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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 # 56
1. Date 6 July 47
2. Time 2045 hours
3. Location Birmingham, Alabama
4. Name of observer Staff Sergeant Ira L. Livingston
5. Occupation of observer S/Sgt, w/250 hours as Pilot and Armorer Gunner
6. Address of observer 1354 Meadow Lane, Green Acres, Birmingham, Ala.
7. Place of observation As above $ 3 3^{\circ} $ $ 3 3^{\prime} \mathrm{N} $ $ 8 6^{\circ} $ $ 5 2^{\prime} $ W
8. Number of objects 7 to 10
9. Distance of object from observer Undetermined
Time in sight N/S
Altitude 2000 ft above horizon at 45° angle
Speed 500 to 600 MPH
Direction of flight Southeast
14. Tactics vertical ascent - traveled in arc
Soumd none
16. Size 2 ft in diameter
17. Color N/S
18. Shape round
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
Exhaust trails N/S
Weather conditions N/S
Effoct on clouds N/S
Sketches or photographs xx one photograph
Manner of disappearance N/S
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.