The Gorman Incident: Fighter Pilot Who Dogfought a UFO

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On October 1, 1948, Second Lieutenant George Gorman was flying a P-51 Mustang over Fargo, North Dakota, when he spotted a brilliant light moving through the night sky. What began as an attempt to identify an unknown object turned into a nearly 27-minute aerial pursuit. Gorman later said the object accelerated, climbed, turned, evaded his attempts to intercept it, and even appeared to make passes directly toward his aircraft. Gorman UFO Dogfight Gorman was not the only witness. Pilots aboard a nearby Piper Cub and personnel at Fargo's Hector Airport also reported seeing the mysterious light. The incident attracted the attention of Project Sign, one of the U.S. Air Force's earliest investigations into unidentified flying objects. Investigators eventually pointed toward a weather balloon, Jupiter, and the difficulty of judging distance and movement against a dark, featureless sky. Gorman remained convinced that what he encountered behaved as though it were under intelligent control. Gorma

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