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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 12 Nov 47 Incident # 35 2. Time Early 3. Location 40 miles south of Cape Blanco, Oregon, 20 miles offshore. 4. Name of observer Second Officer Claude Lee Williamson 5. Occupation of observer Second Officer 6. Address of observer N/S (Excerpt from "Oregon Journal" 13 Nov 47) . Place of observation At sea, 20 miles offshore, 40 miles south of 8. Number of objects 2 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Timo in sight 45 seconds 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed 700 to 900 MPH 13. Direction of flight from north horizon in westerly direction 14. Tactics Performed a long, low arc 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color N/S 18. Shapo ball 19. Odor dotectod N/S Apparent construction fire 1. Exhaust trails jet-like streams of fire Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S Sketches or photographs None Manner of disappearance N/S Remarks: (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.