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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.

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“Nevers”7 pages

  • 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.
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)

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.