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.
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date. 20 Oct 47
2. Time 1100
3. Location Zenia, Ohio
1. Name of observer Ruth Atkinson
5. Occupation of observer E/S
6. address of observer R1. Xenia. Ohio
7. Place of observation Xenia, Ohio
9. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer I/S
10. Time in sight I/8
11. Altitudo 1000 to 1500 ft
12. Spcod fast
15. Tectics straight course
13. Direction of flight Southwest
15. Sound None
16. Size 12 $ ^{n} $ in dia.
27. Color Silver
18. Shapo round
19. Odor detected $ 2 / s $
20. Apparent construction X/8
21. Exhaust trails N/S
22. Weather conditions B/S
23. Effect on clouds E/S
24. Skotohos or photographs None
25. Mannor of disappearance I/S
26. Romarks: Could not see any propellers or done which observer thought strange nor was the object making any noise at all. NOTE: Observer mentions two witnesses 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.