Project Blue Book

Single panel intelligence dossier image for the October 1 1948 Gorman Dogfight rendered in muted late-1940s night color showing a 1948 F-51D Mustang fighter banking hard in pursuit over the lights of Fargo North Dakota at night with a lone pilot inside while ahead and above it a single small clear-white perfectly round ball of light with crisp edges turns mid-maneuver leaving a faint curving trail, with the tiny lit shape of a Piper Cub below and the glow of the Hector Field control tower with a figure at the window establishing the multiple witnesses, and HUD overlays marking the small round white light six to eight inches apparent with no edge fuzz, its blinking-then-steady behavior and sharp banks and head-on passes, its out-climbing and out-turning of the F-51 with no sound or trail, the most credible identification as a lighted balloon plus pursuit geometry, the tower-with-binoculars and two-person Piper Cub witnesses, the NL nocturnal light classification, the pilot Lieutenant George Gorman and multiple witnesses, the Project Blue Book and LIFE 1952 and Prairie Public sources, and the Explained lighted-balloon status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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North Dakota Sightings

1948: The Gorman Dogfight

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 26, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1948: The Gorman Dogfight Lieutenant George F. Gorman had stayed up to log a little night flying...

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Dossier-style illustration of the 1965 Edwards Air Force Base incident showing a control tower operator watching luminous objects over the runway as an interceptor taxis below

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California Sightings

1965: Edwards AFB visited by UFOs – The Incident

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT 1965: Edwards Air Force Base Visited by UFOs — “The Incident” On the night of October 7, 1965, Air...

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Oklahoma Sightings

1965: Tulsa, Oklahoma UFO Photograph

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: January 22, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT Date: August 2, 1965 Sighting Time: 1:30 AM Day/Night: Night Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Urban or Rural: -Urban Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light)...

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Dossier-style 1950 daytime scene at a Great Falls, Montana baseball field showing Nick Mariana raising a 16mm movie camera at two bright silvery rotating discs in the sky as his secretary watches, with the Anaconda smokestack behind, marked two witnesses, DD, Unexplained contested

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Montana Sightings

1950: The Great Falls, Montana UFO Film

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 11, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP|ENTITY SIGHTINGS REPORT 1950: The Great Falls, Montana UFO Film (Nicholas Mariana) It is one of the oldest pieces of motion-picture footage...

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Digital illustration of the 1952 West Palm Beach UFO encounter: Scoutmaster Sonny Desvergers and boy scouts witness a massive gray disc emitting a red mist in a dark Florida forest.

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Florida Sightings

1952: West Palm Beach, Florida Sighting

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: January 26, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT Date: August 19 1952 Sighting Time: 2145 Day/Night: Night Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Urban or Rural: Rural Hynek...

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1952: Several groups of UFOs fly over witnesses

1948: The Gorman Dogfight

1965: Edwards AFB visited by UFOs – The Incident

1965: Tulsa, Oklahoma UFO Photograph

1950: The Great Falls, Montana UFO Film

1952: West Palm Beach, Florida Sighting

1952: Crash in Western Utah

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1949: The Holloman AFB Sighting — Dr. Donald Menzel

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1948: The Estimate of the Situation — The Document That Was Burned