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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. 26 …to the east and disappeared into the hills east of Bakersfield. On 13th March 1948, two…
  • p. 29 …Manner of disappearance Drifted to the east into the hills east of 26. Romarks: See supplement…
  • p. 88 …Highway #12 just West of Plevna, Montana before getting to the hills I noticed a very…
  • p. 89 …growing larger as it approached over the hills north of the highway - until it seemed to…
  • p. 100 …Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 4. Observer's Position On ground at Chapel, N.C. (i.e…
  • p. 101 …Date 7 Jul 48 Time 2114 and 2115 Incidont # 137a Location Chapel Hill, N. C. Name…
  • p. 132 …was believed to have fallen is densely wooded with many hills and valleys. See diagram attached.
  • p. 165 …Jeanne Hill Mrs. Myrtle Renfroe Mrs. John Gall
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

1. Date 8 April 1948

Incident # 112f

2. Time 14:30

3. Location Delaware, Ohio

4. Namo of observer Mrs. H. S. Kirkpatrick

5. Occupation of observer Housewife

6. Address of observer 107 North Washington Street

7. Place of observation From the ground

8. Number of objects One

10. Timo in sight N/S

9. Distance of object from observer N/S

11. Altitude N/S

12. Spood Steady - not too fast

13. Direction of flight Southwesterly

14. Tactics None

15. Sound None

16. Size It was not large enough for a person to be inside

7. Color White - about the color of a fleecy cloud

Shapo Spherical - womewhat larger at top with a protruding end underneat

19. Odor detected None

20. Apparent construction N/S

Exhaust trails None

Woathor conditions Clear, blue sky, sunny

Effoct on clouds N/S

Sketches or photographs None

Manner of disappearance N/S

26. Romarks: Witness heard, but did not see airplane, and saw instead a white object, spherical in shape, larger at the top with a protruding

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