Joplin, Missouri: Police officers track blue-green object reported from Pittsburg, Kansas

In the early morning Sgt. Norman Finley of the Joplin, Missouri, police alerted fellow officers about an unexplained object overhead. Pittsburg, Kansas, police dispatcher James Cunningham notified the Joplin police that a UFO with 'vivid blue-green' colors and flashing lights had been seen over Pittsburg and seemed to be heading for Missouri. Joplin's Lt. Charles Hickman drove to Stone's Corner near the Joplin airport, waited nearly an hour and then watched an object in the sky for more than an hour; it was about 1,000 feet high, seemed about as big as two houses and maneuvered 'as if it were being controlled.' For the next three days there were more early-morning sightings at Coffeyville, Kansas; Joplin, Springfield and Newton County, Missouri; and northeast Oklahoma. The Joplin Globe later reported weather balloon equipment found near the city as a possible source of the reports, and the case appears in the Condon Report. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.