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Sightings From Aircraft or spacecraft

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The Gorman/Fargo, ND Incident
Fargo, North Dakota
October 1, 1948

Updated: Sept 12, 2007
Francis Ridge:

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote in his book (The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects)  that it was just a matter of days after the top secret Estimate of the Situation was signed, sealed, and sent on its way, that the third big sighting of 1948 took place. This was the famous Fargo, ND case, one of the cases  "that 'proved' to ATIC's intelligence analysts that UFOs were real." Small lights in the sky are easy prey for the skeptics, until one reads the details of the reports. This is not only unexplained, it's a good report supporting the existence of a type of object that has become known as a probes. Documents found recently (see USAF SIGN3-2 below) state the object detected the approaching F-51 and took evasive action.

George Gorman:
"I can tell you this much, because it's been mentioned in print. There was thought behind every move the light made. It wasn't any radar-responder gadget making it veer away from my ship."


The Gorman/Fargo, ND Case Report (3 pages) - Richard Hall
The Gorman Case - (extract from FSAR) (5 pages) - Donald Keyhoe
The Gorman Letter (2 pages) - Francis Ridge and Wendy Connors
Letter to Chief of Staff from Col. McCoy dated 7 Oct 1948 (2 pages) - FUFOR/Richard Hall

BB Archive search turns up 55 "results" for "Gorman" - Fran Ridge
BB Archive search turns up twelve "results" for "Fargo, 1948" - Francis Ridge
MAXW-PBB4 685-701 - Check Lists - Incident 172 - Gorman (18 pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4-721 - Memo From Sneider to Money - Incident #172, Fargo, ND (1 page) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 742 - Routing & Record Sheet (1 page) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 744-750 - Oct 1, 1948; Fargo, ND, Sign Interrogates Witnesses - (8 pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 751-760 - Oct. 1, 1948; Field Investigation Report - (9 pages) Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 764-767 - Essential Elements of Information / Gorman File (4 pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 768-770 - Agent Sherry Report - Fargo, ND Incident - (5 pages) Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 771-772 - Letter to Commanding General, HQ ND ANG, Fargo, ND (2 pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 774-777 - Newspaper Articles - Gorman Case (3 pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 702-704 - Comic Book Version Found in BB Files (3 pages) - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB4 706-711 - The Gorman "Dogfight" / Donald Menzel (7 pages) - Dan Wilson
USAF-SIGN3-2-39 -  Re: 30-32,  Object Detected Approaching F-51 (38 pages) - Fran Ridge

The P-51 Mustang

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