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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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## RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 20 July 1947 Incident # 57 2. Time 0015Z 3. Location About one hour from Sidney, Newfoundland. 4. Name of observer Messre Maitland, Lerkin, Douglas and Hamilton 5. Occupation of observer All employes of Hamilton, Metcalfe and Kansas City Bridge Company which concern is doing construction work at Harmon Fld 6. Address of observer With above-named concern 7. Place of observation on board the "Burgeo" enroute from Sydney Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. 8. Number of objects 1/2 - saw flashes - 4 or 5 approximately 1 second 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 30° off horizon at an estimated 1/4 mile range 12. Speed high velocity - faster than tracer bullet 13. Diroction of flight NNE (30° East of true North) 14. Tactics horizontal flight 15. Sound N/S. 16. Size N/S 17. Color N/S - object not seen - flashes were silvery to red in color 18. Shape N/S 19. Odor-dotected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S - possibly what was observed was itself the Woathor conditions Clear and dark 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.