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box7 Incident Summaries 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 209 pages · text by OCR

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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“Nevers”5 pages

  • p. 37 …found it to be approximately 150 MPH. Never before had he observed planes flying so close…
  • p. 47 …She mentioned that she had never seen that before, so we stopped to look and listen…
  • p. 111 …I think it was a flying saucer as I have never seen anything equal to it…
  • p. 142 …Witness states he never observed a comet which acted in this manner and was of the…
  • p. 162 …middle-aged man The boys stated that they had never before seen one of the discs.
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)

Cases discussed

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