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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.
“Los Angeles Times”1 page
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident 1. Date April 1947 2. Time 1100 E Pibal Observation 3. Location N/S - presumably Richmond, Va. 4. Name of observer Mr. Minozewski 5. Occupation of observer Weather reporters 6. Address of observer M/S 7. Place of observation Richmond, Va. 8. Number of objects 3-4 separate sightings 9. Distance of object from observer high altitude 11. Altitude high altitude 12. Speod rapid 13. Direction of flight east to west 14. Tactics I/S 15. Sound E/s 16. Size Larger than pibal balloon when observed thru a theodolite 17. Color metallic grey or silver 18. Shape I/S 19. Odor detected X/S 20. Apparent construction E/S 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions clear 23. Effect on clouds I/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance I/S 26. Romarks: (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.