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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 CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 78 1. Date: 30 June 1947 2. Time: 0910 MST 3. Location: Near Williams Field over Grand Canyon, Arizona 4. Name of observer: Lt William G. McGinty, USN 5. Occupation of observer: P-80 student, Williams Fld, Chandler, Ariz. 6. Address of observer: Williams Fld., Chandler, Ariz. 7. Place of observation: plane 8. Number of objects: 2 9. Distance of object from observer: N/S 10. Time in sight: N/S 11. Altitude: decreasing from 25,000 ft 12. Speed: "inconceivable" 13. Direction of flight: straight down 14. Tactics: N/S 15. Sound: N/S 16. Size: 8 ft in dia. 17. Color: Light gray 18. Shape: circular 19. Odor detected: N/S 20. Apparent construction: N/S 21. Exhaust trails: N/S 22. Weather conditions: N/S 23. Effect on clouds: N/S 24. Sketches or photographs: none 25. Manner of disappearance: Seemed to have hit ground some 25 miles south of the South Rim of Grand Canyon, Arizona 26. Remarks: (over) CONFIDENTIAL

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.