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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.
“Los Angeles Times”1 page
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1. Date Around July 8, 48 Incident # 161 2. Timo N/S 3. Location McKeesport, Pa. 14. Name of observer Mrs. Nell Veway & Mrs. Elizabeth Goltz 5. Occupation of observer housewife 6. Address of observer s Mrs Veway: 3404 Grover Ave ) McKeesport, Pa. Mrs Goltz: 2604 Grover Ave. 7. Place of observation McKeesport, Pa. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Spood N/S 13. Direction of flight N/S - toward Kennywood Park 1h. Tactics N/S 15. Sound noiseless 16. Size 12 to 15 inches in dia. 17. Color silver 18. Shape "plate" 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds disappeared in cloud bank 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance disappeared in blood bank 26. Romarks: (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.