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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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CONFIDENTIAL CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 155 1. Date 1630 31 July 48 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 8. Number of objects 6 or 7 9. Distance of object from observer Very great distance away 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S - very great 12. Speed Hovering 13. Direction of flight N/S 14. Tactics Hovering -hanging in the sky 15. Sound N/S - 16. Size of an ash tray 17. Color gold 18. Shape 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 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: (over) CONFIDENTIAL 97

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.