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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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  • p. 119 …Color gray 18. Shapo elliptical 19. Odor detected N/8 20. Apparent construction E/S 21…
  • p. 190 …Manner of disappearance disappeared in puff of dark gray smoke 26. Romarks: (over)
  • p. 191 …Upon reaching a 1200 position it was engulfed in a puff of dark gray smoke about…
  • p. 211 …Color Light gray 18. Shape circular 19. Odor dotcetod N/S 20. Apparent construction N/3…
  • p. 212 …Due to their speed he could see only that they were circular and possibly light gray…
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incidart # 91

1. Date 28 June 1947

2. Time 2120 Central Time

3. Location. Maxwell Fld., Montgomery, Ala.

4. Name of observer Capt John H. Centrell,0-255404, Hq, TAC

5. Occupation of observer See above

6. address of observer See above

7. Place of observation Maxwell Field, Ala

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer N/S

10. Time in sight Over 5 minutes

11. Altitudo impossible to determine - great height

12. Spood frequent bursts of speed

13. Direction of flight changing -zig-nag course - first east, then south then southwest

15. Tactics traveled with frequent bursts of speed in a zig-zag course

15. Sound No audible sound

16. Size slightly greater than a star

17. Color N/S - brilliant light

18. Shapo 5/3

19. Odor dotootod N/S

20. Apparent construction "light"

21. Exhaust trails N/S

22. Weather conditions clear moon-light night

23. Effect on clouds N/S

2h. Skotches None in our file altho letter of transmittal indicates one was sent

25. Nanner of disappearance lost in brilliancy of the moon

26. Romarks: (over)

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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.