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.
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 116 1. Date 11 Mar 48 2. Time night 3. Location Near shores of James Bay. 4. Name of observer V. J. Pratt 5. Occupation of observer Employe of Hudson Bay Co. 6. Address of observer Moose Factory 7. Place of observation Moose Factory, Canaca 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed meteoric 13. Diroction of flight earthward 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound No noise 16. Size size of football 17. Color N/S Blue flame 18. Shape N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction meteor 21. Exhaust trails exaggeright N/S 22. Weather conditions Night 23. Effect on clouds. N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance exploded 26. Romarks: (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.