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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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1. Date 7 Jan 48 2. Timo 1920 to 1950 3. location Clinton County Army Air Fld., Wilmington, O. 1. Name of observer Mr. Ralph L. Stirr 5. Occupation of observer U/S 6. Address of observer Clinton County AAB 7. Place of observation Clinton County AAB 9. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Seemed to be at first some 4,000 ft high 10. Time in sight E/S 11. Altitude 4,000 ft 12. Spood movement slow in appearance 13. Direction of flight approx the west 14. Tactics described are from point first seen to horizon 15. Sound /8 16. Size X/S 17. Color fire-colored 18. Shape B/S 19. Odor detected I/S 20. Apparent construction "fire" 21. Exhaust trails none -"left no trails or tails like a meteor or comet" 22. Weather conditions clear to scattered 23. Effect on clouds Mr. Light could be seen when clouds passed beneath it. 24. Sketches or photographs none 25. Mannor of disappearance due west over horizon 25. 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.