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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.
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 11 July 47 2. Time X/8 3. Location Elmendorf Fld., Anchorage, Alaska 1. Name of observer Col Bruce H. Perry & Maj Wm E. Gayser 5. Occupation of observer 59th Airways & ACS Group 6. Address of observer Mendorf fld (59th Airways & ACS Group) 7. Place of observation 61° 10' N-148° 0' W 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Time in sight I/5 11. altitudo E/$ 12. Spood great 13. Direction of flight South 11. Turtles X/S 15. Sound B/S 16. Size Three ft in diameter 17. Color aluminium 18. Shape round 19. Odor dotectod E/S 20. Apparent construction aluminum 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions E/S 23. Effect on clouds E/S 21. Skotches or photographs I/S 25. Manner of disappearance I/S 26. Romarks: Object resembling an aluminium colored balloon about three feet in diameter was seen at an undetermined altitude flying at great speed in a north to south direction.
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.