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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
Incident # 55
1. Date 23 July 47
2. Time 0345Z (0715 local)
Location Harmon Fld., Stephenville, Newfoundland
Name of observer Miss Patricia Abbott & Lt Hammaker
Occupation of observer government employee and Navigator & Public Relations Officer
Address of observer
7. Place of observation Harmon Fld., Newfoundland $ 4 8^{\circ} $ 30' N $ 5 8^{\circ} $ 33' W
Number of objects Undetermined
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/6x Three minutes
11. Altitude 10,000 ft.
Speed high velocity - stated to be faster than conventional A/C
13. Direction of flight NNE
Tactics abrupt darts
15. Sound no noise
16. Size N/S
17. Color reddish flashes of light
18. Shape N/S
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
Exhaust trails N/S
2. Weather conditions high scattered clouds - visible 15 miles
23. Effect on clouds N/S
24. Sketches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance N/S
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.