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 # 450
1. Date 7 Jan 18
2. Time 19:30
3. Location Clinton County AAY, Wilmington, O.
h. Name of observer S/Sgt John P. Hang
5. Occupation of observer S/Sgt
6. Address of observer Clinton County AAP
7. Place of observation Control Tower
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer Around 5 miles from field
10. Time in sight 25 minutes
11. Altitude 15,000 to 20,000 ft
12. Speed H/S - apparently slow
13. Direction of flight heading of $ 2 1 0^{\circ} $
14. Tactics Moved from altitude of 15,000 ft to 10,000 ft
without noticeable forward or backward motion (about 3 or 4 times)
15. Sound B/S
16. Sizo X/S
17. Color changing colors (red and green)
18. Shapo X/8
19. Odor dotoetod I/S
20. Apparent construction X/S
21. Exhaust trails /8
22. Weather conditions overcast
23. Effect on clouds could be seen thru overcast
24. Skotchos or photographs Zone
25. Manner of disappearance disappear red over horizon on heading of 210 $ ^{ \circ} $
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.