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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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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 94 1. Date 30 Dec 47 2. Time 1926 PST 5. Location 42" 9.3' N and 114° 22.2' W 4. Name of observer Lt Col W.W. Jones Maj A. A. Andras 5. Occupation of observer USAF pilots 6. Address of observer Eq. Eastern Pacific Wing of ATC 7. Place of observation See #3 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer I/S - at 2:30 position from plane 10. Time in sight 2 seconds 11. Altitude A/C was at 13,000 '. Object was descending vertically. Spcod Very high - unknown 13. Direction of flight Vertically down Direction of flight Vertically down Tactics seemed to slow as it neared the ground 15. Sound E/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color N/S trailed intense green and blue flames 18. Shape I/S 19. Odor dotected I/S 20. Apparent construction I/S 21. Exhaust trails See #17 - trailed intense green and blue flames 22. Weather conditions I/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance 1/S 26. Romarks: (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.