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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 11:30
3. Location Delaware, Ohio
10. Name of observer Mrs. H. S. Kirkpatrick
5. Occupation of observer housewife
6. Address of observer 107 North Washington Street
7. Places of observation From the ground
6. Number of objects one
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/s
11. altitude V/S
12. Speed Steady - not too fast
13. Direction of flight Southwesterly
11. Tactics None
15. Sound None
16. Size It was not large enough for a person to be inside
17. Color White - about the color of a fleecy cloud
18. Shape $ S_{p} $ spherical - now what larger at top with a protruding end underneath
19. Color detected None
26. apparent construction 1/5
21. Exhaust trails None
22. Weather conditions Clear, blue sky, sunny
23. Effect on clouds N/
24. Sketches or photographs None
25. Narror of disapporance N/5
25. Romarks: Witness heard, but did not see airplane, and saw instead a white object, spherical in shape, larger at the top with a protruding 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.