1948 Fargo North Dakota Incident



The 1948 Fargo North Dakota Incident was a UFO-related event that occurred on October 1, 1948 in the skies over Fargo.

25-year old George Gorman was flying a P-51 Mustang fighter with other World War II air veterans across the country when they spotted a bright object in the skies nearby them. He moved to intercept but the small object kept moving much faster than the plane. For twenty minutes, the unidentified object played chase with Gorman, including coming straight for him at a high velocity and then breaking off 500 feet away in the opposite direction. The ball of light made a vertical climb out of his range and escaped.

Multiple witnesses on the ground and at the nearby airport control tower witnessed the event.

Project SIGN agents descended on Fargo to interview Gorman and the witnesses. They later claimed that the U.S. Air Weather Service had released a lighted weather balloon from Fargo the same evening and all official government reports on the subject have been labelled as such. Gorman and the witnesses have disputed these findings, insisting that the object was intelligently-controlled.

Operative-132 mentioned visiting Fargo North Dakota as part of his duties on UFO-related military projects like SIGN and GRUDGE, most likely referring to interviews following up on this event.

Operative-132's Recollections
While on a stakeout with FBI Agent Cooper in November 1952, Operative-132 revealed that he had previously worked on several Top-Secret military projects, specifically mentioning Project SIGN and Project GRUDGE. Because of his work on these projects, he was taken all over the country to conduct interviews and do research. Places he specifically mentioned was Fargo North Dakota, New Mexico, Lubbock Texas, and "even those Washington Nationals back in July", referring to the infamous July 1952 Washington D.C. UFO Sightings.

Despite revealing this information to Agent Cooper, when pressed for a story on the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash, O-132 laughed it off as swamp gas, temperature inversions, and/or a meteor shower.

Appearances

 * Diabolical Tales: Part I - Genesis of the Men From Within The Earth (mentioned only)

Behind The Scenes
The October 1, 1948 UFO Incident near Fargo is also known as the Gorman Dogfight and was an alleged true encounter with a UFO.

The news reports were widely reported on this incident at the time, so much that Project SIGN agents were moved into the city within a matter of hours after the event..