Arkansas City radar-visual unidentified-object report — July 1956

Here is the OCR-transcribed text from the document: Ruppelt//X/ak/A/6/ a newspaperman had primed the editor to always be on the alert, for a time he reached down and turned up the volume. Like all newspaper editors, this man had been belly-full of flying saucer reports - but this was a little differex9 "Let's go out and look," be said, rilly doubting that thee would sta anything. Here is the extracted text from the document: REPORT/TYPE/DATE As the group of men silently watched the silver light contin- ed to drift and for many minutes it moved vertically and hontaon- ally over a wide area of the sky. Several photos showing the big blob of light were shown around, and big fisherman readily admitted their pictures, their poles and tackle boxes and heads been before they saw it. JULY 19--(INS)--SEVERAL UNIDENTIFIED "TEAR SHAPED" OBJECTS THAT CAST WEIRD LIGHTS IN THE SKY CAUSED A NEW MYSTERY WHEN THEY WERE REPORTED SEEN FLOATING OVER SEVERAL KANSAS COMMUNITIES EARLY TODAY. SAID THE MYSTERIOUS "BULBS" CAST A METALLIC BLUE OR BLUISH GREEN LIGHT AND MOVED SLOWLY, FREQUENTLY CHANGING POSITIONS. WITNESSES IN WICHITA, HUTCHINSON, EL DORADO AND WELLINGTON, KAS., ALSO REPORTED SEEING WHAT APPEARED TO BE A HUGE LIGHT BULB DANCING IN THE SKY. A STATE PATROLMAN FIRST REPORTED SEEING THE OBJECTS MOVING EAST AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED NEAR HUTCHINSON. A B-47 PILOT FROM FORBES AIR FORCE BASE IN TOPEKA SAID HE SAW FLICKERING "WASTE GAS TORCHES IN AN OIL FIELD" WHICH SOME THOUGHT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED REFLECTIONS. BUT SAID THAT “WHAT I SAW WAS NO IMAGINATION." MC6547PGD" Text from the document: UFOB INDEX CARD ATSS-0703-191-56 1. 1956—Said the Denver Post in port: “...the Kansas highway patrol reported radar at the Hutchinson. The pilot said he found only ‘waste gas torches in an oil field." Said the patrol, ‘The objects stayed in the sky long after daylight; one disappeared around 5:15 a.m. and the other a few minutes later.' Further east near Emporia, a Santa Fe railroad tower operator reported seeing what appeared to be an artificial light in the sky around 3 am.