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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 6 July 1,47 Incident # 89 2. Time 1:45 P.M. 3. Location 100 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri 1. Name of observer Maj Archie d. Browning 5. Occupation of observer Maj. Air Corps, pilot of 3-25 6. address of observer N/3 7. Place of observation air 9. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 10 miles 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 11,000 ft 12. Spood 310 X-11 13. Direction of flight Eastward 16. Tootios observed horizontal flight 15. Sound N/S 16. Size 30-50 ft in diameter 17. Color very bright and silvery colored 18. Shapo round 19. Odor dotectod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions CAVU 23. Effect on clouds N/S 2h. Skotchos or photographs N ne 25. Mannor of disappearance Disappeared when pilot started to turn into it. 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.