U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by OCR, confidence 97%

No summary written yet.

From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: United States. 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.

Open the PDF at page 27 Original source ↗

CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 8a 1. Date 4 July 47 2. Time 1305 3. Location Portland, Oregon 4. Name of observer D. W. Ellis 5. Occupation of observer Patrolman 6. Address of observer Portland City Police Dept., Oregon 7. Place of observation Portland, Oregon 8. Number of objects 3 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight N/S 11. Altitude Approx 40,000 ft 12. Speed terrific 13. Direction of flight South 14. Tactics Straight-line formation except last which flutter to side in arc 15. Sound None 16. Size N.S 17. Color White 18. Shape Disc 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails None 22. Weather conditions Clear - with little or no cloud formation visible from ground 23. Effect on clouds N/S - no clouds 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: (over)

Cases discussed

United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
crew of a United Air Lines plane over Boise, Idaho
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings 1947
Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California; test pilot Major J. C. Wise, 9 July 1947
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
checklists of dozens of July 1947 disc sightings, e.g. Portland, Oregon, 4 July 47

About this file

Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 97%); expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.