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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 1. Date 4 July 1947 2. Time 11:45 p.m. 3. Location East over West Trenton, New Jersey 4. Name of observer Miss Marion Marshall 5. Occupation of observer Not stated 6. Address of observer WINJ Western Electric, Trenton, New Jersey 7. Place of observation Southbound platform of the West Trenton station of the Reading railroad 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Not Stated 10. Time in sight Not Stated 11. Altitude High 12. Spood Fast 13. Direction of flight East over West Trenton 14. Tactics Not stated 15. Sound Not stated 16. Size Not stated Color Luminous 18. Shape Flying saucer - no tail or halo 19. Odor dotected Not stated 20. Apparent construction Not stated 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Bright Moonlight 23. Effect on clouds Not stated 24. Skotches or photographs None 5. Manner of disappearance Not stated 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.