Documents / Report
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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
1. Date 4 July 47 2. Time 1305 3. Location Portland, Oregon 4. Name of observer D. V. Ellis 5. Occupation of observer Patrolman 6. Address of observer Portland City Police Dept., Oregon 7. Place of observation Portland, Oregon 8. Number of objects 3 9. Distance of object from observer I/8 10. Time in sight 1/8 11. Altitude Approx 40,000 ft 12. Speed terrific 13. Direction of flight South 15. Tactics Straight-line formation except last which flutter to side in are 15. Sound None 16. Size 8.8 17. Color White 18. Shape Disc 19. Odor detected M/S 20. apparent construction B/S 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear - with little or no cloud formation visible from ground 23. Effect on clouds B/S - no clouds 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Nanner of disappearance I/8 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.