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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 Jan 48 Incident #48 2. Time between 7:20 and 7:55 P.M. 3. Location Wilminton, Ohio 4. Name of observer s Gale F. Walter, James Hudson M/Sgt Irvin H. Lewis, S/Sgt John P. Haag, Sgt Harold E. Olvis & T/Sgt 5. Occupation of observer Control Tower operators Leroy Ziegler 6. Address of observer Clinton County Air Base 7. Place of observation Clinton County AF Base Control Tower 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 35 minutes 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed terrific bursts of speed 13. Direction of flight SW 14. Tactics hung suspended in the air at intervals and then gained and lost altitude at seeminginly terrific bursts of speed 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color red 18. Shape cone 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction "fire" 21. Exhaust trails gaseous green mist 22. Weather conditions Heavy layer of clouds Effoct on clouds intense brightness of sky phenomena pierced thru a heavy layer of clouds passing intermittently over the area Sketches or photographs none Manner of disappearance disappeared over horizon 26. Romarks: (Over) CONFIDENTIAL
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.