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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.
Incident # 164 164 1. Date 29th June 2. Time 11 P. M. 3. Location Uniontown, Pa. 4. Name of observer Mrs Catherine McDonald 5. Occupation of obgorvor N/S widow 6. Address of observer 38 Kensington Circle, Uniontown 7. Place of observation Uniontown, Pa. - Observer's front porch 8. Number of objects three - one at a time 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude 5000 ft 12. Spood Very fast 13. Direction of flight NE 14. Tactics spinning vertically on edge 15. Sound none 16. Sizo N/S 17. Color luminous 18. Shapo oval 19. Odor dotoctod None 20. Apparent construction N/S - transparent 21. Exhaust trails trail of light about 1 yard long 22. Weather conditions stormy and cloudy 23. Effoct on clouds N/S - flew ac89ss sky beneath base of clouds lightning could be seen thru it. 24. Sketches or photographs vague sketch - 25. Manner of disappearance lost sight of - obstructed by neighboring houses 26. Romarks: (over)
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.