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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 Incidunt # 39 1. Date 9 July 47° 2. Time Between 11:15 and 11:40 3. Location Grand Falls, Newfoundland 4. Name of observer Eric Journey 5. Occupation of obgvor Constable 6. Address of observer Newfoundland Constabulary. Grand Falls 7. Place of observation Grand Falls. 8. Number of objects 5. 4 seem at first 1. later 9. Distance of object from observer B/S 11. Altitude E/S 10. Time in sight brief period 12. Spood terrifle 15. Direction of flight First four - fliting in easterly direction Last object: E/S 11. Tactics Maintained formation - flew side by side, last one: Flew in a rocking motion 15. Sound N/S 16. Size about size of barrel head 17. Color B/S - seemed phosphorescent 18. Shape round - about size 19. Oder detected X/8 20. Apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails E/2 However, there appeared to be a phosphorescent glow about it 22. Weather conditions I/8 23. Effect on clouds B/B 24. Sketohos or photographs 25. Manner of disappearance I/8 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.