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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 7 January 1948 2. Time Between 1915 and 1930 EST Later 1935 to 1940 3. Location Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mr. Boudreaux 5. Occupation of observer Tower Operator 6. Address of observer Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 7. Place of observation Tower, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 8. Number of objects 1 10. Time in sight about 15 minutes 9. Distance of object from observer Not stated 11. Altitude Not stated Speed Not stated 13. Direction of flight Southwest 14. Tactics Bobbed up and down Sound None Sizo Enormous 17. Color white to amber as it moved southwest it changed from amber to 18. Shapo Glowing object with a cone-shaped streak to the right 19. Odor detected Not stated 20. Apparent construction Not stated 21. Exhaust trails Bluish streaks like a jet effect out from the right 22. Weather conditions Sky overcast 23. Effect on clouds Not stated 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance went out 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.