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Arkansas City, Kansas, July 1956

Date of account
1956-07
Location
Arkansas City, Kansas
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 品 Was Bolloon 18Ju1y 1956 Arkansas City,Kansas Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft Local 口 Probably Aircraft GMT_19/00102 D AirVisual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircroft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical DYos 口 Probably Astronomical Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OSJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other- 40 minutes 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown still in sight one drifting SE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One object like a star appearing like winds aloft in the area of the alarge light bulb, orange with green sighting at the time of the points,estimated tc be at an altitude sighting corresponded exactly of 5 to 6000 feet.First seen at an to the course of the object. azimuth of 8o dgrs. Sighting wa

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