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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 # 1. Date S July 47 2. Time 0945 3. Location Muroc AAF1d, Muroc, Calif 340 54' N 1170 53' W 4. Name of observer S/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo 5. Occupation of observer NCO Charge Billeting Office 6. Address of observer Muroc Air Fld., Muroc, Calif 7. Place of observation Ground - Muroc 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude Between 7500 or 8000 ft 12. Speed 350-400 MPH 13. Direction of flight Northwestern 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound None 16. Size N/S 17. Color Silver 18. Shape Saucer or Disc shaped 19. Odor dotected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S - Apparently metallic 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. - Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: Witness, NCO in charge of Billeting Office, Muroc AF Base,
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.