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 Incident 30c 1. Dusen 7 January 1948 2. Time Around 1940 3. Location Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mr. Eisele 5. Occupation of observer DF Operator, Lockbourne Control Tower 6. Address of observer Lockbourne AAP, Columbus, Ohio 7. Place of observation Ground, Lockbourne AAB 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer An estimated 5 miles - altho rpts f/Godman Pld, Clinton On Airport & relayed rpt f/Columbus, 0, indicated such greater distance 10. Time in sight around 15 minutes 11. Altitude 5,000 ft 12. Spood 500 arH - as indicated by rpts f/Godman Fld Clinton Cy airport 13. Direction of flight Appeared to lover but performed elliptical, counterclock wise course when it descended to hrdson (1" ) remained stationary (3" ) returning 1h. Tactics See 13 original position (3" ) 15. Sound No sound 16. Size About size of runway light when viewed from 500 ft - apparently enormous - see 9 above 17. Color and to auburn-yellow 16. Shape Circular 19. Cdor dotoetod N/3 20. Apparent construction t/s 21. Exhaust trails Thin wisp of trail five times diameter of object. 22. Weather conditions high overcast 23. Effect on clouds N/S - was under overcast 21. Skotohos or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Faded and lowered into horizon 26. Romarks: (ver)
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.