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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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## CONFIDENTIAL CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 1. Dato 7 July 1947 2. Time between 1300 and 1400 hours EST 3. Location 1 mile east of Lakeland, Fla 4. Name of observer Mr. Hiram William Griffin 5. Occupation of observer "sign painter" previously cab-driver amateur artist. Also former 2d-class seaman in U. S. Navy 6. Address of observer 602 N. Tennessee Ave., Lakeland, Fla 7. Place of observation 1 mile east of Lakeland, Fla - ground 8. Number of objects 5 9. Distance of object from observer one mile 10. Timo in sight 15-30 seconds 11. Altitude. between 5.000 to 7.500 ft 12. Spood very fast 13. Direction of flight N/S - upward 14. Tactics climbed 2500 feet in just a few seconds 15. Sound swishing noise that seemed to sing with a more or less 16. Size M/S 17. Color "glittery" 18. Shape N/S - seemed "turtle-backed" from maximum photograph Odor detected E/S 20. Apparent construction plastic appearance Weather conditions Clear with scattered clouds Effect on clouds I/S Sketches or photographs photograph Manner of disappearance climbed out of sight Remarks: (over) CONFIDENTIAL
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.