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. Date 12:05 P. M. 2. Time 29 July 17 3. Location 1/4 mile NW of Canyon while proceeding NW along road leading from Canyon Ferry to York - some 25 miles NE of -eleva 4. Name of observer R. J. Madlen et al 5. Occupation of observer Division Plant Engr., the Pac. Tel & Tel Co. 6. Address of observer The Pec. Tel & Tel Co. 7. Place of observation 25 NL of Helene, Montens 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 2 to 3 miles 10. Timo in sight 5 : ecac. ds + 11. Altitudo 3,000 ft 12. Spood tremendous 13. Diroction of flight NE 15. Tactics hovering - rising and descending thru vertical distance of some 50-100 ft - then swooping to the NE at tremendous speed 15. Sound N/5 16. Size 3 ft in dia x 3 or 4 inches in thickness - as seen from observer's viewpoint. - apparently nuge 17. Color like polished nickel 18. Shape circular 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparont construction like polished nickel 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions blue sky with scattered small clouds. Bright sunshine causing disc to gleam and shimmer 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance "melted into thin air" 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.