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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 7 Jan 45
2. Timo 1925
3. Location N/S - presumably near Lockbourne
4. Name of observer Albert R. Pickering
5. Occupation of observer VHF/DF Operator (CAF-7)
6. Address of observer 332d Fighter Wing, Lockbourne
7. Place of observation Lockbourne - objects seen over Commercial Point
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer Approx 3 to 5 miles (Rpts f/
dman Fld & Clinton Cy Airport & from pilot over Columbus indicate distance much farther) 10. Timo in sight 20 minutes
11. Altitude Around 10,000 ft -
12. Speed greater than 500 MPH in level flight
13. Direction of flight $ 1 2 0^{\circ} $ (East)
16. Tactics Climbed and descended vertically - performed circles - it circled one plade for duration of 3 360 $ ^{\circ} $ turns then moved to another position 15. Sound None and again circled
16. Size Larger than C-47
17. Color Amber
18. Shape Round or oval
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails Amber exhaust trail about 5 times the length of object
22. Weather conditions High overcast at 10,000 ft
23. Effoot on clouds Occasionally entered overcast
24. Skotohus or photographs None
25. Mannor of disappearance Leveled off and disappeared into overcast at $ 1 2 0^{\circ} $
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.