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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 124 …Location 7 miles out of Clarion Iowa in direction Of Mason City, Iowa 1. Name of…
  • p. 125 About 7 miles out of Clarion, Iowa, observer saw an object shoot across the sky in…

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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)

Cases discussed

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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.