High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gorman UFO Dogfight was a widely-publicized UFO incident. It occurred on October 1, 1948 in the skies over Fargo, North Dakota, and involved George F. Gorman, a pilot with the North Dakota National Guard. In 1956, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote in his bestselling and influential The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects that the Gorman Dogfight was one of three "classic" UFO incidents in the late forties that "proved to intelligence specialists that UFO`s were real." Ruppelt himself, however, supported the notion that the UFO was in fact a weather balloon.