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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 # 33D
1. Date 7 Jan 48
2. Time After 1407
3. Location Godman Fld
4. Name of observer Capt Cary W. Carter
5. Occupation of observer Operations Officer
6. Address of observer Godman Fld., Ky
7. Place of observation Control Tower
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer E/S
10. Time in sight 3 to 4 minutes
11. Altitude Very high
12. Spood Approx 360 MPH - f/Flight Leader's reports
13. Direction of flight $ 2 1 0^{\circ} $ f/Godman F1d
14. Tactics None
15. Sound N/S
16. Size Could not be determined
17. Color white
18. Shapo Round - at times cone shaped
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction I/S
21. Exhaust trails N/S
. Woathor conditions High scattered - xibibibibib
Effect on clouds Could be seen thru cirrus
24. Sketches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.