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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 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.

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  • p. 10 …These reports have never been seriously considered by science, which in general ignores them. However, according…
  • p. 81 …Col Siegmund was never questioned but some sort of investigation obviously should be made in lieu…
  • p. 95 …a jet aircraft that I perhaps had never seen - because we as civilians know very little…
  • p. 165 …Another car stopped near them with two occupants who claimed that they had never witnessed anything…
  • p. 169 …many vapor trails from planes but had never observed anything like this. He states: "It was…
  • p. 182 …a definite sharp outline - something I had never seen before. At first I thought it might…
  • p. 195 …this aircraft on Channel "B" and "C", "VHF" but acknowledgment of his transmission was never received.
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

1. Date 20 June 1948

2. Time 2230

3. Location Belleville, Illinois

4. Name of observer Lt Col Win F. Hull

5. Occupation of observer

Pilot, Supervisor of Flying Trng Scott AF Bone Scott AF Bone, Belleville, Illinois

6. Address of observer

7. Place of observation (7)

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer N/3

10. Time in sight N/3

11. Altitude Undetermined but below 6,000 ft

12. Speed

Approx 500 JPH

13. Direction of flight 295° S of Base then 340° upon reaching south end of Scott AF Base

14. Tactics 24gang course

15. Sound None

16. Size Six or eight inches in diameter

17. Color White light

18. Shape aorox round

19. Odor detected N/S

20. Apparent construction X/3

21. Exhaust trails None

22. Weather conditions Complete overcast at 6,000 ft

23. Effect on clouds N/S

24. Sketches or photographs None

25. Manner of disappearance N/S

26. Remarks No aircraft flying in the vicinity of Scott AF Base at the time light 27. Appearance: N/3 was sighted

Cases discussed

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 210 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.