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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 1. Date 20 Oct 47 Incident # 19 2. Time 1320 3. Location David Road, Dayton, Ohio 4. Name of observer Baxi S. C. Britton 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer David Road, Dayton 7. Place of observation ground - David Road, Dayton 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude 1 to 5 miles high - could not be determined 12. Spood Very fast 13. Diroction of flight West to East but slightly to the North 14. Tactics One object followed the other about a city block apart 15. Sound None 16. Size N/5 17. Color Reflected light 18. Shapo like cigar 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails like a slight trace of steam 22. Weather conditions CAVU 23. Effect on clouds N/S - no clouds 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.