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Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79
USAF Directorate of Intelligence via NICAP · 19 pages · text by OCR
Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203 is a Top Secret analysis dated 10 December 1948, prepared jointly by the USAF Directorate of Intelligence and the Office of Naval Intelligence. It reviews about 210 reported flying object incidents and concludes that some type of flying object has been observed, though its identity and origin cannot be determined. The study treats domestic devices or Soviet aircraft based on German flying-wing designs as possible explanations. It also summarizes selected sighting and radar reports.
“Sightings”10 pages
- p. 4 …THE PATTERN of sightings is definable. Sightings have been most intense throughout the states bordering the…
- p. 6 …Cigar, or pencil-shaped objects have been sighted in fewer numbers but with about equal distribution…
- p. 7 Although reported domestic incidents are widely scattered throughout the U.S., frequency of sighting and number…
- p. 8 …The evasive action employed by all objects sighted indicates not so much an attempt to avoid…
- p. 11 …This sighting occurred on 28 June 1947.
d. The following day a party of three, two…
- p. 13 …The sighting occurred near Harmon Field, Newfoundland. Two other persons also saw the trail which remained…
- p. 14 …The DC-3 was flying at 170 mph, but the disk flew out of sight in…
- p. 15 …On 17 July 1948, a report from Kirtland Air Force Base describes a sighting in the…
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minutes after the initial sighting. The same light was observed by three other witnesses from…
- p. 19 …Sounds and visual trails are not normally associated with the sightings.
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REMARKS T . J . Control Note :
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Cases discussed
- The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946 1946
strange objects first appeared over the Scandinavian countries in 1946 - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold, while flying near Tacoma, Washington, reported a formation of flying objects - Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947 1947
William Rhoads of Phoenix, Arizona allegedly saw a disk circling... took two photographs - The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
Portland, Oregon police officers reported varying numbers of disks, 7 July 1947 - The Gorman Dogfight 1948
2nd Lt. George F. Gorman... flying near Fargo, North Dakota, sighted an intermittent white light
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