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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 8 July 1947 0930 3. Location Muroc Air Field, Muroc, Calif 1. Name of observer. 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry 5. Occupation of observer Billeting Officer in Charge, Muroc AAFld. 6. address of observer Murdoc. AA1d 7. Places of observation ground - Muroe, AAFld 5. Number of objects 2 at first - 1 sometime later 9. Distance of object from observer E/S 16. Time in sight I/S 11. altitude Approx 8000 ft 19. Speed 300 KPH 15. Direction of flight 320° due north heading 11. Justice Performed a tight circle 15. Sound N/S 16. Size X/S 17. Color Silver 18. Shape disco-like or spherical 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction E/S - Apparently metallic 21. Exhaust trails E/S 72. Weather conditions B/S 23. Effort on clouds N/S. 21. Sketches or photographs None 25. Nameer of disappearance in distance 26. Romarks: At approximately 09:30 Lt McHenry left Post Exchange (over) SECRET
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.