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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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1. Date 7 Jan 48 Incident #33 2. Time Between 1345 and 1350 3. Location Godman Fld, Fort Knox, Ky 4. Name of observer T/Sgt Quinton A. Blackwell 5. Occupation of observer Chf Operator in Control Tower at Godman Fld, Ky. 6. Address of observer USAF, Airways & Air Communications Svc, ATC Detachment 733-5 AF Base Unit (103D AACS Sq) Godman Fld., Ft Knox, Ky. 7. Place of observation Tower, Godman Fld. 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude Over 15,000 ft 12. Spood In excess of P-51 13. Direction of flight South Tactics N/S continued climbing Sound Not Stated Size Tremendous 17. Color Silvery or metallic Shape N/S Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S - seemed metallic Exhaust trails N/S 2. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 4. Sketches or photographs None Manner of disappearance N/S 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.