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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172

U.S. Department of War · 210 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 10 …These reports have never been seriously considered by science, which in general ignores them. However, according…
  • p. 81 …Col Siegmund was never questioned but some sort of investigation obviously should be made in lieu…
  • p. 95 …a jet aircraft that I perhaps had never seen - because we as civilians know very little…
  • p. 165 …Another car stopped near them with two occupants who claimed that they had never witnessed anything…
  • p. 169 …many vapor trails from planes but had never observed anything like this. He states: "It was…
  • p. 182 …a definite sharp outline - something I had never seen before. At first I thought it might…
  • p. 195 …this aircraft on Channel "B" and "C", "VHF" but acknowledgment of his transmission was never received.
## CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incident # 160

1. Date 4 July 48

2. Time 11:15 P. M.

3. Location Dravasburg, Pa.

4. Name of observer John Jannicky, Jr.

5. Occupation of observer N/S

6. Address of observer Box 227, Dravasburg, Pa.

7. Placo of observation Dravasburg, Pa.

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer N/S

10. Time in sight 20 seconds +

11. Altitude N/S

12. Spcod Hovering - then moving on at undetermined speed

13. Diroction of flight N/S

14. Tactics moved across sky, stopping three times and resuming movement

15. Sound No noise

16. Size of a star

17. Color same as a star

18. Shapo looked like a star

19. Odor dotectod N/S

20. Apparent construction N/S

21. Exhaust trails N/S

22. Weather conditions N/S

23. Effect on clouds N/S

24. Skotches or photographs Vague sketch

25. Manner of disappearance N/S

26. Romarks: (over)

Cases discussed

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 210 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.