Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) has been located in Lubbock given 1923. Its healing school, a Texas Tech University School of Medicine, non-stop in 1969. Lubbock Christian University, founded in 1957, as good as Sunset International Bible Institute, both contingent with a Churches of Christ, have their categorical campuses in a city. South Plains College as good as Wayland Baptist University work bend campuses in Lubbock. The city is home to a Lubbock Lake Landmark, biased of a Museum of Texas Tech University. The branch indicate is an archaeological as good as healthy story reserve during a northern for example of a city. It shows fact of dull off twelve thousand years of person from earth function in a region. Another biased of a museum, a National Ranching Heritage Center, houses ancestral ranch-related structures from a area. In August 1951, a V-shaped arrangement of lights was seen over a city. The "Lubbock Lights" array of sightings perceived inhabitant broadside as good as is regarded as a forlorn of a first good UFO cases. The sightings were counsel convincing given they were witnessed by multiform reputable scholarship professors during Texas Technological College as good as were photographed by a Texas Tech student. The photographs were reprinted national in newspapers as good as in Life magazine. Project Blue Book, a US Air Force's central investigate of a UFO mystery, did an endless examination of a Lubbock Lights. They resolved that a photographs weren't a anything forged as good as showed genuine objects. However, they did boot a UFOs themselves as being as if "night-flying moths" or a sort of bird called a plover. The Air Force argued that a underside of a plovers or moths was reflected in a feverishness of Lubbock's brand new transport lights during night. However, alternative researchers have total these explanations, as good as for many a "Lubbock Lights" wait for a mystery. On May 11, 1970, a Lubbock Tornado struck a city. Twenty-six people died, as good as repairs was estimated during $125 million. The Metro Tower (NTS Building), afterwards good known as a Great Plains Life Building, during 274 feet (84 m) in height, is believed to have been a tallest bureau building ever to wait for a approach set on from an F5 tornado. Then Mayor Jim Granberry as good as a Lubbock City Council, that enclosed Granberry's inheritor as mayor, Morris W. Turner, were charged with directing a charge of rebuilding a downtown in a emanate of a storm.