Documents / Document
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
Incident # 1. Date of Incident 1 Oct 1945 C. Time of Incident 2100 hrs 3. Place of observation Fargo, N. Dakota from plane over Fargo and vicinity 4. Name of conductor George F. Gorham 5. Connection of observer Agr Constr Co. (Pilot of F-51 in Air Matl Guard) C. Address of observer 18 Fed Hous Proj Fargo N. Dakota 7. Number of objects observed 1 C. Distance of object from observer 1000 yds 9. 21 in slight 27 minutes 10. Altitude 1000 to 1400 ft 11. So d much faster than P=51 12. Direction of flight various 13. Tactics Several left turns, one right turn, diving and climbing 14. Lichtu clear white light 15. Sound none noted 16. 51z at closest observation 6 to 8 inches 17. Color clear white 18. Shape round at all times 19. O.lor a t.ct a none 20. Apparent construction none noted 21 exhaust traile none seen 22. With r conditions C4FU 3. Eff et on cloude none 20. sketchn or photographs none 25. manner of sleep experience in steep climb 26. References: Northern lights were visible in the NE quadrant (over)
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 38 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.