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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Date 7 Jul 1947 2. Time 10:10 3. Location Muroc Army air Field, Muroc, California. 1. Name of observer Major J. C. wise, 5. Occupation of observer Test Pilot 5. Address of observer Muroc AAF, Muroc, California. 7. Place of observation Ground - Poroo AAF, Auroc, California 10. Number of objects One (1) 9. Distance of object from observer Off to the north about 10,000 to 12,000 feet altitude. 10. Time in sight not stated 11. altitude 10,000 to 12,000 feet 12. Spend 200 to 225 kPH 13. Direction of flight heading from west to east 1b. Tactics Oscillating in a forward whirling movement without losing altitude. 15. Sound not stated 16. Size Five (5) to (10) feet in diameter 17. Color yellowish white 18. Shape sphere 19. Oder detected not stated 20. apparent construction assumed at first to be a weather balloon 21. Exhaust trails not stated 22. Weather conditions not stated 23. Effect on clouds not stated 24. Skotehos or photographs none 25. Manner of disappearance not stated 26. Romarks:
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.