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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 8 July 47 2. Tina 1000 3. Location Muroc Air Fld., Muroc, Calif. 1. Name of observer S/Sgt Gerald N. Neuman 5. Coopetion of observer E/S 6. address of observer Muroc Army Air Fld., Muroc, Calif. 7. Place of observation ground - Muroc Aruy Air Fld., Muroc 8. Number of objects 3 objects - 2 at first, 1 later 9. Distance of object from observer I/8 10. Timo in sight I/S 11. altitude 7,000 to 8,000 ft 12. Spend 300 to 400 MPH 13. Direction of flight Northwest direction 14. Tactics Performed tight circle - the third object - other two kept horizontal course 15. Sound 8/3 16. Size N/S 17. Color X/S - gave off a definite reflection from sun 16. Shape disc 19. Odor detected X/S 20. apparent construction N/S - apparently metallic since they reflected light 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions Sunlight 23. Effect on clouds I/3 2h. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance E/S - Apparently in distance 26. Romarks: On 8 July 47 at 10:00 in the morning witness observed (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.