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This combined file holds US Air Force Air Materiel Command intelligence records for Project SIGN on the 1 October 1948 Fargo, North Dakota incident. A cover memo to the Chief of Staff reports that investigators questioned witnesses on 3 October and found that an F-51 pilot had chased a small round white light for 27 minutes, and that the light outmaneuvered his aircraft. Major Paul Kubala's interrogation reports cover pilot Lt. George F. Gorman and tower controllers L.D. Jensen and Manuel E. Johnson. The memo rules out balloons, other aircraft and Canadian jets and rates the report A-2.
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## Chief of Staff United States Air Force Washington, 25, D. C. ATN: AFOIR Collections Branch 1. On the 3 October 1945, the following representatives of this Command interrogated witnesses involved in the North Dakota incident of 1 October 1945 which occurred from 2100 to 2127 hours Central Standard Time. a. Lawrence H. Truettner, aeronautical engineer & Project Engineer for Project "SLOB" b. Paul Embala, Major, UWAF ATI Investigator 2. The first indication of this occurrence was received from 2 October 1948 press reports appearing in local papers. This material is retained in KCIAJB-3 files. 3. Investigation of the sighting by the above mentioned representatives of this Command show the newspaper reports to be substantially correct. However, description of the object as a "disk" is inaccurate. All testimony from witnesses agree that one object was sighted and that it consisted only of a small round ball of clear white light with no physical form or shape attached. The object was about six to eight inches in diameter. At time it traveled faster than the 7-51 and performed circular movements in both creative and aggressive manner. When first sighted the object was traveling at about 250 KPH at 1,000 feet altitude. Under this condition the light was not continuous but blinked off and on. At higher performance the white light was continuous. 4. The pilot of the F-51 aircraft was first attracted to the object when his attention was drawn to an intermittent white light about 3,000 feet below his 4,500 ft cruising altitude. He decided to investigate and begin pursuit of the object in order to determine its nature. UNCLASSIFIED. DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS. DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD_DIR 6200.10
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