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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.
“Gorman”17 pages
# CONFIDENTIAL
a. From the psychological aspect, is it or is it not possible for an object without appreciable shape or known aeronautical configuration (and which appears to possess sensing capabilities) to appear to travel at variable speeds and maneuver intelligently.
b. From the technical analysis standpoint, to what degree is it possible to draw upon rumored present-day attainments (foreign or domestic) in the fields of equipment, propulsion, fuels, electronics (radar control) atomic research and any other applicable field, to account for the aforestated flying characteristics attributed this small missile.
c. To what degree does ball lightning phenomena proximate the flying characteristics attributed this missile.
d. From the aero-medical viewpoint, to what degree is it possible for a human being (utilizing presurized cabins, flying equipment, etc.) to accomplish the reported abrupt turns and extreme degrees of ascent at terrific speeds described in the foregoing.
c. Is it plausible to assume possible inter-planetary visitations.
CONCLUSIONS:
It is concluded that Lt. Gorman's statements, appended hereto as evidence, be accepted as truth until any part thereof is proven wrong or inaccurate.
3 Incls:
1. Exhibit "A"
2. Exhibit "B"
Colbert C Ancilles
3. Exhibit "C"
HOBERT R. SWEIDER
Captain, USAF
APPROVED:
Waltulfth
C. A. GRIFFITH
Chief, Operations Section
Tech Intelligence Division
Intelligence Department
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