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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=LIS - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 7 July 1947 2. Time 2230-2300 3. Location Arlington, Va. 1. Name of observer James A. Cobb 5. Occupation of observer Lt Col., AQ 6. Address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation Arlington, Va. - 2807 N. Glebe Road. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 3/4 mile 10. Time in sight 2-3 seconds 11. altitude less than 500 ft 12. Speed that of jet 13. Direction of flight SOUTH EAST 11. Tootles N/S 15. Sound N/3 16. Size Small plane 17. Color Reflected white light 10. Shape "blob" 19. Odor detected k/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails None 32. Weather conditions Scattered clouds - Visibility: 10-12 mi. 23. Effect on clouds None 24. Skotohus or photographs 2 25. Manner of disappearances behind trees 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.