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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 10 Jan 48 Incident # 50a 2. Time 10 PM EST 3. Location Wildwood, N. J. 4. Name of observer Mrs. Krueger 5. Occupation of observer housewife 6. Address of observer 401 Pine Ave., Wildwood, New Jersey 7. Place of observation from 401 Pine Ave (39° 00' N & 78° 48' W) 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer 500 ft 10. Timo in sight 5-8 seconds 11. Altitude varying 12. Speed slow descent 13. Direction of flight down 14. Tactics Floated slowly across horizon, separated and disappeared 15. Sound none 16. Size N/S - that of lamplight 17. Color orange-colored 18. Shape discs or balls 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 none 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.