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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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1. Date 4 July 1947 2. Time 1400 3. Location Portland, Oregon 4. Name of observer E. A. Evans 5. Occupation of observer I/3 6. Address of observer 3433 on Golden Ave. 7. Place of observation Portland, Oregon - ground 8. Number of objects 1 at first 2 later 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 2-4 seconds 11. Altitude one object appeared not too high. 2 others appeared far away & very high 12. Speed very fast 13. Direction of flight 1. west to east. 2 - north 11. Tactics N/3 15. Sound N/S 16. Size B/S 17. Color Ressembled metallic discs glinting in sunlight 18. Shape disc 19. Odor dotected 20. Apparent construction n/s - unless metallic 21. Exhaust trails X/S 22. Weather conditions B/S 23. Effect on clouds 2/3 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance out of sight within 2 to 4 seconds 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.