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.
“Gray”5 pages
1. Date 6 July 47
2. Time 20:5 hours
3. Location Birningham, Alabama
J. Name of observer Staff. Sergeant Ira L. Livingston
5. Occupation of observer S/Sgt. w/250 hours as Pilot and Arcorer Gunner
6. Address of observer 1354 Meadow Lane, Green Acres, Birmingham, Ala.
7. Place of observation As above $ 3 3^{\circ} $ $ 3 3^{\prime} $ $ 8 6^{\circ} $ $ 5 2^{\prime} $
8. Number of objects 7 to 10
9. Distance of object from observer Undetermined
10. Time in sight /S
11. Altitudo 2000 ft above horizon at 45 angle
12. Speed 500 to 600 MPH
15. Direction of flight Southeast
14. Tactics vertical ascent - traveled in arco
15. Sound none
16. Size 2 ft in diameter
17. Color B/s
18. Shapo round
19. Oder detected x/s
20. Apparent construction I/S
21. Exhaust trails x/s
22. Weather conditions E/S
23. Effect on clouds
24. Skotches or photographs all one photograph
25. manner of disappearance E/S
26. Romarks: (over) 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.