CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date 8 July 1947
2. Time 11:50
Incident # 4.
3. Location Area # 3, Rogers Dry Lake, California.
4. Name of observer Captain John Paul Strapp
5. Occupation of observer Flight Test
6. Address of observer Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California.
7. Place of observation Observation Truck, Area #3, Rodgers Dry Lake, Calif.
8. Number of objects One (1)
9. Distance of object from observer 20,000 feet
11. Altitude lower than 20,000
12. Speed slower than the maximum velocity 50-60 aircraft
13. Direction of flight Slightly north of due west against prevailing wind
14. Tactics rotation or oscillation of slow type (suggested by 2 fins or nobs on the upper surface which crossed each other at intervals not stated
16. Size About 50
Color silvery
Shape resembled a parachute canopy at first then assumed ovular shape
Odor detected not stated
Apparent construction
It presented a distinct ovular outline, with two (2) projections on the upper surface which might have been thick fins or nobs. These crossed each other at intervals, suggesting either rotation or oscillation
Exhaust trails intervals, suggesting either rotation or oscillation of slow type.
Weather conditions not stated
23. Effect on clouds not stated
Sketches or photographs none
25. Manner of disappearance Dropped to a level such that comes into line of vision of the mountain tops.
26. Romarks: (over)
CONFIDENTIAL