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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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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1. Date 4 July 47 2. Tina 1305 3. Location Portland, Oregon 1. Name of observer 4. A. Lissy 5. Occupation of observer Patrolman - also a private pilot 6. address of observer Portland City Police Dept. 7. Place of observation ground b. Number of objects 3 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 1C. Time in sight B/S 11. altitude 40,000 ft 12. Spend terrific 13. Direction of flight South 11. Tactics Straight-line formation except last die fluttered to side in arc 15. Sound None 16. Size N/S 17. Color white 18. Shape disc 19. Odor detected N/S 20. apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear - with little or no cloud formations visible from ground 23. Effect on clouds H/S - no clouds 21. Sketches or photographs Zone 25. Manner of disappearance E/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.