Documents / Report
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.
1. Date 4 Aug 47
2. Timo 1600
3. Location Boston, Mets
1. Bank of observer Alphens B. Powell, Capt of PA Airways, Inc. Walter I. White, Navigator
5. Occupation of observer Crew of Pan Amer Constitution
6. Address of observer 28 Redwood Road, New Hyde Park, Long Island
7. Place of observation Approximately midway between Everett, Mass and Bedford Radio Bescon.
11. Number of objects 2
9. Distance of object from observer 1 mile away
10. Timo in sight 30 seconds
11. altitude 7,800 ft
12. Spcod 175 KH
13. Direction of flight easterly - approx $ 1 1 0^{\circ} $ magnetic
21. Tactics N/S
15. Sound N/S
16. Size 15 ft long, 2-3 feet in depth
17. Color deep gold
18. Shape elliotical
19. Oder dotootod N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails None
22. Weather conditions 5/10 scattered cumulus with tops 1000 Visibility: 10 mi.
23. Effect on clouds N/3
24. Skotohos or photographs None
25. Narner of disappearance Lost in clouds
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.