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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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## RESTRICTE CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 1. Date 28 June 1947 2. Time 2120 Central Time 3. Location Maxwell Fld., Montgomery, Ala. Capt Wilson H. Kayko, 0-38841, Hq TAC 4. Name of observer Capt John H. Cantrell.0-255404, Hq, TAG 0-2094172, Hq TAG 5. Occupation of observer. Redman, Randolph Fld., Texas See above 6. Address of observer See above 7. Place of observation Maxwell Field, Ala 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer I/S 10. Time in sight Over 5 minutes 11. Altitude impossible to determine - great height 12. Speed frequent bursts of speed 13. Diroction of flight changing - zig-zag course - first east. then south then southwest 14. Tactics traveled with frequent bursts of speed in a zig-zag course 15. Sound No audible sound 16. Size slightly greater than a star 17. Color N/S - brilliant light 18. Shapo N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction "light" 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions clear moon-light night 23. Effect on clouds I/S 24. Sketches of photographs None in our file altho letter of transmittal indicates one was sent 25. Manner of disappearance lost in brilliancy of the moon 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.