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.
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incidort # 2a 1. Date 8 July 1947 2. Time Approximately noon 3. Location Lurco Army Air Field, Lurco, California. 6. Name of observer Col Gilkey to Capt Black 5. Occupation of observer Commanding Officer, Murco Army air Field, Calif. 6. Address of observer Murco AAF, Murco, California. 7. Fluid of observation Ground 6. Number of objects one (1) 9. Distance of object from observer not stated 16. Time in sight not stated 11. altitude not stated 12. Speed not stated 15. Direction of flight not stated 16. Tactics The object Gol Gilkey saw he stated he believed at the time to be paper and of no significance or the object not important enough to be rep- 15. scried. SOUND not stated 16. Size not stated 17. Color not stated 16. Shape not stated 19. Odor detected not stated 20. apparent construction 21. Exhaust trails not stated 22. Weather conditions not stated 23. Effect on clouds not stated 2h. Sketches or photographs none 25. Nanner of disappearance not stated 26. Romarks: The following is a statement given orally by Colonel Gilkey to Captain Harry D. Black, Intelligence officer on 11 August 1947. Colonel Gilkey, stated that the object he saw, he relieved at the time to be paper and of no significance or tthe objects not important enough to be report There was nothing clearly enough seen by the Colonel to make any further
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.