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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.
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

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.