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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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Some people suggest that these might be rockets. Information received from au thorized circles reveals that such a thing passed over Adspazari and was seen to explode in the air. Parts of it fell into a village nearby and killed a sheep dog. The thing was found to be a rocket and the debris will be inspected by experts. Obers End Quote". Observers say that the rocket which is claimed to have come from the northwest was flying at an altitude of 200 meters over Adapazari before it fell. According to rumors, it is possible that the rocket is connected with the "flying disc" experiments being conducted by the Russians at the station on Mt. Alagoz close to the Eastern frontiers. Source: NA Ankara, Turkey, 10 May 1948, Serial S6-48, Eval F-0 Comment: Air Attache, Ankara, Turkey has been requested to investigate this incident fully and encourage Turkish General Staff to do likewise. Whether incident can be confirmed or not Air Attache has been directed to determine sources for information contained in Yeni Sabah article.

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.