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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 10 July 1947 Incident #26 2. Time Between 3:00 and 5:00 PM in the afternoon 3. Location Pan American Airways, Harmon Field, Newfoundland 4. Namo of observer Robert W. Leidy 5. Occupation of observer Station Mechanic 6. Address of observer APO 864, c/o Postmaster, New York, New York 7. Place of observation Traveling in a car,returning from fishing. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer Not Stated 10. Time in sight Not stated 11. Altitude Not stated 12. Speed Terrific rate of speed in a circle because of the arcs in the path. 13. Direction of flight Not stated 14. Tactics Definite trail and caused clouds to break open as it went through. It looked to be traveling in a circle and left sharp edges to cloud 15. Sound Not stated 16. Size Not stated 17. Color No difference in color looked as if object broke the cloud and left this opening. 18. Shape Trail horizontal 19. Odor detected Not stated 20. Apparent construction object or flying discs 21. Exhaust trails bluish streak 22. Weather conditions Clear with clouds 23. Effect on clouds Cut a path through the cloud & you could see the trail right through the clouds, and it left sharp edges on the clouds. 24. Skotche's or photographs Kodachrome film 25. Mannor of disappearance Not stated 26. Remarks: (over) CONFIDENTIAL
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.