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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 8 July 47 Incident # 1e 2. Time 10:00 3. Location Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, Calif 4. Name of observer Jannette Marie Scott 5. Occupation of observer Secretary to 1st Lt J. C. McHenry, Billeting 6. Address of observer Muroc AAF1d, Muroc, Calif. 7. Place of observation Ground - Muroc 8. Number of objects 3 - two the first time - 1 later 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude Approx 8,000 ft 12. Speed 300 to 400 MPH 13. Diroction of flight Northwest - toward Mojave, Calif. 14. Tactics First 2 maintained straight horizontal course; the last performed a tight circle 15. Sound none - Witness heard no drone such as would come from any 16. Size N/S 17. Color Silver 18. Shape Disc 19. Oder detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S Apparently metallic 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions Sunlight 23. Effect on clouds N/S Skotches or photographs N ne Manner of disappearance. N/S - apparently in the distance 26. Remarks: Witness was called by Lt McHenry together with T/Sgt
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.