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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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## CONFIDENTIAL CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 7 Jan 48 Incident # 48d 2. Time 1920 to 1950 3. Location Clinton County Army Air Fld., Wilmington, O. 4. Name of observer Mr. Ralph L. Stirr 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer Clinton County AAB 7. Place of observation Clinton County AAB 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Seemed to be at first some 4,000 ft high 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 4,000 ft+ 12. Speed movement slow in appearance 13. Direction of flight approx due west 14. Tactics described arc from point first seen to horizon 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color fire-colored 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction if "fire" 21. Exhaust trails none -"left no trails or tails like a meteor or comet" Woathor conditions clear to scattered 23. Effect on clouds Nx Light could be seen when clouds passed beneath it. Sketches or photographs none 25. Manner of disappearance due west over horizon 26. Remarks: (over)
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.