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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. 12 …These reports have never been seriously considered by science, which in general ignores them. However, according…
  • p. 75 …Col Siegmund was never questioned but some sort of investigation obviously should be made in lieu…
  • p. 90 …a jet aircraft that I perhaps had never seen - because we as civilians know very little…
  • p. 147 …Another car stopped near them with two occupants who claimed that they had never witnessed anything…
  • p. 151 …many vapor trails from planes but had never observed anything like this. He states: "It was…
  • p. 169 …aircraft on Channel "B" and "C", "VHF" but acknowledgment of his transmission was never received. CONFIDENTIAL
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At approximately 0700 hours 20 Feb 48 witness saw object of oval shape traveling thru space from west to east. Its form ended in a very thin tail of approximately 3 feet in length. The forward part was bulky compared with the rear. The interior portion of the object gave off green, yellow and orange colors and it had a highly colored wake.

Statesments were obtained from a local newspaper "La Tribuna" which has interviewed several people claiming to have seen the saucers.

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