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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 10 Jan 48 (see reverse side of sheet) Incident # 50
2. Time 10 PM EST
3. Location Wildwood, N. J. (39° 00' N & 78° 48' W)
4. Namo of observer Mrs. Ethel Evans
5. Occupation of observer authority on knitting
6. Address of observer Bellvue Apts, Wildwood, N. J.
7. Place of observation 401 Pine Ave, Wildwood (home of Mrs. Krueger)
8. Number of objects 1 which split into 2 pieces
9. Distance of object from observer undetermined
10. Timo in sight 5-8 seconds
11. Altitude varying - slow descent
12. Speed slow
13. Direction of flight shoreward $ (2 7 0^{\circ}) $
14. Tactics broke into two pieces
15. Sound None
16. Size lamplight
17. Color yellow, red or amber-colored
18. Shape ovular - tear drop
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails none
22. Weather conditions Clear night
23. Effect on clouds. N/S
24. Sketches or photographs Forwarded a picture of Mars published in "Life' which showed an orange-red ball
25. Manner of disappearance fell into sea
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.