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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 8 …all types of aircraft since 1943 and never in my life have I seen anything such…
  • p. 31 …A former vice president, he said the object was unliveable and never seen. He thought it…
  • p. 57 …She mentioned that she had never seen that before, so we stopped to look and listen…
  • p. 149 …I think it was a flying saucer as I have never seen anything equal to it…
  • p. 171 …he had seen shooting stars before but never had seen anything to compare with it) nor…
  • p. 189 …Witness states he never observed a comet which acted in this manner and was of the…
  • p. 206 …middle-aged man The boys stated that they had never before seen one of the discs.
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)

Cases discussed

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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.