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box7 Incident Summaries 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 209 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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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 REMARKS: Statement given by Major J. C. Wise, Test Pilot, Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California. On 7 July 1947, at approximately 10:10, while running up the XP-84 on the ground I noticed everyone was looking up into the air. Off to the north about 10,000 to 12,000 feet altitude, was an object that I assumed at first to be a weather balloon, but after looking at it for a while I noticed that it was oscillating in a forward whirling movement without losing altitude. It was traveling about 200 to 225 MPH, and heading from west to east. The object was yellowish white in color and I would estimate that it was a sphere about 5 to 10 feet in diameter. CONFIDENTIAL 9

Cases discussed

United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
between Boise and Mountain Home
Twin Falls saucer hoax 1947
Incident 60a, Twin Falls
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings 1947
8 July 1947, Muroc AAFld, Test Pilot, disc-like object
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
check-lists of July 1947 unidentified flying objects nationwide

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Official release, 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 99%); expect the odd misread word. 209 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.