U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172

U.S. Department of War · 210 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.

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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 147 1. Date 2. Time 3. Location 4. Name of observer Mrs. Felly C. Matthews 5. Occupation of observer 6. Address of observer: Columbia, South Carolina 7. Place of observation 8. Number of objects 9. Distance of object from observer 10. Time in sight 11. Altitude 12. Speed 13. Direction of flight 14. Tactics 15. Sound 16. Size 17. Color 18. Shape 19. Odor detected 20. Apparent construction 21. Exhaust trails 22. Weather conditions 23. Effect on clouds 24. Sketches or photographs 25. Manner of disappearance 26. Remarks: RESTRICTED 77

Cases discussed

The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) 1913
"meteoric procession" which crossed Toronto in February 1913
The Maury Island Incident 1947
accident over Maury Island, Puget Sound, around June, 1947
The Mantell UFO Incident 1948
Something like a "flying disc" was pursued by one Lt. Mantell... Mantel being killed
The Gorman Dogfight 1948
Incident 172: George F. Gorman, F-51 pursuit of white light over Fargo, 1 Oct 1948

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 99%); expect the odd misread word. 210 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.