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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 152 …Location Hamilton Fld., Calif h. Name of observer Capt William H. Ryherd 5. Occupation of observer…
  • p. 154 …Location Hamilton Fld.. California h. Name of observer Ward L. Stewart 5. Occupation of observer 1st…
  • p. 155 …miles on preliminary approach for landing at Hamilton Fld. Object was estimated to be following P…
  • p. 164 …Name of observer Mrs Messrs Maitland, Larkin, Douglas and Hamilton 5. Occupation of observer All employees…
  • p. 247 The Fairfield Control Tower obtained a report at approximately 2300 EST 30 Dec 47 from Hamilton…
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

Cases discussed

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.