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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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## RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 7 Jan 45 2. Time Shortly after 1400 CST 3. Location Godman Fld., Ft Knox, Ky. 4. Name of observer Lt Paul I. Ormer 5. Occupation of observer Detachment Commander 6. Address of observer Godmen Fld., Ft Klox, Ky. 7. Place of observation Control Tower 8. Number of objects 1 See Note attached. 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight m/s 11. Altitude E/S 12. Spood half speed of P-51 13. Diroction of flight I/S 14. Tactics Appeared stationary 15. Sound M/S 16. Sizo M/S 17. Color white 18. Shapo like parachute - round 19. Odor dotoctod x/s 20. Apparent construction I/s 21. Exhaust trails Seemed to be some red light around the lower part of it. 22. Weather conditions High - scattered but clear 23. Effect on clouds None 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance I/S 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.