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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. 31 …FLAKING SEA, NOISE LACKING. First to report in were Patrolmen Walter Lirey and Robert Bills in…
  • p. 46 …The port will be located in a place with a good view of the sea and…
  • p. 111 …Place of observation At sea, 20 miles offshore, 40 miles south of Cape Blanco, Oregon 8…
  • p. 146 …Fanner of disappearance fell into sea 26. Romarks: (over)
  • p. 148 …Manner of disappearance fell into sea 26. Remarks: (over)
  • p. 159 …A long chase ensued commencing over the North Sea about 50 miles from the Dutch Coast…
  • p. 192 …Altitud 6,000 ft from sea level 12. Spood N/S 15. Direction of flight 11…
  • p. 193 While prospecting in the Cascade Mts some 5,000 ft above sea level he noticed a…
  • p. 217 …Direction of flight NW toward sea 14. Tactics revolved 15. Sound N/S 16. Siao N…
  • p. 218 …moving in a northwesterly direction toward the sea. He observed the object several minutes during which…
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)

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.