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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 Incidunt 1. Date 23 Aug 47 2. Time 1300 3. Location Smoke River Canyon (near Twin Falls) Idaho 11. Name of observer A. C. Urie and two sons, Kenneth & Billy 5. Occupation of observer farmer 6. address of observer Operator of "Auger Falls Trout Farm" 6 miles west of Blue Lakes Ranch, Snake River Canyon 7. Place of observation As above - going down the Snake River 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 300 ft 10. Time in sight momentary 11. altitude 75 ft from the canyon floor - 300 ft away from observer level view afforded 12. Spood 1000 MPH 13. Direction of flight East to West 11. Tactics Road up and down over hills & nollowe of canyon 15. Sound switching sound 16. Size 20 feet by 10 ft in thickness 17. Color sky blue 16. Shape oblong broad rimmed hat with low crown Inverted pie-plate 19. Odor detected None 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Exhaust flame - a red tubular fiery glow at the side of the top or hood. 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 21. Sketches or photographs one 25. Mannor of disappeared disappeared behind hill 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.