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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 20 Oct 47 2. Time 1320 3. Location David Road, Dayton, Ohio h. Name of observer Bent S. C. Britton 5. Occupation of observer 6. Address of observer David Road, Dayton 7. Place of observation ground - David Road. Dayton 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer B/S 10. Timo in sight X/S 11. Altitudo 1 to 5 miles high - could not be determined 12. Spood Very fast 13. Direction of flight West to East but slightly to the North 11. Tactics One object followed the other about a city block apart 15. Sound Zone 16. Size I/s 17. Color Reflected light 18. Shapo like cigar 19. Odor dotoetod N/S 20. Apparent construction E/S 21. Exhaust trails like a slight trace of steam 22. Weather conditions CAFU 23. Effect on clouds E/S - no clouds 21. Sketches or photographs 25. Manner of disappearance B/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.