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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 GLM-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.

  • p. 23 …Incident reported on 9 March 1948, this headquarters, per telephone call from Sgt A. M. Larsen…
  • p. 24 # HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence Hamilton Field, California 4AFDA…
  • p. 25 …Although there is no evidence to substantiate the following, it is the opinion of this headquarters…
  • p. 30 …No action is contemplated by this headquarters. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: c/c furnished CG, AMC…
  • p. 32 …In compliance with "Intelligence Requirements - Un-identified aircraft" and letters, your headquarters, AG 452.1 A…
  • p. 33 …Above incident reported your headquarters, 2 April 1948, in radio, cite KL2143H. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL…
  • p. 34 …AG 452.1 A-2 1st Ind 15 April 1948 HEADQUARTERS, FAR EAST AIR FORCES, APO…
  • p. 105 …45-5, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Washington 20, D. C., dated 19…

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In approximately 2 minutes objects had disappeared

0 Objects began moving in a NNE direction and rapidly accelerating and climbing.

(2) 0 0 When first seen objects were in a semi-stationary position.

(1) 0 First one object was sighted, next, another one appeared.

Cases discussed

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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.