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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 1. Date 4 July 1947 2. Time 1100 5. Location Mt Jefferson, Oregon 1. Name of observer C. J. Bogne 5. Occupation of observer I/S 6. Address of observer Tigard, Oregon 7. Place of observation Near Redmond - ground 3. Number of objects 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Time in sight B/S 11. altitude M/S 12. Speed I/S 13. Direction of flight I/8 14. Tooties I/S 15. Sound I/S 16. Size / S 17. Color X/8 18. Shapo disc 19. Odor detected 2/8 20. Apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions N/8 23. Effect on clouds I/S 24. Sketches or photographs 275 None 25. Manner of disappearance X/3 26. Romarks: C. J. Bagne, Tigard reported that four discs flew past Nt Jefferson at about 11 a.m., while he was driving near Redmond.
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.