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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 Albert Samms 5. Occupation of observer N/S - child of 12 6. Address of observer Cordroy, Newfoundland 7. Place of observation Box Cordroy, Newfoundland 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight "only a minute" 11. Altitude - flying at height of plane which is flying high 12. Speod terrific 13. Direction of flight N/S 14. Tactics B75 - "shot down very fast" - See Mrs Samms' account as told by her son Albert 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color bright reddish yellow 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S - witnesses affirm it was "clear" and at dusk 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.