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This U.S. Air Force compilation, released by the U.S. Department of War, holds numbered checklists and survey sheets for flying object incidents 1 through 100. It covers sightings by officers, test pilots and civilians at Muroc Army Air Field on 7 and 8 July 1947, and sightings by Portland, Oregon police on 4 July 1947. It also includes fireballs seen over California, Nevada and Oregon on 30 December 1947, a Houston fireball, and Finnish reports from January 1948.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: United States. Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 8 July 47 2. Time 10:00 3. Location Murdoc Army Air Field, Murdoc, Calif 4. Name of observer Jannette Marie Scott 5. Occupation of observer Secretary to 1st Lt J. C. McHenry. Billeting Officer 6. address of observer Muroc AAFld. Muroc, Calif. 7. Place of observation Ground - Muroe 8. Number of objects 3 - two the first time - 1 later 9. Distance of object from observer B/S 10. Time in sight B/S 11. altitude Approx 8,000 ft 12. Speed 300 to 400 mph 13. Direction of Flight Northwest - toward Hojave, Calif. 15. Tactics First 2 maintained straight horizontal course; the last performed a tight circle 15. Sound none -itness heard no drone such as would come from any aircraft 16. Size I/S 18. Shape Disc 17. Color Silver 19. Odor detected N/$ 20. Apparent construction E/S Apparently metallic 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions Sunlight 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs 25. Hanner of disappearance B/S - apparently in the distance 26. Romarks: Witness was called by Lt McHenry together with T/Sgt (over)
Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.