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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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Incident # 145
1. Date 9 July 1948
2. Time 1205 AST
3. Location Fielding Lake
4. Name of observers 1st Lt Dominick J. Caramia & Thomas B. Carpenter
5. Occupation of observer s(VLR) Photo
6. Address of observers 72nd RCN Squadron (VLR) Photographic c/o APO 731. c/o Postmaster Seattle Washington
7. Place of observation Fielding Lake, Alaska （63°11'-145°40' W
8. Number of objects Approximately 20
9. Distance of object from observer 5,000+ above
10. Timo in sight 5 seconds or less
11. Altitude 5,000+ immediately below the clouds
12. Spood over 500 MPH
13. Diroction of flight From MNW to ESE
14. Tactics Jockeyed back and forth in the ground formation (gave impression of shotgun blast pattern) but maintained straight course.
15. Sound Loud roaring sound heard (thought it was strong wind) before
16. Size dot objects were sighted; sound sharpened into a buzz as they approached and passed.
17. Color grayish black
18. Shapo Spheroid or disc-shaped
19. Odor detected N/5
20. Apparent construction N/5
21. Exhaust trails none visible
22. Weather conditions bright and sunny $ w / 1 0 ^ { \frac { 5 } { 1 0 } } $ strato-cumulus cloud coverage
23. Effect on clouds none - flew immediately below them
24. Sketches or photographs sketch
25. Mannor of disappearance N/3
26. Romarks: The objects resembled a group of dots, grayish black in color and numbering about 20. They were plainly visible and either spheroid or disc shaped. They appeared to be jockeying back and (over) 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.