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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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## RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 1. Date N/S - 2. Time evening 6. Location Germany Name of observer Robert J. Sroka 5. Occupation of observer N/S . Address of observer 469 N. Washington Ave., Waukesha, Wis. 7. Place of observation Germany - 20 miles NW of Habberbishopshiem 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 3 to 10 miles to their front to 1 mile 10. Timo in sight approximately 9000 feet high 11. Altitude Approximately 5.000 ft high at first then descending 12. Spood slow 13. Direction of flight E/S 14. Tactics oscillating descent - dropping in a spiral motion 15. Sound I/s 16. Sizo I/S 17. Color N/S 18. Shapo M/S 19. Odor detected E/S 20. Apparent construction W/S 21. Exhaust trails I/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Appeared to drop 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.