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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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CHECK=LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incidort # 170 1. Date Around 5 May 48 2. Time N/S 3. Location Adapazari, Turkey 4. Name of observer N/S - taken from telecon Item extracted from Turkish newspaper "Yeni Sabah", Istanbul, 5 May 48 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer See above 7. Place of observation Village near Adapazari, Turkey 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude 650 feet 12. Spood N/S 13. Diroction of flight N/S 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color "shining" 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor dotectod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance exploded inspected 26. Remarks: Investigation now under way and the debris will be by experts.
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.