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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 12 June 1947 Incident #24 2. Time 6:15 P.M. evening 3. Location Weiser, Idaho 4. Name of observer Mrs. Herbert Erickson 5. Occupation of observer Not Stated 6. Address of observer R. #2, Weiser, Idaho 7. Place of observation Weiser, Idaho toward the west 8. Number of objects 1 at first later 1 more 9. Distance of object from observer Not stated 10. Timo in sight few seconds 11. Altitude Not stated 12. Spood Not stated 13. Direction of flight South easterly course 14. Tactics shooting up and down 15. Sound None 16. Size Not stated to far away to determine 17. Color Glistening in the sun Shape Not stated to far away to determine 19. Odor detected Not stated 20. Apparent construction Tiny object which emitted vapor 21. Exhaust trails Vapor looked like clouds, kept shape and seemed to glide across the sky to the east. 22. Weather conditions Clear 23. Effect on clouds Not stated 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance only a glisten and vapor could no longer be seen 26. Romarks: (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.