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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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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1. Date 8 July 47
2. Timo 0945
3. Location Muroc AAF1d, Muroc, Calif 34 $ ^{o} $ 54 $ ^{\prime} $ N 117 $ ^{o} $ 53 $ ^{\prime} $ W
4. Name of observer S/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo
5. Occupation of observer NCO Charge Billeting Office
6. Address of observer Muroc Air Fld., Muroc, Calif
7. Place of observation Ground - Muroc
8. Number of objects 2
9. Distance of object from observer I/S
10. Time in sight N/S
11. altitude Between 7500 or 8000 ft
12. Speed 350-400 MPH
13. Direction of flight Northwestern
14. Tactics X/S
15. Sound None
16. Size X/S
17. Color Silver
18. Shape Saucer or Disc shaped
19. Odor detected E/S
20. Apparent construction N/S - Apparently metallic
21. Exhaust trails E/S
22. Weather conditions I/8
23. Effect on clouds I/S
24. Sketches or photographs None
25. Nanner of disappearance I/8
26. Romarks: Fitness, BCO in charge of Billeting Office, Nurse AF Base. (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.