity. But he fully convinced me that he had the answer, and after having heard hundreds of explanations of UFO’s, I don’t convince easily.

With the most important phase of the Lubbock Lights “solved”—the sightings by the professors—the other phases become only good UFO reports.