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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 # 1. Date 10 July 47 2. Time 1000 3. Location Cordroy, Newfoundland - 47° 52' N 59° 21' W 4. Name of observer Wm Evans 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer Cordroy, Newfoundland 7. Place of observation Cordroy, Newfoundland 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Spood very fast 13. Direction of flight couldn't ascertain 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Sizo dinner plate 17. Color between red and yellow 18. Shape circle 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Had tail on it of yellowish hue which was not as bright as circle and seemed a little over a yard long. 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance "hardly in sight before it disappeared" 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.