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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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John Snyder, a former pilot of B-24 in the Army Air Corps advised that he was sitting on the steps of nishome around 10:45 P.M. the night of Aug 6, 1947 and that his neighbors, the Kelly family, were also sitting on their steps. All parties were facing east. Snyder noticed an object which emitted a blue-white flame pass quickly thru the air. It was travelling NE to SW. Using his experience In the Army Air Corps he estimated the speed as between 400 to 500 MPH. The object did not lose elevation and left either a smoke or condensation trail in its former path. The vapor lasted for about 2 seconds. A missing sound accompanied the passing. The sound was moderate and not nearly as loud as that occasioned by a rocket snip.
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.