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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 1. Date 12 July 1947 Incident # 12 2. Timo 1490 3. Location Elmendorf Fld., Anchorage Alaska 1. Name of observer Maj Edward Graham 5. Occupation of observer USAF 6. Address of observer 59th Airways and Communications Group 7. Place of observation Elmendorf Fld. (61° 10' N 148° 0' W) 9. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 5 miles away 10. Time in sight several minutes 11. Altitudo 1,500 ft 12. Speed 100 MPH 13. Direction of flight 1h. Tactics E/S 15. Sound H/S 16. Size 10 feet in diameter 17. Color grayish balloon 18. Shr.po round 19. Odor dotootod / $ 20. Apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions I/5 23. Effect on clouds I/S 24. Skotehos on photographs Zone 25. Mannor of disappearance B/B 26. Romarks: (ever)
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.