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 7 January 1948 Incident # 301 2. Time Between 1915 and 1930 EST Later 1935 to 1940 3. Location Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mr. Doudreaux 5. Occupation of obgorvor Tower Operator 6. Address of observer Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 7. Places of observation Tower, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 9. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Not stated 16. Time in sight about 15 minutes 11. Altitude Not stated 12. Spend Not stated 13. Direction of flight Southwest 11. Tactics Bobbed up and down 15. Sound Not started None 16. Size Not stated only resembles a star Inormous 17. Color white to amber as it moved southwest it changed from amber to red 18. Shape Glowing object with a cone-shaped streak to the right 19. Odor detected Not stated 20. apparent construction Not stated 21. Exhaust trails Bluish streaks like a jet effect out from the right 22. Weather conditions Sky overcast 23. Effect on clouds Not stated 214. Sketches or photographs None 25. Hanner of disappearance went out 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.