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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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# CONFIDENTIAL CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 7 July 1947 Incident # 2. Time 1600 3. Location Phoenix, Arizona 4. Name of observer William Albert Rhodes 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer 4333 N.14th St., Phoenix, Arizona 7. Place of observation 37°27' N 112°3' W 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude 2,000 ft to 5,000 ft 12. Spood 400-600 MPH 13. Diroction of flight NXX NE to West 14. Tactics Spiraled down from 5000' to 2000 ft and then ascended at 45 angle 15. Sound Noise like jet on approach - no sound heard while in view 16. Size 20-30 ft 17. Color grey 18. Shape elliptical 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions Cumulus clouds 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs, Photos (2) 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Romarks: (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.