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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.
“Hamilton”5 pages
Info taken from reports of radio conversation between Control at Godman and Mg 869 essentially as follows: Col Hir's account. NG 869: "Object traveling at 180 MPH - half my speed" Lt Orner's account. NG 869: "high and traveling about 1/2 my speed at 12 o'clock position." Later: "Closing in to take a good look" No further word heard by Orner T/Sgt Quinton A. Blackwell: NG 869: At 1445. "Object traveling at 180 MPH Directly ahead of & above me now and moving at about 1/2 my speed." Later: "I'm trying to close in for better look" At 15,000 ft: 'Object directly ahead of and above me now and moving about 1/2 my speed. It appears metallic of tremendous size. I'm trying to close in for better look" No other word heard by Blackwell from NG 869. ## Capt Gary W. Carter: NG 869: "Object going up and forward as fast as he was" - approx 360 MPH. "going to 20,000 ft and if no closer will abandon chase" No further contact heard by Capt Carter - *Apparently last word ever received from NG 869.
Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.