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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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1. Date 9 July 47 2. Time Between 11:15 and 11:40 3. Location Grand Falls, Newfoundland 4. Name of observer Eric Kearsey 5. Occupation of observer Constable 6. Address of observer Newfoundland Constabulary, Grand Falls 7. Place of observation Grand Falls. 8. Number of objects 5. 4 seen at first 1, later 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight brief period 11. Altitude N/S Spood terrific 13. Direction of flight First four - flying in easterly direction Last object: N/S 14. Tactics Maintained formation - flew side by side, last one: Flew in a rocking motion 15. Sound N/S Size about size of barrel head Color N/S - seemed phosphorescent Shape round - about size Odor detected Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails N/S However, there appeared to be a phosphorescent glow Woathor conditions N/S Effect on clouds N/S Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 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.