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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1. Date 7 January 1945
2. Time 1953
3. Location Columbus
$ I_{4}. $ Name of observer Lt. C. W. Thomas
5. Occupation of observer Pilot
6. address of observer Flight AF 9944 Dayton to Washington
7. Place of observation Cross Country flight from Dayton to Wash, at Columbus Airways to the West
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer About 15 miles
10. Time in sight . Not stated
11. altitude 3000 feet
12. Speed Seemed stationery
15. Direction of flight Stationery
11. Tactics No maneuvers
15. Sound Not stated
16. Size large
17. Color amber
18. Shc.pe like a large star or planet
19. Odor detected Not stated
20. Apparent construction Not stated
21. Exhaust trails None
22. Weather conditions Dark and overcast
23. Effect on clouds Not stated
21. Sketches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance Not stated
26. Romarks: Large bright light off to the west. They estimated it below them, or about 3000 ft. It seemed stationery. The light was ember and looked like a large star or planet. It was about 15 miles away from them. (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.