Documents / Report
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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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1. Date 29 June 1947 2. Tina 1645 - 4:45 P.M. 3. Location 7 miles out of Clarion Iowa in direction Of Mason City, Iowa 1. Name of observer Dale Bays 5. Occupation of obqorver End been bus driver 6. address of observer Box 12, Crocker, Mo. 7. Place of observation 7 miles out of Clarion - 42° 43' N - 93° 14' W 8. Number of objects 5 in first group; 13 in second 9. Distance of object from observer I/8 10. Time in sight several minutes 11. altitud 1200 ft 12. Spood 300 MPH 13. Direction of flight South by Southeast and North Northwest 11. Tactics Objserved single file 15. Sound sound like that of an electric motor or dynamo 16. Size From 175 to 250 ft in diameter by 12 feet in thickness 17. Color "dirty" white 16. Shape between a circle and an oval - inverted saucer 19. Oder detected 1/8 20. apparent construction E/S 21. Exhaust trails B/8 22. Weather conditions 4/8 23. Effect on clouds I/$ 2h. Sketches or photographs I/8 25. Kanner of disappearance I/S 26. Romarks: (over)
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.