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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 14 June 1947 Incident #29 2. Time 1200 noon first time later at 11:15 approximately 3. Location Portland, Oregon 4. Name of observer Richard Rankin 5. Occupation of observer Pilot 9. Distance of object from observer Not stated 6. Address of observer 1808 South "M" St., Bakersfield, California 7. Place of observation Ground Front yard 10. Timo in sight Not stated 8. Number of objects 10 first time 7 second time 11. Altitude 8500 feet 12. Spood 350 miles per hour 13. Direction of flight First group South to North. Second group North to South Tactics Flying in "V" formation with one object straggling in the rear Sound Not stated 16. Size Resembled the XF5U-1 17. Color Not stated 18. Shapo resembled the XF5U-1, the so called "Flying Flapjack" 19. Odor detected Not Stated 20. Apparent construction flying machines 21. Exhaust trails Not stated 22. Weather conditions Clear and Sunny 23. Effect on clouds Not Stated 24. Sketches or photographs None Manner of disappearance Not Stated 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.