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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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witness any one object which split into two separate 'pieces and fall into the ocean. (See Krs Krueger's account) Wed 19, 19th, 1225 A. N. : Where stated that she saw saucer. Tryed to take picture but says object w a moving too fast. Tob 21, 1948 (Sat Night) : Reported seeing another "succer" AOR 2. 4140 P. M. Nov 11. 1918 10:50 P. M. : New mystery light drop and fall in the water (Thursday night) AIR 2d: 5:10 P. M. Apr 2 and 3: July 1st, 1948 Object resembles a small pilot-less plane - very bright metal - no motor noise and looks like the pictures of the German pilot-less planes. The center was ball shaped and very bright metal. It followed the coast line until out of sight. It came from the south and was heading north. (same time date) Object appeared to fall in water. The metal wings were small and evidently broke as it fell since it appeared like sheets of metal dropping at the side. Witness states she saw this clearly. nev guided missile of bright metal seen since 2 Aq. There is activity in Wildwood again - the saucers have been appearing since 1 July." Mrs. Evans inclosed picture shown in "Life" of the planet "Nara" which shows an orange-red ovular circle. in she writes: "there have been more 'flying saucers' which appear on very clear nights - when there is a moon. They appear to come from the SE and from the ocean. Over the island they appear unsteady - like the one that broke. Then over the land they ascend quite high and move towards the NW, disappearing at not too fast a speed." ORR: Individual appear to be "crackpot" No one (with the exception of Mrs. Krueger) appears to have seen the may sightings mentioned. This in spite of an alerted coast guard, police dept. and others.
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.