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.
“Anderson”4 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
1. Date 20 July 1947 2. Timo 00152 3. Location About one hour from Sidney, Newfoundland 4. Name of observer Mrs Messrs Maitland, Larkin, Douglas and Hamilton 5. Occupation of observer All employees of Hamilton, Metcalfe and Kansas City Bridge Company which concern is doing construction work at Harmon Fl 6. Address of observer With above-named concern 7. Place of observation on board the "Burgeo" enroute from Sydney Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. 5. Number of objects saw flashes - 4 or 5 approximately 1 second apart and equidistant. 2. Distance of object from observer N/3 10. Time in sight N'S 11. Altitude B/S 30° off horizon an estimated 1/4 mile range 12. Speed high velocity - faster than tracer bullet 13. Direction of flight NNE (30° East of true North) 11. Tactics horizontal flight 15. Sound N/S 16. Size I/3 17. Color N/S - object not seen - flashes were silvery to red in color 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor detected E/S 20. apparent construction X/S 21. Exhaust trails E/S - possibly what was observed was itself the rocket charge 22. Weather conditions Clear and dark 23. Effect on clouds I/S 24. Sketches or photographs. 25. Mannor 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.