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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.

Incident # 145 1. Date 9 July 1948 2. Time 1205 AST 3. Location Fielding Lake 4. Name of observers 1st Lt Dominick J. Caramia & Thomas B. Carpenter 5. Occupation of observer s(VLR) Photo 6. Address of observers 72nd RCN Squadron (VLR) Photographic c/o APO 731. c/o Postmaster Seattle Washington 7. Place of observation Fielding Lake, Alaska (63°11'-145°40' W 8. Number of objects Approximately 20 9. Distance of object from observer 5,000+ above 10. Timo in sight 5 seconds or less 11. Altitude 5,000+ immediately below the clouds 12. Spood over 500 MPH 13. Diroction of flight From MNW to ESE 14. Tactics Jockeyed back and forth in the ground formation (gave impression of shotgun blast pattern) but maintained straight course. 15. Sound Loud roaring sound heard (thought it was strong wind) before 16. Size dot objects were sighted; sound sharpened into a buzz as they approached and passed. 17. Color grayish black 18. Shapo Spheroid or disc-shaped 19. Odor detected N/5 20. Apparent construction N/5 21. Exhaust trails none visible 22. Weather conditions bright and sunny $ w / 1 0 ^ { \frac { 5 } { 1 0 } } $ strato-cumulus cloud coverage 23. Effect on clouds none - flew immediately below them 24. Sketches or photographs sketch 25. Mannor of disappearance N/3 26. Romarks: The objects resembled a group of dots, grayish black in color and numbering about 20. They were plainly visible and either spheroid or disc shaped. They appeared to be jockeying back and (over)

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