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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 1. Date 7 Jan 48 2. Time 1310 3. Location Madisonville, Ky. 4. Name of observer N/S 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer Madisonville 7. Placo of observation Madisonville, Ky 8. Number of objects 1 10. Timo in sight N/S 11. Altitude 4 miles Speed 10 MPH 13. Direction of flight SW 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size 100 ft from top to bottom and 43 ft across 17. Color N/S 18. Shape cone shape 19. Odor detected I/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: Someone from Madisonville advised Military F they had observed thru a Finch telescope an object described as c (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.