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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 Incident # 61 1. Date 7 July 1947 2. Time 0900 noire 3. Location Sickam Village #2 h. Name of observer Mr. Daniel Sito 5. Occupation of observer Air Communications Sections, Newark, nicken Tld. S. Address of observer N/S - Could be contacted at Hickem Fld 7. Place of observation vicinity of Hickem Villages? 8. Number of objects 1 - a large balloon with a silver disc mounted below it. 9. Distance of object from observer N/5 10. Time in eight few minutes 11. Altitude 6.000 ft 12. Spend slow 13. Direction of flight NW toward sea 14. Tactics revolved 15. Sound N/S 16. Siao N/S 17. Color silver 18. Shape spherical - like large balloon with disc attached 19. Oder dotetod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions cloudy 23. Effoet on elouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Hanner of disappearance lost among the clouds 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.