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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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Major Edward Grahan and some unidentified officers of the Alaskan Command observed a greyish balloon approximately 10 feet in diameter in the vicinity of Elmendorf Fld. flying in a NW direction following the contour of the mountains five miles away. The object was reported as flying at an altitude of 1500 feet at an estimated rate of 100 MPH; paralleling the course of a 0-42 landing into a 20-mile per hour wind.

NOTE: See also incidents 41 and 38. (Info extracted from wkly Intel Summary ATC 16 July 1947)

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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.