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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 1953 3. Location Columbus 4. Name of observer Lt. C. W. Thomas 5. Occupation of observer Pilot 6. Address of observer Flight AF 9944 Dayton to Washington 7. Place of observation Cross Country flight from Dayton to Wash. at Columbus Airways to the West 8. Number of objects 10. Timo in sight Not stated 9. Distance of object from observer About 15 miles 11. Altitude 3000 feet Spood Seemed stationery 13. Diroction of flight Stationery 14. Tactics No maneuvers 15. Sound Not stated 16. Sizo large 17. Color amber 18. Shape like a large star or planet 19. Odor detected Not stated 20. Apparent construction Not stated Exhaust trails None 22. Woathor conditions Dark and overcast Effect on clouds Not stated Skotches or photographs None Manner of disappearance Not stated 26. Remarks: Large bright light off to the west. They estimated it below them, or about 3000 ft. It seemed stationery. The light was amber and looked like a large star or planet. It was about 15 miles away from them. (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.