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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 PLYING OBJECTS Incidunt 84 1. Date 7 July 1947 2. Time between 1300 and 1400 hours EST 3. Location 1 mile east of Lekeland, Fla 4. Name of observer Mr. Hiram William Griffin 5. Occupation of observer "sign painter" previously cab-driver amateur artist. Also former 2d-class seaman in U. S. Navy 6. Address of observer 802 N. Tennessee Ave., Lakeland, Fla 7. Place of observation 1 mile east of Lakeland, Fla - ground 8. Number of objects 5 9. Distance of object from observer one mile 10. Time in eight 15-30 seconds 11. altitude between 5,000 to 7,500 ft 12. Sped very fast 15. Direction of flight N/S - upward 16. Tactics climbed 2500 feet in just a few seconds 15. Sound swishing noise that seemed to sing with a more or less shrill whine. 16. Size N/S 17. Color "glittery" 18. Shapo N/S - seemed "turtle-backed" from modmodx photograph submitted 19. Odor dotootad N/S 20. Apparent construction plastic appearance 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions Clear with scattered clouds 23. Effect on clouds N/S 21. Sketches or photographs photograph 25. Mannor of disapposuree climbed out of sight 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.