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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 #14 1. Date 4 July 47 2. Time 1630 3. Location Portland, Oregon 4. Name of observer Mrs. Lawrence J. Hayward 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer 6124 N. E.21st Ave., Portland 7. Place of observation Portland, Oregon - ground 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude N/S 12. Spood Slow 13. Direction of flight N/S 14. Tactics Flipping around 15. Sound N/S 16. Size dime 17. Color silvery 18. Shape round. 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S - apparently metallic 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S RESTRICTED 26. Remarks: At 4:30 P.M. Mrs Lawrence J. Hayward, 6124 NE 21st Ave. reported sighting a disc "like a new dim flipping around" in the air over the Sandy district. She said it seemed to be moving slowly.
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.