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 7 Jan 48 2. Time between 7:20 and 7:55 P.M. 3. Location Milminton, Ohio 4. Name of observer s Gale F. Walter, James Hudson M/Sgt Irvin H. Lewis, S/Sgt John P. Haug, Sgt Harold E. Olvis & T/Sgt 5. Occupation of observer Control Tower operators Leroy Ziegler and 4 members of the alert crew 6. Address of observer Clinton County Air Base 7. Place of observation Clinton County AP Base Control Tower 5. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Tino in sight 35 minutes 11. altitudo I/S 12. Speed terrific bursts of speed 13. Direction of flight SW 11h. Tactics hung suspended in the air at intervals and then gained and lost altitude at seemingly terrific bursts of speed 15. Sound B/S 16. Sizo X/S 17. Color red 18. Shapo gone 19. Odor dotoetod N/S 20. Apparent construction "fire" 21. Exhaust trails gaseous green mist 22. Weather conditions Heavy layer of clouds 23. Effect on clouds intense brightness of sky phenomena pierced thru a heavy layer of clouds passing intermittently over the area 24. Skotches or photographs BONE 25. Nanner of disappearance disappeared over horizon 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.