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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 6 Aug 47 2. Time 2230-2245 3. Location Philadelphia, Pa. 4. Name of observer Miss Cecelia Fine 5. Occupation of observer Employed by Pressman & Gutman Co., Inc. 6. Address of observer 5617 Arlington St., Phila, Pa. 7. Place of observation 2114 Hobart St., Phila, Pa. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Spood N/S 13. Diroction of flight N/S 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound slight buzzing sound 16. Size N/S 17. Color N/S 18. Shapo N/S Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Romarks: Miss Fine was sitting on the steps of Miss Naddle's home the evening of 6 Aug 47 around 10:45 P.M. engaged in conversation when
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.