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.
“Norfolk”2 pages
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incidort # 48a 1. Date 7 22 48 2. Time 1925 o'clock 3. Location Clinton County Air Field 4. Name of observer LeRoy Ziugler 5. Occupation of observer I/3gt 6. Address of observer Clinton County AF, Wilmington, Ohio 7. Place of observation Clinton County AF B. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer E/S 10. Time in sight Thirty-five minutes 11. Altitudo high 12. Speed stationary for a while and then made rapid ascents and descents and then to SW with great speed 13. Direction of flight 13. Direction of flight to SW 14. Tactics Vertical ascents and descents at great speed 15. Sound None 16. Size very large 17. Color Same as star 18. Shape circular - starlike - only larger 19. Odor dotooted 2/3 20. Apparent construction B/$ 21. Exhaust trails faint exhaust trail when moving up and down or from 22. side to side 22. Weather conditions Cloudy 23. Effect on clouds Object could be seen turn clouds 24. Skotohos or photographs None 25. Mannor of disappearance over the horizon at about 20:00 26. Romarks: (Over)
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.