Documents / Report
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-LST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 1' October 1947 Incidunt # 57 2. Time 1200 3. Location Phoenix, Arizona 4. Name of observer J. L. Clark 5. Occupation of observer line owner (Pilot) 6. Address of observer Route 12, Box 531, Phoenix 7. Place of observation at a mine located approx. 11 miles north or Northeast of Cave Creek. Arizona 9. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 25 degree angle 10. Time in sight 45 seconds to 1 minute 11. altitude 6/10,000 feet 12. Speed 350 miles an hour 13. Direction of flight northwest toward the southeast 14. Turtles Not stated 15. Sound No noise 16. Size about 3 feet in diameter 17. Color Reddish cast when the object had a blue for background. Black when it had a white cloud for a background 18. Shapo resembled a flying wing 19. Odor dotooted Not stated 20. Apparent construction Not stated 21. Exhaust trails Not stated 22. Weather conditions Not stated with the exception of some clouds 23. Effect on clouds Not stated 24. Skotohos or photographs None 25. Mannor of disappearance Not stated 26. Romarks: (Over)
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.