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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 17th May 1948 2. Time night 3. Location Between Plevna and Miles City, Montana 4. Name of observer W. A. Bonneville 5. Occupation of observer Territory Mgr., B. F. Goodrich Company 6. Address of observer 415 W. Rosser Ave., Bismark, N. D. 7. Place of observation Ground, Route #212, West of Plevna, traveling west 8. Number of objects One 9. Distance of object from observer At closest point, approx. 2500 feet 10. Time in sight Some twenty minutes 11. Altitude N/S 12. Spood Twice the speed of the Northwest Airlines planes 13. Diroction of flight West, slightly south, then west 14. Tactics Performed arc 15. Sound None 16. Sizo Fairly large compared with an aircraft 17. Color White - (might have had slight bluish-white tinge) 18. Shope Ball 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S - but apparently meteor-like 21. Exhaust trails A long bright light shooting from under it 22. Weather conditions moonlight, but cloudy 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None - Map forwarded showing location of object 25. Mannor of disappearance Flew in a dark cloud bank 26. Romarks: See Supplement
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.