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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 Incidont # 1. Date 20 Oct 47 2. Time 1100 3. Location Xenis, Ohio 4. Name of observer Ruth Atkinson 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer R1, Xenia, Ohio 7. Place of observation Xenia, Ohio 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 1000 to 1500 ft 12. Speod fast 13. Direction of flight Southwest 14. Tactics straight course 15. Sound None 16. Size 12" in dia. 17. Color Silver 18. Shape round 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 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 26. Remarks: Could not see any propellers or dome which observer thought strange nor was the object making any noise at all. NOTE: Observer mentions two witnesses. 39
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.