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This U.S. Department of War file, undated, holds checklist summaries of incidents 1 to 100 of unidentified flying objects reported in 1947 and early 1948. The first entries cover sightings of silver discs and spheres by officers and staff at Muroc Army Air Field on 7 and 8 July 1947. Next come the Portland, Oregon police reports of 4 July, a United Air Lines crew near Emmett, Idaho, and a set of 30 December flame and explosion reports from California and Nevada. The file ends with two Finnish sightings.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. NARA Record Group 38, catalogue id 143685. Each of these incident summaries 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-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 7 Jan 48 Incident # 48b 2. Time 1920 EST 3. Location Clinton County Army Air Field, Wilmington, Ohio 4. Name of observer James H. Hudson, 5. Occupation of observer Corporal, on duty in Control Tower 6. Address of observer Clinton County AAF. 7. Place of observation Control Tower, Clinton County AAF 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer some 15 to 20 miles 10. Time in sight 35 minutes 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed Hovered then moved with great speed 13. Diroction of flight South West 14. Tactics Changed shape on ascent and descent - When it climbed it was right side up - (point up) When descending the point turned down 15. Sound none 16. Sizo larger than star 17. Color White changing to red to green 18. Shape Triangle 19. Odor detected N/S . Apparent construction surrounded with burning gas or something that emanated light Exhaust trails When ascending & descending it appeared to trail a green mist 2. Weather conditions light scattered clouds with a haze toward the SW Effect on clouds Could be seen thru the cloud which passed under it. Sketches or photographs 4 penciled sketches Manner of disappearance disappeared on SW heading at great speed Remarks: (over) CONFIDENTIAL
Official release, 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. 209 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.