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.
., .. •-· of February 18 over ncrtt.ern l\ansas was just t.hat, inasrmch as meteorites have been recovered tron i t. 11 Thore were found , be(;ir nine 1.prU 211, first sever al su.lla fra..,-en:.s JJ) to ore of 4 1/2 pounds . Then a disturl ed spot in a clover f'ield led to "the di i:giI1e up of a r i PC& of so e 109 po\l1llls e edded about two feet in the soil. The st.one i s nhat is tenred aa an "achondrite", a technical name f or an unusual cy-pe or stony m teorite. It is reported t o be of a tYJ hi ch will detAriora~a rapidly. A p otorrHph or t re trail of the meteor, r:l.'.lde by amateur p.otor,r ~her Duane ,I. ~"fr117 of Nortor , shows tho vapor tridl left in the sky by t.he exploaiol"'l of a ~eteor whi ch wa s secl'I 1r Oklahooa, t,ew -exic o, Colorado , Kansas, ard uebr .,~ka . It wu m:.de at. uray 1s },oae, ni.Je mil,-.s rort·1 or Norton , jlPt tour r.,inutes after the teer XJ loded . A ~r:n.cce of blue wliite smoktio remained in the sky £or an hour 1''ebruary Wth . '!'his pboto craph is in tile under lri i ent '1101. Furthe r r emarke are contained in supplemen t .
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.