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This combined Project Sign file, drawn from USAF records, documents the 1 October 1948 encounter over Fargo, North Dakota, in which Air National Guard pilot 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman chased a small round white light in his F-51 for 27 minutes. The file holds checklists, interrogation reports by Major Paul Kubala of the ATI Field Office at Wright-Patterson, tower witness statements, Geiger readings on the aircraft and press clippings. It concludes that Gorman's statements should be accepted as truth until proven wrong.
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# Confidential # AFT FIELD OFFICE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS AIR MATERIAL COCAMD Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio PX/n1h 4 October 1948 ## INTERSOGATION REPORT NO. 4 ID. PROCEDURE OFFICER: Major Paul Kubela. personal History of Person Interrogated: NAME: Manuel E. Johnson. AGE: Thirty-four years. AIRBUS: 1422 Broadway, Fargo, N.D. OCCUPATION: Assistant airport traffic controller, Fargo Airport. HARITAL STATUS: Married, no children. EDUCATION: High School graduate. Military History of Person Interrogated! None - Civilian. Evaluation of Person Interrogated: Mr. Johnson is approximately of the same type as Mr. Jensen, stoical, quiet, Scandinavian type, not easily impressed, teetotaller, smoke pipe only, has never used habit-forming drugs. ## Summary of Interrogations: Mr. Johnson was on duty at the Pargo-Airport tower since about 1000 hours. 1 October 1945, and was in the tower at the time the R-51 called in requesting information about local traffic. At the time when Lt. Gorman called the second time in regard to the object, Mr. Johnson walked to the rear of the receiver and, looking out of the south window, saw the object and the Ob. Object, at this particular time, was a little higher than the Piper Ob. and outside of him. Object seemed to be on a north heading and then turned northwest. Mr. Johnson had no other information to offer in support of what Mr. Jensen had to say. He added, however, that Dr. Cannon and partner had, in the meantime, landed and come to the tower and that Dr. Cannon had walked on to the balcony of the tower and remained on the southeast corner watching the object. Mr. Johnson heard no sound from the object, noticed no odor, and saw no exhaust strokes. please PAUL KURALA Major, 1954 Chief, ATI Field Office EXHIBIT "C"
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