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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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1. Date 8 March 1948 2. Time N/S 3. Location Bakersfield, California 4. Name of observer Mr. Denio 5. Occupation of observer Pacific General Electric Company employee 6. Address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation Sighted from ground 8. Number of objects Two 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speod N/S 13. Diroction of flight Earthward 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color One object seemingly afire, red and black smoke trailing 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Woathor conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Fell to earth 26. Romarks: See supplement to Incident #106.
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.