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.
“University of Colorado”1 page
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date Mid-December 1916 2. Time Early morning 3. Location Northern Arizona, Route 66 4. None of observer K. D. Wood 5. Occupation of observer Professor and Head Aeronautical Engineering 6. Address of observer University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 7. Place of observation In flight on a trip through the southwest 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Not stated 10. Time in sight Not stated 11. Altitude 20,000 feet to 50,000 feet 12. Speed 600 mph, $ \pm 2 0 0 $ 13. Direction of flight First vertical then West to East overhead 11. Tactics ne mareuvers 15. Sound None 16. Size Not stated 17. Color - Did not see object 18. Shape Not stated - did not see object 19. Oder detected Not Stated 20. apparent construction Not stated - did not see object 21. Exhaust trails White, heavy 22. Weather conditions Clear 23. Effect on clouds Not stated 2h. Sketchos or photographs None 25. Lanner of disappearance Not stated 26. Romarks: Saw only vapor trail, like rocket or jet exhaust. Not like usual jet airplane trail.
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.