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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 April 1948 2. Time 11:00 - 11:30 3. Location Ashley, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mrs. elah Stephens 5. Occupation of observer Newspaper reporter 6. Address of observer 226 West High Street, Ashley, Ohio 7. Place of observation From the ground 8. Number of objects One 9. Distance of object from observer Not stated 10. Timo in sight approximately five minutes 11. Altitude Quite high 12. Spood Slow - dirfting 13. Direction of flight Southwesterly 11. Tactics None 15. Sound None 16. Size Smaller than the airplane that was in view at the time 17. Color Opalescent - like mother of pearl 18. Shape Long cylindrical body, like a stick of firewood 19. Odor dotoctod None 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear, few clouds in sky but non around object 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Romarks: A plane, which sounded as if it were flying low since there was an exceptionally loud roaring noise,first attracted the attention
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.