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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 119 …Color gray 18. Shapo elliptical 19. Odor detected N/8 20. Apparent construction E/S 21…
  • p. 190 …Manner of disappearance disappeared in puff of dark gray smoke 26. Romarks: (over)
  • p. 191 …Upon reaching a 1200 position it was engulfed in a puff of dark gray smoke about…
  • p. 211 …Color Light gray 18. Shape circular 19. Odor dotcetod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/3…
  • p. 212 …Due to their speed he could see only that they were circular and possibly light gray…

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A strange phenomenon was witnessed early Monday morning, Oct 13, blazing its way through the heavens between 5:00 and 5:30 a.m. The ball as described by W. Farion was a flaming luminous mass with an orange-tinted wake. The tail left by this object was made up of smoke as well as of flames. This "celestial invader" described as being about the size of a baseball was reported to have passed rather slowly from west to east.

Corroborated account: M. Parion, Barry Lipsett and Jim Park.

Cases discussed

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.