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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.
“Gray”5 pages
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incidort # 60 1. Date 10 July 47 2. Time 1000 3. Location Cordray, Newfoundland 47° 52' N 59° 21' W 4. Name of observer John P. Lagge 5. Occupation of observer Store owner - formerly foreman of Buchans-Mine & member of civilian volunteer Air Detection Corps 6. Address of observer Cordroy, Newfoundland 7. Place of observation Cordroy, Newfoundland - in front of store 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 15 seconds 11. altitude 6,000 ft 12. Speed rate of shooting star 13. Direction of flight Northwest heading eastward 14. Tactics N/5 15. Sound N/S 16. Size barrel head 17. Color bright red - color of flame 18. Shapo circle 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails left afterglow which trailed out for some 15 ft and gave the object a 22. Weather conditions a fainter shade than the circle it was clear and at 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Skotohos or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: (over)
Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.