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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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-0Lb CONFIDENTIAL Witness Statement: Objects first looked like large stars. They seemed to be at a very great distance and appeared to be about the size of an ash tray. There were approximately six or seven of them in a formation that resembled the shape of the big dipper. Did not have a definite shape individually but just seemed to be a group of spots glittering in the sky. They were gold in color and seemed to be just hanging in the sky. The sky was clear and blue and the sun was shining but do not believe the gold color caused by a reflection of the sun. Corroborated by truck driver but/witness could not obtain his name. CONFIDENTIAL

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.