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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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1. Date 5 Jan 1948 Incident: 100 2. Time N 3. Location Helsinki Finland (Military Attache was official source of information) 4. Name of observer N/S 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation Pietarsaari, Finland 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 10 seconds 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed N/S 13. Direction of flight North to South 114. 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 Grey streaks were left in the sky. 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: A shining object was seen near Pietarsaari on 5th Jan 1948 which was observed for 10 seconds. It was going from north to south. Eyewitnesses state flames were ejected and grey streaks left in the sky.
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.