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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 Incidunt 79 1. Date April 1947 2. Time 1100 E Pibal Observation 3. Location N/S - presumably Richmond, Va. 1. Name of observer Mr. Minosewski 5. Occupation of obgorvor Weather reporters 6. Address of observer N/3 7. Place of observation Richmond, Va. 8. Number of objects 3 -4 separate sightings 9. Distance of object from observer high altitude 10. Tino in sight 15 seconds 11. altitude high altitude 12. speed rapid 13. Direction of flight east to west 14. Turtles N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size Larger than pibal balloon when observed thru a theodolite 17. Color metallic grey or silver 18. Shupo N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 22. Weather conditions clear 21. Exhaust trails N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketchos 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 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.