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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 152 …Location Hamilton Fld., Calif h. Name of observer Capt William H. Ryherd 5. Occupation of observer…
  • p. 154 …Location Hamilton Fld.. California h. Name of observer Ward L. Stewart 5. Occupation of observer 1st…
  • p. 155 …miles on preliminary approach for landing at Hamilton Fld. Object was estimated to be following P…
  • p. 164 …Name of observer Mrs Messrs Maitland, Larkin, Douglas and Hamilton 5. Occupation of observer All employees…
  • p. 247 The Fairfield Control Tower obtained a report at approximately 2300 EST 30 Dec 47 from Hamilton…
Patrolman D. W. Ellis (also a private pilot) perceived three flat round discs which flew at terrific speed in straight line formation, the last disc fluttering very rapidly in a side-way are. He saw no evidence of any motivating powers and there were no vapor or smoke trails. No sound could be heard. Ground temperature was 52 $ ^{\circ} F $ with little or no cloud formation.

NOTE:Corroborated account. Witnessed by Patrolman W. A. Lissy (also a private pilot) Both very dependable & trustworthy officers

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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.