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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 7 January 1948 2. Time Around 1940 3. Location Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 4. Name of observer Mr. Eisele 5. Occupation of observer DF Operator, Lockbourne Control Tower 6. Address of observer Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, Ohio 7. Place of observation Ground, Lockbourne AAB 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer An estimated 5 miles -altho rpts Clinton Cy Airport & relayed rpt f/Columbus, 0, indicated much greater distance 10. Time in sight Around 15 minutes 11. Altitude 5,000 ft Speed 500 MPH - as indicated by rpts f/Godman Fld & Clinton Cy airport 13. Diroction of flight Appeared to hover but performed elliptical, counterclock wise course when it descended to horizon (4") remained stationary (3") returning 14. Tactics See 13 original position (3") 15. Sound No sound 16. Size About size of runway light when viewed from 500 ft - apparently enormous - see 9 above 17. Color Red to amber-yellow 18. Shape Circular 19. Odor detected N/S Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails Thin wisp of trail five times diameter of object Weather conditions high overcast Effect on clouds N/S - was under overcast Sketches or photographs None Manner of disappearance Faded and lowered into horizon 26. 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.