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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.

RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 103 1. Date 18 February 1948 2. Time 1500 MST 3. Location [redacted] Air near Green River Utah 4. Name of observers Capt. Howard H. Berodt - Capt Maurice T. Ritenour (See Inc 102 - corroboration) 5. Occupation of observer Pilots 6. Address of observer 718th Bomb Sq, 28th Bomb Gp (VH) Weaver AFB, S.D. 7. Place of observation 39° N - 100° W - Near Green River, Utah 8. Number of objects One 9. Distance of object from observer 100 miles 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 20,000 feet 12. Speed Very high 13. Direction of flight Southeast (of Limon, Colorado) 14. Tactics Explosion rate 15. Sound Could not be determined due to B-29 engine noise 16. Size Huge (Seen 100 miles west of the B-29's) 17. Color Multi-colored ball of fire 18. Shape High multi-colored ball of fire and dense cloud of smoke followed 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Vapor trail with a ball of fire at the head of trail 22. Weather conditions Clear 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: [redacted] - Same as incident 102 which see RESTRICTED

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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.