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.
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Dato 12 Sept 47
2. Time 45 minutes after sunset
3. Location Midway Island to Oahu - beyond Necker Island
1. Name of observer Capt Stanley S. Griffin &
5. Occupation of obgorvor Pilot and 2d officer, PAA
6. Address of observer N/S
7. Place of observation Beyond Necker Island (23° 34' N 164° 42' W)
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer 1 mile
10. Time in sight Six seconds
11. Altitude 9,500 to 10,000 ft
12. Speed 1160 MPH (1000 knots)
13. Direction of flight $ 3 5 0^{\circ} $ then $ 1 0 9^{\circ} $
14. Tactics Abruptly changed course but observed horizontal flight holding altitude
15. Sound H/S
16. Sizo M/S
17. Color E/S (See below - exhaust)
18. Shapo N/S
19. Odor dottoed B/S
20. Apparent construction I/8
21. Exhaust trails N/S - light the color of an incandescent light without appreciable blue & no reddish tinge
22. Weather conditions dark - 15 minutes after sunset
23. Effect on clouds No effect on clouds
24. Skotohos or photographs Zone
25. Manner of disappearance Appeared to burn out 30 miles ahead of PA plane
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.