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This U.S. Department of War file collects Project Sign era checklists and incident summary sheets for incidents 101 to 172. The largest item is the 18 February 1948 explosion over Norcatur, Kansas. For it the file gathers witness statements, speculative letters from Norman G. Markham, and Dr. Lincoln LaPaz's view that it was a genuine meteorite fall with curious aspects. Other entries cover B-29 crews, a two-decked wingless object over the Netherlands, a Turkish rocket report, a Moscow sighting, and George Gorman's 1 October 1948 Fargo encounter.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. NARA Record Group 38, catalogue id 143685. Each of these incident summaries 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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INCIDENT SUMMARY SHEET (To be filled out and retained in files) 1. Date of Observation 7 July. 1948. Incident # 137 2. Time of Observation 2114 and 2115. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 4. Observer's Position On ground at Chapel, N.C. (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer University of North Carolina. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. Mathematics Instructor. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 3. 9. Size of Object(s). 3.1/2 in length viewed perspectively about size of a/c. 10. Color of Object(s). 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible) Flunt front tapering to a point in the rear shaped like a cigar. 12. Nature of Luminosity. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer Far. 14. Speed of Object(s). High Speed. 15. Time in Sight. Approximately 1 minute. 16. Tactics Did not pursue a general course, but moved generally North. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) East. North East. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail Not visible. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time Clear. 22. Peculiarities Noted. 23. Summary of Incident Objects seemed to have a blunt front which tapered to a point in the rear shaped like a cigar. Appeared about the size of an. airplane in the sky. They were about 3-1/2" in length. They didn't have any wings or any apparent means of getting around in the sky. (Attach a Separate Sheet if Additional Space is Needed)
Official release, 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. 178 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.