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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 8 April 1948 2. Time 1430 3. Location Delaware, Ohio 4. Name of observer Rev. James B. Stephenson 5. Occupation of observer Pastor 6. Address of observer 93 N. Franklin Street, Delaware, Ohio 7. Place of observation From the ground 8. Number of objects One 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S Spood Slow 13. Diroction of flight Southwesterly Tactics None Sound None 16. Size Not Stated Color White 8. Shape Verticle, larger at the bottom and narrow at the top 19. Odor detected None 20. Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails None Woathor conditions Clear Effect on clouds N/S Sketches or photographs None Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: Witness first thought that object was a plane on fire, as it was surrounded by a vaporous substance. A plane was heard, 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.