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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 # 330
1. Date 7 Jan 45
2. Time 1420 CST
3. Location Control Tower, Godman Fld
4. Name of observer Capt J. F. Duesler, Jr.
5. Occupation of observer Capt. USAF
6. Address of observer Godman Flá. Ky
7. Place of observation Godman Fld Control Tower
8. Number of objects 1 at 1420
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight From 1420 to 1600 CST - Over an hour and a half
11. Altitude N/S
12. Speed 360 MPH - according to statement of Mantell
13. Diroction of flight Apparently from $ 2 3 4^{\circ} $ to $ 2 5 9^{\circ} $ South to West
14. Tactics I/S
15. Sound N/S
16. Size Believed large
17. Color Silver - bright
18. Shapo like tear drop - round; later, object seemed fluid
'Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails No tail -
22. Weather conditions N/S - Scattered but clear
23. Effect on clouds N/S
24. Skotches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance Obscured by clouds
26. Romarks: (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.