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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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1. Date 4 July 1947 2. Time 1400 3. Location Portland, Oregon 4. Name of observer E. A. Evans 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer 3433 SW Macadam Ave. 7. Place of observation Portland, Oregon - ground 8. Number of objects 1 at first 2 later 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 2-4 seconds 11. Altitude one object appeared not too high, 2 others appeared far away & very high 12. Spood very fast 13. Diroction of flight 1, west to east, 2 - north 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/5 17. Color Resembled metallic disc glinting in sunlight 18. Shapo disc 19. Odor detected n/s 20. Apparent construction n/s - unless metallic 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/5 24. Skotches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance, out of sight within 2 to 4 seconds 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.