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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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A report received at Fairfield-Sulson town from McClellan Airfield over at Accra stated a report was received from a present Air Depot C-17 #7468 flying near Roselle, Calif. to the effect that an object was sighted at 1925 P. o. time trailing several columns of flame with red and green predominating. It was traveling at very high speed and low altitude eastward over one hill at approximately 37°50' N, 121°02' W. McClellan tower sent the pilot to investigate and at 1948 the pilot reported a small fire at 30°50' N, que 120°0' W which became considerably larger. Fairfield tower responded to also investigate the fire for possible aircrft collision and the pilot reported over the fire at 1927 P. o. time at a position of 38°50' N near 120°53' W. The fire was burning in a triangular surge over a small area and went out at 1955. One particular point in the fire turned to burn with a bright blue-green flame.
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.