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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 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. 8 …all types of aircraft since 1943 and never in my life have I seen anything such…
  • p. 31 …A former vice president, he said the object was unliveable and never seen. He thought it…
  • p. 57 …She mentioned that she had never seen that before, so we stopped to look and listen…
  • p. 149 …I think it was a flying saucer as I have never seen anything equal to it…
  • p. 171 …he had seen shooting stars before but never had seen anything to compare with it) nor…
  • p. 189 …Witness states he never observed a comet which acted in this manner and was of the…
  • p. 206 …middle-aged man The boys stated that they had never before seen one of the discs.
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incident # 46

1. Date 22 June 47

2. Timo 11:30 A.M.

3. Location Greenfield, Mass

4. Name of observer Edward L. De Rose

5. Occupation of observer X/S

6. Address of observer Greenfield, Pass.

7. Place of observation Greenfield, Mass. $ 4 2^{\circ} $ 35 $ ^{\prime} $ $ 7 2^{\circ} $ 42 $ ^{\prime} $

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer B/3

10. Timo in sight eight to ten seconds

11. altitudo 1,000 +

12. Spood As fast as a speeding plane or faster

13. Direction of flight Northwesterly direction

11. Tactics Z/S

15. Sound X/8

16. Size "small"

17. Color silvery-white

18. Shape round and irregular

19. Odor detected E/S

20. apparent construction N/S - like polished aluminum

21. Exhaust trails I/S

22. Weather conditions N/S - but object reflected sunlight very strongly.

23. Effect on clouds

21. Sketches or photographs None

25. Mannor of disappearance obscured by cloud bank

26. Romarks; (over)

Cases discussed

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.