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.
“Hamilton”5 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date 10 Jan kg (see reverse side of sheet) Incident # 50
2. Timo 10 1%
3. Location Wildwood, X. J. (39° 00' E & 78° 48' W)
L. Name of observer Mrs. Ethel Evans
5. Occupation of observer authority on knitting
6. Address of observer Bellvue Apts, Wildwood, K. J.
7. Place of observation 101 Pine Ave. Wildwood (home of Mrs. Krueger)
8. Number of objects 1 which split into 2 pieces
9. Distance of object from observer undetermined
10. Time in sight 5-3 seconds
11. altitude varying - slow descent
12. Speed alow
13. Direction of flight shoreward (270 $ ^{\circ} $ )
11. Tactics broke into two pieces
15. Sound None
16. Size 1amplight
17. Color yellow, red or amber-colored
18. Shape oval - tear drop
19. Odor detected I/S
20. Apparent construction I/S
21. Exhaust trails none
22. Weather conditions Clear night
23. Effect on clouds E/S
24. Sketches or photographs Forwarded a picture of Mars published in "Life" which showed an orange-red ball
25. Fanner of disappearance fell into sea
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.