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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 1. Date 29 June 1947 Incident # 90 2. Time 1:00 and 1:30 P.M. 3. Location Highway 17 between Las Cruces, N. M. & White Sands V-2 firing grounds 4. Name of observer Mr. J. R. Kauke, Mr. Zohn, Mr. C. C. Rockwood, & Mrs. Nancy Rockwood. 5. Occupation of observer Mr. Zohn - Admin Assis in Rocket Sonde Section NRI Mr. Rockwood, NRL Rocket Sonde high altitude spectrograph scientist, & 6. Address of observer N/S Mr. Kauke, Telemetering supervisi 7. Place of observation highway 17-ground 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Time in sight 30 seconds 11. Altitude between 8,000 and 10,000 ft (Mr. Zohn put little credence in the estimates) 12. Speed rapid velocity 13. Diroction of flight northerly direction 14. Tactics horizontal flight 15. Sound W/S 16. Sizo N/S 17. Color N/S 18. Shape uniform - no protuberances such as wings of a plane 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Mr. Kauke thought at one time there were vapor trails 22. Weather conditions sunlight 23. Effect on clouds I/S 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance receded until lost from sight 26. Remarks: (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.