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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 January 1948
Incident # 33F
2. Time 1515 1445
3. Location Godman Field, Ky.
4. Name of observer Flight Leader NG 569 (Capt. Thomas F. Mantell
5. Occupation of observer Flight Leader
6. Address of observer
7. Place of observation Over Godman Field, Ky.
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer Not stated
10. Time in sight Not stated Apparently over 1 hour and a half
Altitude above 15000 20,000 ft
Spcod Approximately 500 mph
13. Direction of flight approximately 210 $ ^{\circ} $ from Godman Field
14. Tactics None
15. Sound Not stated
16. Size Tremendous
17. Color Metallic
18. Shapo Not stated
19. Odor detected Not stated
20. Apparent construction metallic
Exhaust trails Not stated
22. Weather conditions Not stated
Effect on clouds Not stated
Sketches or photographs None
Manner of disappearance Not stated
26. Remarks: This information taken from a report describing a radio conversation between Flt. leader NG S69 who investigated the object at the request of Godman Field Tower. The Flt. Leader Capt. Thomas F. Mantell crash ed and was killed after his last radio contact with Godman Field at 1515 hrs (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.