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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 Info taken from reports of radio conversation between Control at Godman and Ng 869 essentially as follows: Col Hix's account. Lt Orner's account. NG 869: "Object traveling at 180 MPH - half my speed" NG 869: "high and traveling about 1/2 my speed at 12 o'clock position." Later: "Closing in to take a good look" No further word heard by Orner T/Sgt Quinton A. Blackwell: NG 869: At 1445. "Object traveling at 180 MPH Directly ahead of & above me now and moving at about 1/2 my speed." Later: "I'm trying to close in for better look" At 15,000 ft: "Object directly ahead of and above me now and moving about 1/2 my speed. It appears metallic of tremendous size. I'm trying to close in for better look" No other word heard by Blackwell from NG 869. Capt Gary W. Carter: NG 869: "Object going up and forward as fast as he was" - approx 360 MPH. "going to 20,000 ft and if no closer will abandon chase" No further contact heard by Capt Carter - *Apparently last word ever received from NG 869.
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.