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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Incident: 136 1. Date: 30 June 1948 2. Time: 2140 Location S. Knoxville, Tenn. Name of Observer: Mrs Whitehouse 5. Occupation of observer: wife of Maj Harvey J. Whitehouse Commanding Officer, ASU, 3319 Tennessee 6. Address of observer: see above 7. Place of observation South Knoxville, Tenn 8. Number of objects: 1 Distance of object from observer: N/S Time in sight: 3 minutes (according to Mrs Whitehouse) 3 seconds (according to ORC instructors) Altitude: 30,000 ft Speed 1,000 MPH West Direction of flight: West Tactics: N/S Sound N/S Size: N/S Color: orange Shape: Ball Odor detected: N/S Apparent construction "fire" Exhaust trails "streamer of bluish color trailing" Weather conditions: N/S Effect on clouds: N/S Sketches or photographs: none Manner of disappearance: Over horizon Remarks: (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.