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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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1. Date 4 July 1947 2. Timo 1305 3. Location Oregon 4. Name of observer Earl E. Patterson 5. Occupation of observer Patrolman - former Air Corps pilot 6. Address of observer 6. Address of observer 124 Southeast 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 7. Place of observation Southeast 7. Place of observation Southeast 62d and Foster Road, Portland 8. Number of objects 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Z/S 10. Time in sight /s 11. Altitudo Approx 30,000 ft 12. Speed Terrific - faster than any speed witness had ever seen 15. Direction of flight 13. Direction of flight Southeastly direction over Portland 16. Tactics 16. Tactics Performed 90° angle without difficulty - thought to be radio controlled 15. Sound Bone 16. Size B/S 17. Color A2umd.com 18. Shapo disc 19. Odor dotootod N/S 20. Apparent construction E/S Apparently metallic or eggshell white didn't reflect light 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions 2/8 23. Effect on clouds I/3 2L. Sketches or photographs Zone. 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.