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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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estimated size: 100 ft from top to bottom, 43 ft across and 4 miles high proceeding SW at 10 MPH. NOTE: Kentucky State Police were informed by unknown individual(s) that an unusual aircraft or object was flying thru the air, circular in appearance, with an approximate size of 250-300 ft which was moving westward "at a pretty good clip". This was relayed to Godman Fld. NOTE: See also report by James Hudson, Inc. 48b NOTE: Course of object on 7 July 45 is reported roughly as follows: 07200 Edgardeville, Illinois: Object of aluminum appearance without apparent wings or control surfaces which moved southwest remaining visible for about 30 minutes 1300: Elizabethtown: No description 1310: Lexington, Ky. : No description Madisonville, Ky. - as reported in this. 1400: Maysville: No description After 1400: Irvine: No description After 1400: Owensboro: No description 16300-1845C: Nashville, Tenn : A. Dr. Seyfert, Astronomer at Vanderbilt Univ. spotted an object SSE of Nashville, Tenn. between 16300 with basket attached which moved first SSE then West at a speed of 10 MPH at approx 25,000 ft. 1735: Godman Fld Control Tower: See Orner's account (33a) See Duesler account (33c) EST 1925: Lockbourne AB, Columbus, Ohio: See Incident 30, 30a, 30 b & 30c
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.