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.
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 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.