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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. 119 …Color gray 18. Shapo elliptical 19. Odor detected N/8 20. Apparent construction E/S 21…
  • p. 190 …Manner of disappearance disappeared in puff of dark gray smoke 26. Romarks: (over)
  • p. 191 …Upon reaching a 1200 position it was engulfed in a puff of dark gray smoke about…
  • p. 211 …Color Light gray 18. Shape circular 19. Odor dotcetod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/3…
  • p. 212 …Due to their speed he could see only that they were circular and possibly light gray…
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incidart # 49

1. Date 9 Jan 19

2. Time X/S

3. Location around Danville, Ky.

1. Name of observer Mr & Mrs. Marken

5. Occupation of observer X/8

6. address of observer H/S - picked up in WHO news broadcast relayed from Dunville, Ky.

7. Place of observation Danville, Ky.

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer I/S

10. Time in sight B/S

11. Altitudo Z/8

12. Speed 8/8

13. Direction of flight West

14. Tactics none

15. Sound 2/3

16. Size X/S

17. Color I/S

18. Shape pencil-shape

19. Odor detected B/S

20. Apparent construction $ / $

21. Exhaust trails long trail of smoke or exhaust

22. Weather conditions B/S

23. Effect on clouds

21. Sketches or photographs Zone

25. Manner of disappearance /exploded into a beautiful display of sparks, etc

26. Remarks: (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.