Documents / Official release
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.
“Los Angeles Times”1 page
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 1. Date Around July 8, 48 2. Time N/S 3. Location McKeesport, Pa. 4. Name of observer Mrs. Nell Veway & Mrs. Elizabeth Goltz Address of observers Mrs Veway: 3404 Grover Ave. ) McKeesport, Pa. Mrs Goltz: 2604 Grover Ave. 7. Place of observation McKeesport, Pa. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed N/S 13. Direction of flight N/S - toward Kennywood Park 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound noiseless 16. Size 12 to 15 inches in dia. 17. Color silver 18. Shape "plate" 19. Odor dottoed N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds disappeared in cloud bank 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance disappeared in blood bank 26. Remarks: (over)
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.