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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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On 4 July 48 at approx. 11:15 P.M., OST, witness and his wife thought they saw a star moving. There was a light in the sky the same color and size of a star which was moving. Then they thought it was a plane but it made no noise. The object moved across the sky, then changed its course a bit and went straight and stopped again for about 5 seconds, changed its course a bit and went straight for awhile and stopped again this time for at least 15 seconds, then it went across the sky a little ways and disappeared completely. When the object stopped in the sky, it resembled a star and only by following its course could the difference be noticed. NOTE: Witness states that he lives some 2-1/2 miles from the two woman (McKeesport, Pa.) who reported seeing a big silver plate zooming noiselessly overhead in the direction of Kennywood Park. See Inc. 161.

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.