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.
“Los Angeles Times”1 page
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CHECK-LIST + UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 13 Aug 147 Incid. rt. # 76 2. Tinu N/S 3. Location Salmon Dam JdoQ. h. Tans of observer County Commissioner Hawkins J. H. Brown 5. Occupation of obgovor County Commissioner N/S 6. . . time of observer N/S 7. Place of observation Salmon Dan 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer several miles away 1C. Time in eight N/3 11. Altitude 4,000 to 6,000 ft 12. Speed great speed 15. Direction of flight N.3 14. Turtles B/S 15. Sound echo of a motor - County Commissioner Hawkins 16. 3120 T/3 17. Color N/3 - reflected light 16. Shape circular 19. Odor detected N/3 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketohus or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.