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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 11 October 1947 Incident #37 2. Time 1200 3. Location Phoenix, Arizona 4. Namg of observer J. L. Clark 5. Occupation of observer Mine owner (Pilot) 6. Address of observer Route 12, Box 531, Phoenix 7. Place of observation at a mine located approx. 11 miles north or Northeast of Cave Creek, Arizona 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer 25 degree angle 10. Time in sight 45 seconds to 1 minute 11. Altitude 8/10,000 feet 12. Speed 350 miles an hour 13. Direction of flight northwest toward the southeast 14. Tactics Not stated 15. Sound No noise 16. Size about 3 feet in diameter Color Reddish cast when the object had blue for background. Black when it had a white cloud for a background 19. Odor detected Not stated 20. Apparent construction Not stated Exhaust trails Not stated 22. Weather conditions Not stated with the exception of some clouds 23. Effoot on clouds Not stated 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance Not stated 26. 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.