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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 26 July 1948 2. Time 2100 3. Location Chamblee, Ga. 4. Name of observer Doyle L. Avery et al 5. Occupation of observer Observer, Atlanta Naval Air Base 6. Address of observer Atlanta Naval Air Base, Chamblee, Ga. 7. Place of observation Observation tower 8. Number of objects 1 blue white light 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitudo N/S 12. Spood N/S - like shooting star 13. Direction of flight SE turning S and gaining altitude 14. Tactics straight & level & gaining altitude 15. Sound None 16. Size N/S 17. Color blue-white light 18. Shapo N/S - object not seen 19. odor dotectod N/S 20. Apparont construction like shooting star 21. Exhaust trails N/S - possibly the blue white light was the exhaust 22. Weather conditions 2/10 cirrus at 25,000 ft; 1 to 4/10 of lower strato cirrus at 5,000 ft. Visibility 12 to 15 miles. Surf wind light & variabbe 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Mannor of disappearance N/S 26. Romarks: (over) 26. Romarks : ( over ) Make $ 2 $ More than $ 1000
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.