Documents / Official release
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.
“Anderson”4 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident 1. Date 7 July 1947 2. Time 0900 hours 3. Location Hickam Village #2 4. Name of observer Mr. Daniel Saito 5. Occupation of observer Air Communications Sections, Hawema, Hickem Fld. 6. Address of observer N/S - Could be contacted at Hickam Fld 7. Place of observation vicinity of Hickam Village#2 8. Number of objects 1 - a large balloon with a silver disc suspended 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Time in sight few minutes 11. Altitude 6,000 ft 12. Speed slow 13. Direction of flight NW toward sea 14. Tactics revolved 15. Sound N/S 16. Size 17. Color silver 18. Shape spherical - like large balloon with disc attached Odor detected N/S 20. Apparont construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Woathor conditions cloudy 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance lost among the clouds 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.