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This declassified U.S. Air Force compilation of unidentified flying object incidents 101 to 172 contains check-list reports from 1948 and 1945. Incident 101 covers the 18 February 1948 sky explosion over Norcatur, Kansas, with letters from Norman G. Markham suggesting a lunar spacecraft, Dr. Lincoln LaPaz's reply judging it a genuine meteorite fall, and witness statements. The final incident, 172, records George F. Gorman's 27 minute F-51 pursuit of a white light over Fargo on 1 October 1948, corroborated by tower controllers and Dr. Cannon.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.
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## . CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 24 July 48 Incident # 144 2. Time 0245 3. Location 20 miles south of Montgomery, Ala 4. Name of observer Pilot Clarence Shipe Chiles & Co-Pilot John B. Whitted & Mr. McKelvie, (Occupation - N/S) 5. Occupation of observer Pilot and Co-pilot, EAL 6. Address of observer Atlanta Office of EAL 7. Place of observation Air-20 miles south of Montgomery, Ala 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer s N/S 10. Time in sight 5 to 10 seconds 11. Altitude 5.000 ft 12. Speed 500 to 700 MPH (See Atlanta Constitution of 25 July 48) 13. Direction of flight Southwest toward Mobile and New Orleans 14. Tactics Pulled up sharply with tremendous burst of flame (Atlanta Constitution-25 July 48) 15. Sound none 16. Size 100 ft long and about twice the diameter of "B-29" 17. Color N/S 18. Shape cigar-shaped 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails red-orange flame blue fluorescent glow running beneath the object Weather conditions Full moon, clear with broken cloud coverage of 4/10 Effect on clouds N/S - pulled up into one Skotches or photographs 2 25. Manner of disappearance Disappeared intoa cloud 26. Romarks: See attached statements
Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 210 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.