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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 Incident # 58 1. Dato 24 June 47 2. Time afternoon 3. Location Casc de Mts. (Portland, Oregon 1. Name of observer Fred A. Johnson- 5. Occupation of observer Prospector 6. Address of observer Globe Hotel, 16 N. W. 1st Ave, Portland, 7. Place of observation Cascade Mts 6. Number of objects 5 or 6 9. Distance of object from observer overhe d at 1,000 ft 10. Time in sight 1.5 = 60 seconds 11. Altitud 6,000 ft from sea level 12. Spood N/S 15. Direction of flight 11. Tactics banking 15. Sound none 16. Size about 30' dia 17. Color N/S 18. Shapo round with tail 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N 3 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Wonthor conditions Clear 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.