Documents / Report
This U.S. Air Force file of unidentified flying object check lists covers incidents 101 to 172 from 1948. Most of the pages concern the February 18, 1948 explosion over Norcatur, Kansas: witness statements, B-29 crew sightings, and letters from Norman Markham suggesting a spacecraft travelling to and from the moon. An excerpt from Dr. Lincoln LaPaz calls the event a genuine meteorite fall. Other entries record sightings at Smyrna, Tennessee, Los Angeles, the Pacific, the Netherlands, Ohio, Turkey and near Moscow.
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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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 210 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.