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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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RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 105 1. Date 8 Mar 48 2. Time 1100 3. Location Belmont, N. C. 4. Name of observer Mr. A. C. Morrison 5. Occupation of observer Supt. Meter Dept, Duke Power Co., Charlotte, N. C. 6. Address of observer Charlotte, N. C. (Duke Power Co.) 7. Place of observation Belmont, N. C. (Sighted from ground) 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight about 10 seconds 11. Altitude N/S - could not be estimated 12. Speed Around 600 MPH 13. Direction of flight Easterly 14. Tactics None - moved in straight line at constant speed without change in altitude or direction 15. Sound None 16. Size From a distance - that of a small coin 17. Color bright or silver - looked metallic 18. Shape round or sphere (unable to determine which) 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction Metallic 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear with scattered white clouds 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance behind small white cloud 26. Remarks: (over) RESTRICTED

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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