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This combined Project Sign file, drawn from USAF records, documents the 1 October 1948 encounter over Fargo, North Dakota, in which Air National Guard pilot 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman chased a small round white light in his F-51 for 27 minutes. The file holds checklists, interrogation reports by Major Paul Kubala of the ATI Field Office at Wright-Patterson, tower witness statements, Geiger readings on the aircraft and press clippings. It concludes that Gorman's statements should be accepted as truth until proven wrong.
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Field Investigation Report Subject: "Geiger Radioactivity Check of P-51 #511435 Air National Guard, Fargo, North Dakota 3. Conference held between Major Carl E. Lindstrand, Chief, Electronics Section, Mr. Lawrence H. Truettner, Aeronautical Engineer, Chief of Guided Missiles Branch, Mr. Loedding, Technical Assistant to MCIA and the under-signed officer culminated in the expressed opinion by Major Lindstrand, that pending the complete analysis of the acquired data, positive indications of excessive radioactivity in the subject airplane would have been thirty to forty times that recorded. 2 Incl: 1. Original graph of Geiger reading 2. Chart of Geiger Readings on F-51 Craft APPROVED: C. Griffith ROBERT R. SNEIDER C. A. GRIFFITH Robert Dawidier Chief, Operations Section Captain, USAF Tech Intelligence Division Intelligence Department CONFIDENTIAL -3 EXHIBIT "J" hypersotpyo
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