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-BLIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date 7 Jan 48
2. Time 1420 CST
3. Location Control Tower, Godman Fld
4. Name of observer Capt J. F. Dussler, Jr.
5. Occupation of observer Capt, USAF
6. address of observer Godman Fld. Ky
7. Place of observation Godman Fld Control Tower
8. Number of objects 1 at 1420
9. Distance of object from observer X/S
10. Time in sight From 1420 to 1600 CST - Over an hour and a half
11. altitudo N/S
12. Spcod 360 MPH - according to statement of Mantell
13. Direction of flight Apparently from $ 2 3 4^{\circ} $ to $ 2 5 9^{\circ} $ South to West
1h. Tuetics N/S
15. Sound X/S
16. Size Believed large
27. Color Silver - bright
18. Shape like tear drop - round; later, object seemed fluid
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction E/S
21. Exhaust trails No tail -
22. Weather conditions N/S - Scattered but clear
23. Effect on clouds N/S
21. Skotohos or photographs Zone
25. Manner of disappearance Obscured by clouds
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.