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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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## RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. Date 29 June 1947 Inoident # 43 2. Time 1645 - 1645 P. M. 3. Location 7 miles out of Clarion Iowa in direction of Mason City, Iowa 4. Name of observer Dale Bays 5. Occupation of observer Had been bus driver 6. Address of observer Box 12, Crocker, Mo. 8. Number of objects 5 in first group; 13 in second 7. Place of observation 7 miles out of Clarion - 42° 43' N - 93° 44' W 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight several minutes 11. Altitude 1200 ft Spcod 300 MPH 13. Direction of flight South by Southeast and North Northwest Tactics Objserved single file Sound sound like that of an electric motor or dynamo 6. Size From 175 to 250 ft in diameter by 12 feet in thickness Color "dirty" white 18. Shape between a circle and an oval - inverted saucer Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S Exhaust trails N/S 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs N/S 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.