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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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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1. Date 23 Oct 47 2. Time 5:30-5:45 A. X. 3. Location 14 miles north of Duphin, Manitoba, Canada on highway to Winnipegosis h. Tame of observer C. D. Bates 5. Occupation of observer Mgr Gova Liquor Store, Duphin, Manitoba, Can. 6. Address of observer Govn Liquor Office, Dauphin, Manitoba, Can 7. Place of observation Closed car 14 miles N of Dauphin 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Time in sight Approx 3 seconds 11. Altitudo I/S 12. Speed that of meteor or falling star 13. Direction of flight NW to SE 1h. Tueties X/S 15. Sound No noise 16. Size When first observed: size of first magnitude star which grew 17. Color blue ball of fire 18. Shapo ball 19. Odor detected I/S 20. Apparent construction Z/S 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear - 23. Effect on clouds N/N - no clouds 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Exploded like a skyrocket 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.