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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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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date 9 July 1948
2. Time 1205 AST
Incident # 145
3. Location Fielding Lake
4. Name of observers 1st Lt Dominick J. Caramia & Thomas B. Carpenter
5. Occupation of observer s(VIR) Photo
6. Address of observors 72nd RCN Squadron (VIR) Photographic c/o APO 731, c/o Postmaster Seattle Washington
7. Place of observation Fielding Lake, Alaska (63°11'-145°40' W
8. Number of objects Approximately 20
9. Distance of object from observer 5,000+ above
10. Timo in sight 5 seconds or less
11. Altitude 5,000+ immediately below the clouds
Speed over 500 MPH
13. Diroction of flight From WNW to ESE
Loud roaring sound heard (thought it was strong wind) before objects were sighted; sound sharpened into a buzz as they approached and passed.
17. Color grayish black
8. Shape Spheroid or disc-shaped
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails none visible
Weather conditions bright and sunny w/ $ \frac{5}{10} $ strato-cumulus cloud coverage
Effoct on clouds none - flew immediately below them
Sketches or photographs sketch
Manner of disappearance N/S
26. Remarks: The objects resembled a group of dots, grayish black in color and numbering about 20. They were plainly visible and either spheroid or disc shaped. They appeared to be jockeying back and 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.