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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 # 30 1. Date 7 January 1948 2. Time 1925 EST 3. Location Lockbourne Army Air Base, Columbus, Ohio 4. Name of observer Charles E. McGee, Capt. USAF 5. Occupation of observer Asst. Operations Officer (Pilot) 6. Address of observer Airdrome Operations, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 7. Place of observation Runway 23 Overhead approach 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer first 4-5 miles Southwest of Base second time 6-7 miles West and moved westerly in a hovering manner 11. Altitude 3000 ft approximately Speed slow 13. Diroction of flight West 14. Tactics Flashed on and off, on westward flight appeared to be fading and descending 15. Sound No noise 16. Size Large size of a flood light 17. Color white later yellowish to orange Shapo Oval as if looking at spot light Odor detected Not stated Apparent construction like a spot light Exhaust trails Not stated Bluish streaks like a jet effect out from right (according to Mr. Boudreaux on "squawk" box. Weather conditions Sky solid overcast Effect on clouds Not stated Sketches or photographs None Manner of disappearance descending and burning out Remarks: (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.