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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1. Date 31 July 48 Incident # 155 2. Time 1630 3. Location 480 N. Monroe Ave. Columbus, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mrs. Edward G. Watson 5. Occupation of observer Housewife 6. Address of observer 480 N. Monroe Ave., Columbus, Ohio 7. Place of observation Columbus, Ohio 3. Number of objects 6 or 7 9. Distance of object from observer Very great distance away 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S - very great 12. Spood Hovering 13. Direction of flight N/S 15. Tactics Hovering -hanging in the sky 15. Sound N/S - 16. Size of an ash tray 17. Color gold 18. Shapo starlike 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions CAVU - bright sunlight 23. Effect on clouds N/S 2h. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.