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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Incident # 147 1. Date 27 July 48 2. Time 2200 3. Location Springfield, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mrs. H. H. Gibson 5. Occupation of observer Housewife 6. Address of observer 1217 East Main St. 7. Place of observation Springfield, Ohio 8. Numbor of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight 3 seconds 11. Altitude Great height 12. Spood That of a jet plane 13. Direction of flight north 1h. Tactics None - traveled in straight line 15. Sound None 17. Color N/S 16. Size Witness stated object resembled "huge ball" 18. Shape Round 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Bright red tail of fire 22. Weather conditions Some thunder and lighting 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Flew out of sight 26. Romarks: (over)

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.