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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.
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 8 or 9 Oct 1947 Incident # 72 2. Time N/S 3. Location Las Vegas, Nevada 1. Name of observer Thomas L. Moore 5. Occupation of observer N/S - Capt, USAFR - Ex pilot 6. address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation Outskirts of Las Vegas 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 4 to 5 miles 10. Timo in eight N/3 11. altitudo N/3 12. Speed 700 to 800 KH 13. Direction of flight East & circled to west 11. Tactics Flew straight, turned, flew straight again 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color N/S 18. Shope N/S 19. Oder detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Trail almost white and of cumulus cloud density which lasted some 1-20 minutes 22. Weather conditions almost cloudless 23. Effect on clouds N/3 24. Sketches or photographs sketch of course of object 25. Mannor of disappearance N/S 26. Romarks: (over)
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.