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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.

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“Nevers”7 pages

  • 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 18 February 1948

2. Time 5:01 P.M.

3. Location Noreatur,ansas

4. Name of observer M. R. Krehbiel account (taken from newspaper)

5. Occupation of observer Editor

6. Address of observer Norton, Kansas

7. Place of observation Noreatur, Kansas

8. Number of objects ne

9. Distance of object from observer N/S

10. Time in sight N/S

11. Altitudo 30-35 miles above earth

12. Speed N/S

13. Direction of flight N/S

1h. Tactics N/S

15. Sound One big explosion - "afterwards a lot of little explosions"

16. Sizo N/S

17. Color Bluish-white smoke smudge

18. Shapo Mushroom

19. Odor detected N/S

20. Apparent construction Meteor

21. Exhaust trails Mana Bluish-white smoke smudge

22. Weather conditions $ ^{H} / S $

23. Effect on clouds N/S

24. Skotches or photographs Photo of vapor trail left in sky by explosion

25. Nanner of disappearance Disintegration

26. Romarks: Oscar Monnig, of the Texas Observers, amateur Astronomy, 1010 Morningside Drive, Ft. Worth, offers "tangible proof that the fireball

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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.