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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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# INCIDENT SURVEY SHEET (To be called out and retained in file Incident 2 1. Date of Observation . 8 July 1947. . . 2. Time of Observation . Approximately noon 2. Time of Observation. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted. Muroc Air Force Base, Muroc California. 4. Observer's Position. Ground (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. Maj. Richard R. Shoop. Muroc Air Force Base, Muroc California. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. Chief of Technical Engineering, Div. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By Col Gilkey. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1. 9. Size of Object(s). Pursuit Airplane. 10. Color of Object(s). Aluminum Colored Surface. 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). Unconventional Shape. 12. Nature of Luminosity. Reflected. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. Five to Eight Miles. 14. Speed of Object(s). Slowly. 15. Time in Sight. Eight Minutes. 16. Tactics. The object moved from an intermediate altitude in an oscillating fashion almost to the surface of the ground and then started climbing again. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). Not Stated. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). North. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance) Apparently metallic. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail Not stated. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. Not stated. 22. Poculiarities Noted. 23. Summary of Incident. At approx. noon 8 July 1947 Maj. Shoops, at the attention of Col Gilkey observed 5 to 8 miles to the North what appeared to be thin metallic object. It appeared to be metallic because the method in which it was flying, the 23. Summary of Incident At approx noon 8 July 1947 Maj Shope, at the attention of Col Gilkey observed 5 to 8 miles to the North what appeared to be thin metallic object. It appeared to be metallic because the method, in which it was flying, the sun was reflected from an apparently aluminum colored surface.
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.