Norman
S. Bean was a first-generation ufologist. He was born in 1906, so he was a
full-grown man when the 1947 news of flying saucers captured his life-long
interest. Electronics engineer by trade, his 1967 profile in the Palm Beach
Press described him as a graduate of Tufts College, Mass., who had “designed
electrical equipment for Pan-American Airways, Philco Corp. and RCA. In 1943 he
designed a television camera for guided missile projects: after the war he is
credited with designing the first RCA commercial TV camera for both sports and
studio use.”
Around
1950, Bean became the electronics and TV engineer for station WTJV in Miami,
Florida. In his spare time, Bean kept up with UFO literature and gathered
enough knowledge that in 1952, he began lecturing locally on the topic,
sometimes as often as three times a week, His position was that flying saucers
were real, and he believed them to be spaceships from another planet.
He
didn’t speak much about it publicly, but Bean and his wife Louise had a strong interest
in psychic phenomena. “I read a book about Edgar Cayce's life in 1952. It
opened my eyes and changed my way of thinking.” His passion was flying saucers,
and he connected with others who shared his interest, including the saucer
clubs that started forming. He also became friends with a notable UFO witness
from Miami, Pan American World Airways pilot Bill Nash, of the July 14, 1952, Nash-Fortenberry
UFO sighting.
Bill Nash
Bean’s
First Saucer Sightings
They
say, “seeing is believing,” but up until late 1953, Bean had been believing without
seeing. From Bean’s letter to The Little Listening Post newsletter:
"There
have just been two saucer sightings over Miami. March 18 [1954] I had my first daylight
sighting. Saucer was following a B-36. Several witnesses, (one my technical assistant,
Carl McClure, is an ex-navy spotter.) It was his first sighting. I had a night sighting
ln Sept. [1953], through my telescope. On that occasion I watched the object
hover for four minutes. It
was glowing red."
At
the beginning his ufology career, James Moseley went to Miami in Feb. 1954 to meet
William Nash and “contacted a number of interesting people... Norman Bean, a
pseudo-engineer and saucerer who'd invented a psychic machine that he claimed
healed people at a distance; and marine PFC Ralph Mayher, whom Nash had put me
onto. In late July 1952 Mayher had shot some movie film of a saucer. His
superiors took the film to a local television station to have it developed,
where it was processed by none other than Norman Bean.” (Shockingly Close to
the Truth, 2002). Bean only played a minor supporting role in this UFO case, but the full story can be found at NICAP’s page on the Mayher film.
Besides his frequent lectures, Bean also frequently appeared on local radio stations to talk about flying saucers and their origins. At these appearances, members of the audience would sometimes tell him stories they heard about captured flying saucers, and even alien bodies. When in March 1954 Bean was unable to speak as planned, he asked his friend Bill Nash to fill in.
Based on
some of those second-hand tales, Nash said in his lecture on saucer, he said he
was convinced, "the Air Force has collected hardware from outer
space." That caused quite a stir and launched even more rumors and speculation.
(For more on that story, see Captured UFOs and Building Hangar 18: A Chronology.”
Agent of N.I.C.A.P.
NICAP (the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) described both Bean and Nash as “member-investigators” and also on their “Panel
of Special Advisors.” They’d later refine that a bit, listing Bean among their “Scientific
and Technical” panel.
Bean in 1959
With Sputnik and the UFO flap of 1957, his lectures had titles such as, “Satellites and Saucers, and "Mystery from Outer Space." Things slowed down but never stopped. The
1966 saucer flap put UFO speakers back in big demand, and it kept Bean in front of
eager audiences.
Here is What Bean Believes about UFOs
Now
for our feature presentation, an excellent profile on Norman S. Bean’s first two decades
as a ufologist, from the Tampa Bay Times, July 22, 1973, written by Gene
Rider.
Illustration by Rick McCormick.
13 UFOs over Miami
The
press continued to be interested in Bean’s views on UFOs. The Bulletin (Bend,
Oregon), Jan. 9, 1974, reported that Bean believed saucers were extraterrestrial
ships that are magnetically controlled, powered by atomic reactors for anti-gravity
flight, and that when an earthly nation discovers the secret, “it will rule the
skies.” The Miami News, Nov. 6, 1975, reported, “Bean, who says he has
seen 13 UFOs over Miami in the last decade or so, said it is not unusual for
the objects to sit suspended over airports.” Bean said, "This happens at
airports all over the world. It's as if they are curious about our methods of
flight."
The
Bermuda Triangle… and Roswell?
Charles
Berlitz's 1974 book, The Bermuda Triangle included some UFO cases, and
two of them were provided by Norman S. Bean.
In the 1979 documentary based on the book, the credits listed a few ufologists among the technical advisors including William L. Moore, Don Berliner and Bean.
Bean
was also mentioned in 1980 book by Berlitz and Bill Moore, The Roswell
Incident. It was in a section titled, “Holes in the Cover-up,” a passage about arumor that had been repeated about an of alien autopsy…
Norman
Bean, Miami, Florida, electronics engineer, inventor, and lecturer on UFOs,
remembers an incident that took place in the mid-fifties. After a lecture he
had just given he had a conversation with a retired air force officer, a
Colonel Lake, who informed him that a close friend had talked to a doctor in
Dayton, Ohio, at some length about the autopsies of the "saucer" crew
in which he had participated. According to Colonel Lake, the internal organs
were similar to those of human beings, with basic organs "just like
chickens and people." Colonel Lake, naturally aware of security
regulations, said he could talk about this now in a general way because
"all this is going to be a matter of public information in a few
months."
By
the time of the Roswell book, Bean was in his mid-70s, and retired, but not from
ufology. The
Feb. 1981 MUFON Journal announced him as their new State Director for
Florida.
“It
is an extreme pleasure to announce that one of the pioneers in UFOlogy in the
U.S.A. has accepted the position of State Director for Florida. Norman S. Bean,
a retired RCA engineer… Norman
has interviewed several thousand UFO sighting witnesses during the 30 years he
has been lecturing on UFOs. Many of our new MUFON members in Florida have
joined as a result
of the radio talk programs that Mr. Bean has participated in around south
Florida.”
After
serving almost four years, Bean retired from the role in late 1984 due to “his
inability to travel and advancing age.” A few years later, the MUFON Journal,
April 1987 carried some sad news.
Bob
Pratt learned from Mrs. Louise Bean that her husband Norman Bean, former State
Director for
Florida, died on December 8, 1986 at the age of 80. Mr. Bean, a retired RCA
engineer with many television related patents and truly a UFO pioneer, was
recognized by Larry King on
his CNN radio show, featuring the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 UFO sighting
report. Norman had appeared on many of Larry King's radio programs when they
both lived in Miami, Florida.
George W.
Earley was an aircraft engineer, a writer, a lecturer, a
Fortean, and a strong advocate for the scientific study of UFOs. Since 1940, Earley
was an avid reader of fantasy and science fiction, and active in its fandom,
with many of his letters appearing in club newsletters and national magazines.
Earley’s obituary goes into further detail on his otherworldly pursuits:
“For 50 years, George was a prolific
freelance writer, exploring a wide range of interests: science fiction, space
exploration, photography, Dixieland jazz, conservation, and what he termed ‘unexplained
phenomena’… In 1968 he published an anthology of science fiction titled Encounters
with Aliens. He wrote letters to the editor, op-ed pieces, and other
articles for newspapers on both coasts. He formed a Connecticut chapter of the
National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena…”
In 1961, Earley was appointed a national
adviser for NICAP’s Panel of Special Advisers and was one of its most an
influential members.
On May 15-18, 1967, Earley gave an outstanding lecture on the UFO topic for the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference at the Americana Hotel in New York City. It was a realistic overview of the first 20 years of the phenomena for the general public, and concluded by insisting that it was worthy of "a more extensive investigation." The NICAP site hosts the entire lecture, Unidentified Flying Objects: An Historical Perspective.
Earley attended a less serious gathering
in the same city later the next month. It was Jim Moseley’s New York UFO
Convention, but he found it far too full of entertainment and Contactees for a “Congress
of Scientific Ufologists.” Earley’s unfavorable review was published in the Hartford
Courant, July 9, 1967, called "Hippies, Old Ladies, Over 30 Types
Orbit in Flying Saucer Circles." See: The UFO Anniversary and the Giant New York Convention of 1967
Earley’s 1968 book combined two of his
greatest interests science fiction and UFOs. Ivan Sanderson wrote the introduction to this collection of stories examining the possibility that UFOs are manned by intelligent beings from outer space, and it was titled,Encounters with Aliens: UFO's and Alien Beings
in Science Fiction. The anthology featured works by Theodore Sturgeon, Mack
Reynolds, Robert F. Young, Avram Davidson, Richard Wilson, and other authors.
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Over the years, Earley contributed
articles to many UFO and science fiction magazines, Fate magazine, Pursuit,
Saucer News, Official UFO, Amra, Beyond Reality,
and letters of comment to many, many more.
In his UFO writing, Earley interviewed figures from across the belief spectrum, such as skeptic Philip Klass, alien abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, and paranormal researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee. Earley encouraged the exploration of the unknown, but stressed the need for rational evaluation of the data his 1983 letter to the APRO Bulletin:
“There is, it seems to me, a disquieting tendency in some ufological circles these days not only towards uncritical acceptance of many claims/reports, but of accusing those who would question such claims of being [debunkers] or dupes of the CIA.”
Earley in the the 21st Century
In later years, Earley was a columnist and contributing editor for Bill and Nancy Birnes’ UFO Magazine, and wrote the column, “The Opinionated Oregonian”
George Earley's connection to the Birnes resulted in
him being featured in the first episode of UFO Hunters, “The UFO Before
Roswell” about the story of the alleged saucer debris recovered at Maury
Island. Later, he was a guest on the Birnes' radio show, Future Theater, July 2011 , where he discussed the history of the Horten wing and addressed Annie Jacobsen’s claims that a was behind the Roswell incident. He also spoke about his research on the Maury Island hoax.
In 2014, Earley wrote to Loren Coleman, giving an update on his retirement.
"Be advised this 'dinosaur' of ufology is still alive and reasonably well. At 87, I may be one of the few left who read the original news story on the Arnold sighting..."
Finally, we’d like to remember George W.
Earley by presenting a collection of his writings from the beginning of his UFO
days up until the time he formed a Connecticut chapter of NICAP.
The first UFO
letter we located was from 1955, Earley would have been 28 years old at the
time. It was a book review of George Adamski’s Inside the
Space Ships.
Hartford Courant, Aug. 7, 1955.
Spaceman: Bookshelf, reviews of Harold T. Wilkins’ Flying Saucers on the Attack, Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, and Edward Ruppelt’s The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.
Hartford Courant, June 3, 1956
Spaceman: Bookshelf, reviews including: Aime Michel’s The Truth about Flying Saucers, Gray Barker’s They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, and Truman Betherum’s Aboard a Flying Saucer.
Hartford Courant, Sept. 23, 1956
Review of Arthur Constance’s promotion of “Saucerian Doctrine” in The Inexplicable Sky.
Hartford Courant, Oct. 27, 1957
Letter to the Editor on UFO sightings and NICAP.
Hartford Courant, Dec. 28, 1958
Saucers Analyzed, reviews of Dr. Carl Jung’s Flying Saucers, and Aime Michel’s Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery.
Hartford Courant, May 29, 1960
Letter to the Editor on the diversity of UFO shapes.
Hartford Courant, Oct. 3, 1961
Letter to the Editor on John Glenn’s “space fireflies.”
Hartford Courant, May 5, 1962
Letter to the Editor on the formation of NICAP-CONN.
Hartford Courant, Dec. 17, 1962
That’s how he got his start, and from there Earley was an important voice for NICAP and a rational advocate in the support of research into unidentified aerial phenomena.
James A. Lee (1900 -1979) is one of the ufologists that time forgot. When Lee is mentioned in UFO literature, it’s generally for his role in investigating the famous UFO case in Levelland, Texas. Even then, it’s often only in passing, as in these two books from key authors on the saucer subject:
Flying Saucers: Top Secret by Donald Keyhoe, 1960, chapter, November Crisis:
“The great ‘flap’ of 1957 began on November 2... It began near Levelland, Texas, on Highway 116. The cases described were confirmed for NICAP by Sheriff Weir Clem and NICAP member James Lee, exactly as they were reported to the Air Force.”
J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience A Scientific Inquiry, 1972, Footnote #6 to chapter 10, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
There is much more to the story of James A. Lee and his research, but only a fraction of it was documented, mostly through newspaper stories. Thanks to the work of STTF’s Claude Falkstrom, we've pieced together a clearer picture of Lee and his UFO work.
A Student of the Universe
James A. Lee was born near Abilene, Texas, and had an interest in science and the mysteries of the universe. In 1929 he began selling healthcare accessories, and in 1941 opened the the Lee Medical Supply Company, which sold hearing aids, “rubber household gloves, walking canes and many other items, Lee was also a life-long amateur short-wave radio operator, from 1924 on his “ham” radio to communicate with others as far away as Hawaii.
James A. Lee, 1965
Lee was a member of the the Ancient and Mystic Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). On their behalf, in 1933 Lee presented a copy of Rosicrucian Principles for the Home and Business to the local library to help spread the word. Lee’s studies over three decades of exotic books helped him develop a hypothesis for the origin of tornadoes in 1954. He was convinced that scientists were wrong about space being a vacuum, and that it was filled by Ether, the solvent of all matter. Tornadoes were leftover energy from God’s creation of the world: “When the earth was created, space or the ethers began to spin... this whirling element measured millions and millions of miles across. He went on to say that, “There is no such force as gravity... All things are forced to the earth by the vortex of ethers...” Therefore, when conditions were right, it was these whirling ethers that sometimes formed tornadoes.
Lee’s radio hobby developed into a network in the early 1950s “composed of hams (amateur radio operators) throughout the Southwest who are interested in technical and scientific data. Hams from at least 42 cities and towns take part in the information-swapping sessions which start a 9 p.m. Mondays. Lee was the informal leader of the group which “ delved into science, UFOs, astronomy and other related subjects.” They originally called themselves “The Screwball Net” for several years, but around 1955 adopted a new name, “The Interplanetary Space Patrol.”
Space and Saucers
Lee was a member of the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the relatively conservative UFO organization headed by retired Major Donald Keyhoe, the man who popularized the hypothesis that: flying saucers were real, they came for outer space, and that the US government covered it up. Lee followed Keyhoe’s lead, and he spoke about publicly about the UFO topic, including it in his lecture for the Hardin–Simmons University’s Science Club, “A Study of the Universe” on March 1, 1957.
Saucers were just part of Lee’s interest in space, though. In March 1957, he was seeing to gather thirty volunteersand $1,500 to establish a “Moonwatch station” in Abilene to monitor the planned US launch of earth satellites which were to begin launching in January 1958. The chairman of the Smithsonian Institute’s technical steering committee met with Lee in Abilene and added his support. Selection of volunteers began in April.
May took Lee back to the UFO business, and he travelled to George Van Tassel’s Interplanetary Spacecraft convention at Giant Rock in California. Contactee Howard Menger was one of the feature speakers, but James Lee wasn’t listening. According to theInternational News Service story published in The Tyler Morning Telegraph, May 5, 1957:
“James A. Lee of Abilene, Texas was cruising the desert area in his special car rigged with an ‘infrared beam’ detector designed to track spacecraft that may have been spying on the flying saucer meeting.” (More later about Lee’s “Space Wagon.”)
A Message from Space
The Soviets beat the US into space, and in October 4, James Lee was one of the ham radio operators listening to the transmitted beeps of the satellite Sputnik 1 as it orbited the earth. James A. Lee had a lecture on UFOs scheduled for Sunday Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. at the Terry County Amateur Radio Club at Brownfield, Texas. The night before, two space-related things happened. Sputnik 2 launched from Russia on November 3, 1957, and at almost the same time, one of the most famous UFO sightings occurred in the United States, in the Levelland, Texas area, just 29 miles away from whereLee was to lecture.
Late in the evening of November 2, 1957, several independent reports of a giant lighted object were phoned into the office of Sheriff Weir Clem in Levelland, Texas. Some of the callers reported that their vehicle’s engines were stopped during the sighting, apparently electromagnetic interference. Here’s a link to summary of the Levelland case hosted at the NICAP site. It’s by J. Allen Hynek from his 1972 book, The UFO Experience, pages 123-128.
Levelland Video from WKY-TV:
Sheriff Weir Clem and witness Newell Wright interviewed
On hearing of the UFO sightings, Lee rushed to Levelland and shadowed Sheriff Clem as he questioned the witnesses. Lee was interviewed for the radio and newspapers, and stories appeared in nationally via news services. Lee made the bold assertion that the Levelland UFO “was a space craft from one of the neighboring planets.” Lee phoned in a report to NICAP, and the case was the lead story in their magazine, The UFO Investigator, Jan. 1958.
“Unfortunately for Donald Keyhoe, the one NICAP investigator on the scene in Texas was a Mr. James Lee of Abilene. Lee was not the most objective UFO detective. Compounding the problem was the fact Lee headed his own UFO group, 'The Interplanetary Space Patrol,' a name which sounded like a TV show starring Captain Video. Lee was his own 'boss' thus hard to rein in. Statements on November 6th was more about "mass space ship" invasions then discussions of evidence, but while written documents by Lee may have to be treated with caution, it seems he and his fellow investigator Roger Bowen tape recorded interviews with Levelland witnesses, data of value if they are ever found in someone's attic today.”
The Ballinger UFO Investigation
Another UFO sighting in the area was discovered, one from Nov. 1, about 230 miles to thesoutheast of Levelland. A big mysterious light had been seen over an oil rig in Ballinger, Texas, and once again, Lee traveled to investigate.Loren Gross' UFOs: A History: 1957: November 7th-12thprovides clippings and commentary on the Ballinger UFO investigation.
“NICAP's James Lee rolled into Ballinger, Texas, on the 8th of November to gather more data. It was hard to miss Lee when he came to town. He drove a 1949 Cadillac with special control panel just above the dashboard. The panel was filled with gadgets, dials, and all sorts of controls. Lee nicknamed the vehicle the "Space Wagon." The controls were for more than just show. Lee had a complex short-wave radio transmitter in his car so he could communicate with other ham operators.
Lee had plenty of opinions about UFOs but that didn’t mean he was speaking with Keyhoe's blessing.”
A prime example of Lee speaking his opinions without NICAP's blessing from The Abilene Reporter-News, Nov. 9, 1957:
James A. Lee... whose hobby is the study of flying saucers makes these assertions he says are based on interviews with various witnesses of the saucer occurrences:
1. That "there is a probability something big will happen this month," as "indicated" by messages received from the unidentified flying objects by certain U.S. residents.
2. "Beings" in the saucers have learned English and their voices exist on recorded tapes in this country.
3. Saucers must be from other planets, possibly Mars or Venus, and the smaller saucers ostensibly sighted on earth are remotely-controlled by mother ships.
4. The Pentagon in Washington was deliberately “buzzed” by saucers several years ago.
The Abilene Reporter-News, Nov. 9, 1957
The Final Years
For some reason, by 1958 James Lee’s enthusiasm for the Moonwatch project died. He said, “I don’t think such a station is necessary now. You can see these satellites without using complicated equipment. Lee also had a negative opinion of rockets for space travel, saying, “They’re not practical for space travel.” He thought solar or magnetic powered flight was the way to go.
The Abilene Reporter-News, Feb. 2, 1958
Lee continued to lecture, speaking about astronomy, outer space, and sometimes, saucers. He continued to be a member of NICAP and responded to their 1961 request for ham radio operators to attempt the creation of a national “UFO Network,” similar to the one he ran in Texas.
NICAP’s The UFO Investigator, July-Aug. 1961
The Abilene Reporter-News, Jan. 1, 1965
Lee continued to be a UFO proponent, but was less active publicly. Due to health problems, Lee retired from his medical supply business in 1969. He died ten years later on September 5, 1979.
The July 7, 1965, Abilene Reporter-News contained a letter to the editor by Lee replying to a news story containing authorities' prosaic explanations for flying saucers. James A. Lee's last known comments on UFOs blasted the skeptics. “Weather balloons? How ridiculous can intelligent people be?
The Abilene Reporter-News, July 7, 1965 . . .
Sources, Clippings and Further Information
The most detailed news story on James A. Lee and his UFO work appeared in The Abilene Reporter-News, Nov. 6, 1957. The complete text follows.
Did Abilenian's Talk Bring Levelland ‘Saucer’?
By Warren Burkett, Reporter-News Staff Writer
The "dateline" is Abilene, Texas, November 6, 1957.
Here is the statement:
"We are referring to the statement of Dr. Donald Menzel of Harvard College Observatory. His remarks to the effect that the Texas 'Bright Lights' are nothing more than a mirage is, to say the least, ridiculous and not based on known facts.
"The days of the skeptics are numbered and they had better find a good place to hide away, for even the entire population of our large cities will see these ships as they come in from outer space. They will soon come in large numbers for all to see, and the skeptics will not have a leg left to stand on.
"There is no need for alarm over the situation at this time."
This statement, given Wednesday morning to one of the nation's news wire services, is signed: "Jim Lee, Director, Interplanetary Space Patrol."
Jim Lee, director, Interplanetary Space Patrol is James Lee of 1834 Bellinger St. in Abilene. He is a 57-year-old businessman, tall and grey-haired. He was born in the tiny community of Hodges about 15 miles north of Abilene. He is married and has two sons, went as far as the 10th grade in Hodges school, buys and reads every book published by Harvard University, talks about his family with loving pride, studies until midnight every night and sleeps beneath one of the largest headboard bookcases in existence reaching almost to the wall on either side of his bed.
He builds amateur radio sets and helped a blind man build and operate his own radio set and provides him with recorded tapes from the books in Lee's library He speaks in a calm reasonable fashion things. about the doggondest things.
He's currently in the news from Boston. Mass, to California be cause of the mysterious lights which were seen Saturday night and Sunday morning near Levelland, Tex. By 5 p.m. Sunday,Lee accompanied by blind Roger Bowen, 38, of Hodges, reached Levelland. There they interviewed all who had seen the lights, felt their effects and speculated on what they saw.
Lee is convinced these Levelland lights are a space ship from another planet. He notes that the glowing object was seen on four roads around Levelland. And being seen was the purpose of the visit from these interplanetary visitors, says Lee.
Lee says these aerial phenomena are often seen where Lee and others who believe like himself are scheduled to speak on 1. "unidentified flying objects," 2. visitors from outer space and 3. un known beings who direct the operation of the "lights in the sky" with a plan and a purpose.
Why should these "beings" make the "lights" appear near where they are to be discussed? "It's a mailer of conditioning the minds of the people," Lee says. "Remember," he declared, "I don't buy all these stories. That's the problem, we get took in quite often." But, says Lee, where there are qualified observers such as newsmen, law enforcement officers or reports confirmed by ship or airplane radar, he believes.
Why did the lights appear Saturday and Sunday? Lee was scheduled to deliver his illustrated lecture on "unidentified flying objects" to the Terry County Amateur Radio Club at Brownfield, 29 miles south of Levelland. Why did the "space ships" appear at Levelland instead of Brownfield? Lee says the roads are more traveled around Levelland, and the "lights" would be seen by more people.
And Lee's free lecture in this tiny radio club shack at Brownfield was delivered at 2 p.m. that Sunday afternoon, complete with his forecast that more of the objects would be sighted. About 150 persons heard him, Lee says.
Lee has been called by more than a dozen radio stations scattered all across the United States since he returned from Levelland, equipped with tape-recorded statements from the people who saw the lights.
"I can tell you it takes guts to say these things," Lee declares, "I'm hubbing up against the big shots now." He's contradicted statements from engineers and scientists including Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, a man big in Lee's own field of self-study for 20 years, astronomy. And that's about the same length of time he's been fascinated by the thoughts of space travel.
If Lee's contention that the mysterious lights are being used to condition the people of the world to the appearance of things from outer space, Abilene may see the lights next Monday night. That's the next meeting date for the Interplanetary Space Patrol, a group of 100 amateur radio operators who tune together around the world each Monday night at 9 p.m. and talk about space visitors. This Monday is the night when Lee's special guest will be Ray Stanford of Corpus Christi, a 19-year-old man who spotted a "flying saucer" on Padre Island, off Texas' Gulf Coast, in 1954.
The Project Blue Book file on the Levelland case makes no direct mention of James A. Lee, but it contains several news clippings featuring his investigation and opinions on the sighting.
