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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. Timo N/S 3. Location Holloman Air Force Base 4. Name of observerMr. Chance 5. Occupation of obgorvorTrained balloon o server, Geophysics Lab Section 6. Address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation From the ground 8. Number of objects Two 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 30 seconds 11. Altitudo Very high 12. Spood Very high, faster than any knownaircraft 13. Direction of flight1 straight up, 1 disappeared in the west First one veered to the right, started down and was lost to view. 14. Tactics Second one made arc into the west at a terrific speed and disappear suddenly. 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color Golden hue 18. Shape Had appearance of a major's insignia, that is, irregularly rounded and slightly concave on top 19. Odor dotectod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Mannor of disappearance Disappeared suddenly 26. Romarks: Mr. Chance was the only one of the three witnesses who saw two objects. When he first perceived them, they were going
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.