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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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1. Date 4 Aug 47 2. Time evening 3. Location NW of Bethel Alaska 4. Name of observer Capt.Jack Peck and Co-pilot Vince Daly 5. Occupation of observer Pilot and Co-pilot - Al Jones Flying Svc. 6. address of observer I/s 7. Place of observation 60° 57' N 161° 48' W 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 1200 ft 10. Time in sight 4 minutes 11. altitudo 500 to 1.000 ft 12. Spend 520 MPH - 3 times that of 0-54 13. Direction of flight 11. Tactics 2/8 15. Sound I/S 16. Size As large or larger than 0-54 17. Color black in color 18. Shape cancer - like that of C- (from rear) but without motors or flying wings. 19. Odor dotootod X/S 20. Apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions brilliant evening sky 23. Effect on clouds 2/8 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance flew rapidly out of sight 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.