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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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Witness saw one object which split into two separate pieces and fell into the ocean. (See Mrs Krueger's account) Feb 19, 1948, 1225 A. M. : Witness stated that she saw saucer. Tried to take picture but says object was moving too fast. Feb 21, 1948 (Sat Night) Mar 11, 1948 10:50 P. M. (Thursday night) Reported seeing another "saucer" Apr 2, 4:40 P. M. Sew mystery light drop and fall in the water Apr 2d; 5:10 P. M. : Object resembles a small pilot-less plane - very bright metal - no motor noise and looks like the pictures of the German pilot-less planes. The center was ball shaped and very bright metal. It followed the coast line until out of sight. It came from the south and was heading north. (same time date) Object appeared to fall in water. The metal wings were small and evidently broke as it fell since it appeared like sheets of metal dropping at the side. Witness states she saw this clearly. Apr 2 and 3: July 1st, 1948 "new guided missile of bright metal seen since 2 Apr." "There is activity in Wildwood again - the saucers have been appearing since 1 July." Mrs. Evans inclosed picture shown in "Life" of the planet Mars" which shows an orange-red ovular circle. In letter to President Truman she writes: "there have been more 'flying saucers' which appear on very clear nights - when there is a moon. They appear to come from the SE and from the ocean. Over the island they appear unsteady - like the one that broke. Then over the land they ascend quite high and move towards the NW, disappearing at not too fast a speed." NOTE: Individual appears to be "crackpot" No one (with the exception of Mrs. Krueger)appears to have seen the many sightings mentioned. This in spite of an alerted coast guard, police dept. and others. 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.