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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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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 8 July 1947 Incidunt # 14. 2. Time 11:50 3. Location Area # 3, Rogers Dry Lake, California. 1. Name of observer Captain John Paul Strapp 5. Occupation of observer Flight Test 6. Address of observer Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California. 7. Place of observation Observation Truck, Area #3, Rodgers Dry Lake, Calif. 8. Number of objects une (1) 9. Distance of object from observer 20,000 feet 10. Time in sight 90 seconds 11. altitude lower than 20,000 12. Speed slower than the maximum velocity 50-80 aircraft 13. Direction of flight Slightly north of due west against prevailing wind 16. Tactics rotation or oscillation of slow type (suggested by 2 fins or nobs on the upper surface which crossed each other at intervals 15. Said not stated 16. Size About 50 17. Color silvery 18. Shape resembled a parachute canopy at first then assumed ovular stage 19. Color detected not stated 20. Apparent construction It presented a distinct ovular outline, with two (2) projections on the upper surface which might have beer thick fins or nobs. These crossed each other at 21. Exhaust trails intervals, suggesting either rotation or oscillation None of slow type. 22. Weather conditions not stated 23. Effect on clouds not stated 2L. Sketches or photographs none 25. Manner of disappearance Dropped to a level such that comes into line of vision of the mountain tops. 26. Romarks:
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.