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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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Mr Lagge asserts in his signed statement that he was certain the object was not a shooting star (asserted he had seen shooting stars before but never had seen anything to compare with it) nor was it a plane. He states it was too "lit up" and traveling at too great a speed. It wasn't on fire or it would have fallen in the water. The thing was traveling at the rate of a shooting star but much closer at an estimated height of around 6,000 ft. It was visible for some 15 seconds and came out of the northwest heading eastward. The circle seemed about the size of a barrel head and the trail appeared around 15 feet long and made the whole object resemble a cone. He states "a shooting star usually leaves a temporary streak - this object left no streak only an after-glow. The circle was a bright red, the color of a flame. The after-glow (cone-shaped) was a fainter shade. NOTE: See coxroboring evidence of Wm Evans and Albert Sarnes (60a and 60b)
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.