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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
1. Date 3 Aug 1947
Incident # 88
2. Time late afternoon
3. Location Reckenstck, N. J.
4. Name of observer Charles Casells, Jr. 287 Euclid Ave, Rockenstock Wm. Truex, U. S. Army, Ft. Lix
5. Occupation of observer N/S
6. address of observer See 4 above
7. Place of observation Hackensack, N. J.
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer 200 yds
10. Time in sight N/S
11. altitud 200 yds
12. Speed rapid
15. Direction of flight N/S
15. Tactics revolved slowly
15. Sound N/S
16. Size N/S
17. Color N/S
18. Shop N/S
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails N/S
22. Worthor conditions N/S
23. Effect on clouds E/S
$ 2^{1} , $ Skotchos or photographs None
25. Nannor 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.