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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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1. Date 5 or 9 Oct 1947 2. Time /s 3. Location Las Vegas, Nevada 4. Name of observer Thomas L. Moore 5. Occupation of observer E/S - Capt. USAFR - Ex pilot 6. Address of observer 6. Address of observer 7. Place of observation Outskirts of Las Vegas 9. Distance of object from observer 4 to 5 miles 10. Timo in sight /s 11. Altitude /s 12. Spood 700 to 800 MPH 13. Direction of flight East & circled to west 14. Tactics Flew straight, turned, flew straight again 15. Sound x/s 16. Size N/S 18. Shape N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails Trail almost white and of cumulus cloud density Weather condition which lasted some 15-20 minutes almost cloudless Effect on clouds I/s Effect on clouds N/S Sketches or photographs sketch of course of object Manner of disappearance N/S
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.