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box7 Incident Summaries 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 209 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 85 …to the object by his partner, Mr. Anderson. It appeared to be a black object which…
  • p. 133 …Richard Anderson 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer Logan, Utah 7. Place…
  • p. 134 Mr. & Mrs. Anderson stated that they in company with a Mr. & Mrs. Gaylon Caldwell saw approximately…
  • p. 205 …Location Anderson Road, Houston, Texas 4. Name of observer Mr. & Mrs. Elmer L. Brimberry 5. Occupation…

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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incident # 36

1. Date Unknown

2. Time After dark

3. Location Boise, Idaho

4. Name of observer CAA Observer

5. Occupation of observer Not stated

6. Address of observer Not stated

7. Place of observation between Boise and Mountain Home

8. Number of objects 1

9. Distance of object from observer Not stated

10. Time in sight Not stated

11. Altitude Not stated

12. Spood Not stated

13. Direction of flight southwest and disappeared in northeast

14. Tactics N/S

15. Sound Not stated

16. Size Not stated

17. Color Bluish green

18. Shape not stated.

19. Odor dottoed Not stated

20. Apparent construction Not stated

21. Exhaust trails Not stated

22. Weather conditions Not stated

23. Effect on clouds Not stated

24. Sketches or photographs None

25. Manner of disappearance Not stated

26. Romarks: Mr. Dave Johnson of the "Statesman Newspaper" in Boise reported that a CAA official had seen an object that was giving off a pulsating bluish-green light that appeared in the southwest and disappeared in the northeast over the mountains between Boise and Mountain Home.

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