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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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1. Date 7 Jan 48 2. Time Approx 1320 CST 3. Location Godman Fld., Ft Knox, Ky. 1. Name of observer PFC Stanley Oliver 5. Occupation of observer N/S - duty in control tower 6. address of observer Godman Fld., Ft Knox, Ky. 7. Place of observation Control Tower, Godman Fld., Ft Knox, Ky. 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer X/S 10. Time in sight x/s 11. altitude Over 15.000 ft 12. Speed B/S 13. Direction of flight Southwest 14. Tactics N/8 16. Sound X/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color Object appeared like "ice-cream cone topped with red" apparently white with red above 18. Shape cone 19. Odor detected X/S 20. Apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 2. Weather conditions Cloud formations 23. Effect on clouds Went behind clouds 24. Sketches or photographs Bone 25. Manner of disappearance I/S 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.