38 143685 box7 Incident Summaries 101 172

Summary

A 178-page Department of War box and folder rollup of incident summaries 101-172, with text extracted from only the first 20 pages. The pages contain "Check-list - Unidentified Flying Objects" forms, beginning with incident number 101, dated 18 February 1948 at Norton, Kansas, drawn from an account by Norton editor M. R. Srehbiel published in a newspaper. The entry describes one mushroom-shaped, bluish-white object of apparent meteor construction, ending in disintegration and an explosion, with a photograph of the vapor trail. Remarks cite Oscar Monnig of the Texas Observers, Amateur Astronomy, of Fort Worth, reporting recovered meteorite fragments including a 109-pound achondrite dug from a clover field. Coverage stops at the OCR'd pages and does not represent the full record.