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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.
Incident: #99 1. Date 3 Jan 1948 2. Time N/S ```markdown ``` 3. Location Helsinki, Finland 4. Name of observer Artile taken from Helsinki Press, 10th Jan 48 Finland (USMILATTACHE AMLEGATION Helsinki, Findlad 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of Observer Helsinki, Finland 7. Place of observation Vaasa, Finland 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 30 seconds 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed N/S 13. Direction of flight West to East 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. - Color "shining" 18. Shape N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Long tail 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25 Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: Helsinki press 10th Jan 48 reported observation of light phenomenon vicinity Vaasa 3 Jan. A brightly shining object with a long tail was observed moving west to east. Visible for 30 seconds. SECRET
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.