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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 4 July 1947 Incidart # 5 2. Time 1305 3. Location Portland, Oregon 6. Name of observer Kenneth A. McDowell 5. Occupation of observer Patrolman, Portland City Police 5. address of observer Portland City Police Dept., Portland, Oregon 7. Place of observation Parking lot lock of police station 8. Number of objects 5 9. Distance of object from observer 7/3 10. Time in sight N/S 11. altitudo 8/5 12. Speed Great agreed 15. Direction of flight 2 discs fling south, 3, in easterly direction 114. Tectics Dipped up and down in oscillating motion at great speed 15. Sound Bison 16. Size Large 17. Color Could not be determined 18. Shape Round - disc-shaped 19. Odor detected N/S 20. apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S - No visible means of propulsion observed 22. Weather conditions X/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 2L. Skatehos or photographs Zone 25. Manner of disappearance Quickly - before any detailed observation 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.