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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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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident 12 1. Date 4 July 1947 2. Tina 1305 3. Location Vancouver, Washington 1. Date of observer John Sullivan 5. Occupation of obgorver Sheriff's Deputy 6. Address of observer Vancouver, Washington 7. Place of observation Vancouver, Walthington, "ground" 8. Number of objects 20 to 30 9. Distance of object from observer 3 to 5 miles away over Portland 10. Timo in sight II/9 11. altitudo E/S 12. Speed N/S 13. Direction of flight N/S 11. Tactics 8/9 15. Sound low humming sound 16. Size N/B 17. Color N/S 16. Shape "V" shaped - like flock of geese 19. Odor detected E.8 20. apparent construction B/A 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions X/S 23. Effect on clouds 2/8 21. Sketches or photographs None 25. Nannor of disappearance $ 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.