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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 8 …all types of aircraft since 1943 and never in my life have I seen anything such…
  • p. 31 …A former vice president, he said the object was unliveable and never seen. He thought it…
  • p. 57 …She mentioned that she had never seen that before, so we stopped to look and listen…
  • p. 149 …I think it was a flying saucer as I have never seen anything equal to it…
  • p. 171 …he had seen shooting stars before but never had seen anything to compare with it) nor…
  • p. 189 …Witness states he never observed a comet which acted in this manner and was of the…
  • p. 206 …middle-aged man The boys stated that they had never before seen one of the discs.
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)

Cases discussed

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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.