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box Incident Summaries 101-172

U.S. Department of War · 178 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 25 # CONFIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Intelligence Hamilton…
  • p. 26 HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence Hamilton Field, California 4AFDA…
  • p. 31 …who lives in her neighborhood, which is Hamilton, Baltimore, Maryland, and this woman stated that she…
  • p. 32 …Location Baltimore (Hamilton) Maryland 4. Name of observer Identity confidential 5. Occupation of observerActive in American…
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The object was clearly outlined, but did not look like a balloon. The Perkins Observatory was alerted but was unable to sight the object.

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