Amarillo reported light formation observation — August 1, 1956

Text extracted from the document: Dear Mr. ----- This is to acknowledge your letter of 17 March and the questions concerning the identified flying object. The kilotons outlined in several books and articles as having been caused by an unidentified flying object. The Air Force cannot confirm that the objects photographed by individuals were unidentified flying objects. The Air Force has no specific knowledge of infrared tracking of unidentified flying objects. TACKER Major, USAF Public Information Division Office of Information Teaneck, New Jersey 01-3d comeback 01-1 reader Dist office no 23, ogi, 230 21-9-229, Subj: Unidentified Flying Object (UFOS) 250 1st Ind 259th Air Reserve Flying Center, USAP, Hensley Field, Grand Prairie, Texas 31 AUG 1956 TO: Commander, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Forwarded in accordance with paragraph 7a(2)(a), Air Force Regulation 200-2, 11 August 1956. 23 - Carswell Air Force Base Fort Worth, Texas WF/VFS/mk 23 AUG 1956 SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Object (UFOB) TO: Commander 2996th Air Reserve Flying Center Hensley Field Grand Prairie, Texas 1. Dallas, Texas, telephone reported the following information to the OSI Detachment Office, Hensley Field, Grand Prairie, Texas, concerning the sighting of unconventional type aircraft: He advised that on 1 August 1956 as he was returning to Dallas, Texas, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, via Amarillo, Texas, he had departed Amarillo at approximately 0500 hours on Route 187 287. He observed that approximately ten (10) miles outside of Amarillo, he noted a bright green trajectory in the sky at about 10 o'clock. Shortly after he had landed just east of Dallas, he observed another similar phenomenon which originated to the north of Highway 287. Never did the phenomenon appear to descend below the level of the cloud base and moved intermittently within the cloud formation and on various occasions would move outside the extreme ends of the cloud running north to south. Hq 23d Dist OSI, Carswell AFB, Texas, file 24-0-229, Subject: Unidentifiable Flying Objects (UFOB) The phenomenon appeared to be the size of a grapefruit and appeared in brilliance equal to the ignition of phosphorus, giving a brilliant beam of light both above and below the phenomenon itself, but never both beams simultaneously. At various times, a faint trace of red, varying its position on the phenomenon, was observed.