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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 5 April 1948 2. Time Afternoon 3. Location Holloman Air Force Base 4. Name of observer Mr. Johnson 5. Occupation of observer Trained balloon observer, Geophysics Lab Section 6. Address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation From the ground 8. Number of objects One 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight 30 seconds 11. Altitude Very high 12. Speed Tremendous 13. Diroction of flight West 14. Tactics Object made three vertical loops, upon completion of which it it disappeared in a large arc to the west 15. Sound None 16. Sizo Considering the moon the size of an orange, the object was the size of a dime 17. Color N/S 18. Shapo Bore some resemblance to, but definitely not, a balloon 19. Odor dotoctod None 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Disappeared suddenly 26. Romarks: Presumably Mr. Johnson saw the object that did not veer to the right. (See Incident #112 b) He stated that it was absolutely
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.