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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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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Data 29 July 47 2. Time 1450 3. Location Hamilton Fld., Calif h. Name of observer Capt William H. Ryherd 5. Occupation of observer Capt, USF. - Assistant Operations Officer 6. address of observer am.1ton 11d 7. Place of observation darilton, Fl. . Calif. 38° 03' N 122° 31' W 6. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer observe from ground 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 8,000 - 10,000 ft 12. Speed very fast - make P=80 look as if it were motionless 15. Direction of flight Southward toward Oakland 15. Tactics 1st object pursued horizontal flight; 2d object seemed to be going from left to right and right to left 15. Sound like guard in aircraft formation 16. Size 15-25 ft in diameter 17. Color white shiny 18. Shop circular like a ball 19. Odor detected X/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear 23. Effect on clouds B/S 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Mannor of disappearance Disappeared in flight 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.