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 # 170 1. Date Around 5 May 48 2. Time N/S 3. Location Adapazari, Turkey 4. Name of observer N/S - taken from telecon Item extracted from Turkish newspaper "Yeni Sabah", Istanbul, 5 May 48 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer See above 7. Place of observation Village near Adapazari, Turkey 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 650 feet 12. Speed N/S 13. Direction of flight N/S 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color "shining" 18. Shape N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance exploded 26. Remarks: Investigation now under way and the debris will be inspected by experts. 114

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.