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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 GLM-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.

  • p. 152 …Location Hamilton Fld., Calif h. Name of observer Capt William H. Ryherd 5. Occupation of observer…
  • p. 154 …Location Hamilton Fld.. California h. Name of observer Ward L. Stewart 5. Occupation of observer 1st…
  • p. 155 …miles on preliminary approach for landing at Hamilton Fld. Object was estimated to be following P…
  • p. 164 …Name of observer Mrs Messrs Maitland, Larkin, Douglas and Hamilton 5. Occupation of observer All employees…
  • p. 247 The Fairfield Control Tower obtained a report at approximately 2300 EST 30 Dec 47 from Hamilton…

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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)

Cases discussed

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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.