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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 1. Date 10 Aug 47 Incident # 66 2. Time 9 o'clock - well after dark 3. Location Near Silver Springs, Ohio 4. Name of observer Lt Colonel,F. L. Walker Jr., GSC 5. Occupation of observer Scientific Branch, Research Group 6. Address of observer R&DD, WDGS 7. Place of observation Near Silver Springs, Ohio 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight 3-4 seconds 11. Altitude low flying 12. Speed N/S 13. Diroction of flight north to south 14. Tactics absolutely horizontal 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color bright orange glow or flame 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails long, straight, narrow white streak of flame (similar to streak left by tracer bullet) which vanished very quickly. Weather conditions N/S - well after dark 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance simply vanished in mid-air. 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.