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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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1. Date 11 Aug 48 2. Time 1200 and 1215 hours CST 3. Location Hamel, Minnesota 4. Name of observer Jerome Leuer (age 10 and Benne Leuer (age 8) 5. Occupation of observer children 6. Address of observer R/R 1 Hamel, Minnesota 7. Place of observation As above - back yard 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer a matter of a few feet 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude rested on ground - 12. Spcod N/S 13. Direction of flight After resting on ground it ascended to a height of 30 feet and shot off in a northeasterly direction 14. Tactics spun once, made whistling noise, shot straight up 20 ft, halted and again made whistling noise. Maneuvered around tree branches & tele 15. Sound whistling noise - like steam whistle wires. 16. Size 1 ft thick - 2 feet wide 17. Color dull gray 18. Shapo round 19. Odor dotoctod N/S 20. Apparent construction metallic 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 21. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance into northeast 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.