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box Incident Summaries 101-172

U.S. Department of War · 178 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. NARA Record Group 38, catalogue id 143685. Each of these incident summaries 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 1. Date 28 July 1948 Incident # 148 2. Time 0400 3. Location Springfield, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mrs. Rose Henry 5. Occupation of observer Housewife 6. Address of observer 826 Dibert Avenue, Springfield, Ohio 7. Place of observation 826 Dibert Ave., Springfield, Ohio 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight 1st time: 5 minutes; 2d time: 15 minutes 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed Remained nearly stationary 13. Direction of flight N/S 14. Tactics Hovering 15. Sound Witness thought she heard sound of plane before she sighted object 16. Size About the size of a basketball 17. Color Intense yellow 18. Shape Round 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. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Faded away 26. Remarks: See attached

Cases discussed

The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) 1913
meteoric procession which crossed Toronto in February 1913; LaPaz calls it genuinely meteoric
The Maury Island Incident 1947
deaths of two officers bringing material from discs, accident over Maury Island, June 1947
The Mantell UFO Incident 1948
Lt. Mantell pursued a flying disc on January 7, 1948 near Ft. Knox, killed
The Gorman Dogfight 1948
Incident 172, 1 Oct 1948, Fargo, George F. Gorman, F-51 pilot, 27 minutes

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Official release, 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. 178 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.