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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.
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)

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.