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box7 Incident Summaries 1-100
U.S. Department of War · 209 pages · text by OCR
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.
“no sound”45 pages
- p. 4 …Sound none - Witness heard no drone such as would come from any
16. Size N/S…
- p. 7 …He states: "I am of good health and sound mind and this was no hallucination"
Evaluation…
- p. 13 …Exhaust trails N/S - No visible means of propulsion observed
22. Weather conditions E/S
23…
- p. 14 …He saw no indication of any motivating force nor heard any sound coming from the discs…
- p. 16 …No sound was heard from the flying object. He thought it appeared radio-controlled because the…
- p. 18 …Could give no other description nor could he judge the speed or altitude. No sound was…
- p. 19 …Weather conditions Clear - with little or no cloud formations visible
23. Effect on clouds N/S…
- p. 20 …No sound could be heard. Ground temperature was 82 $ ^{\circ} F $ with little or no cloud…
- p. 21 …Weather conditions Clear-with little or no cloud formation visible from ground
23. Effect on clouds…
- p. 22 …No sound could be heard. Ground temperature was $ 8 2^{\circ} \mathrm{F} $ with little or…
- p. 38 …Effect on clouds N/S - no clouds
24. Sketches or photographs None
25. Manner of disappearance…
- p. 39 …There was no noise nor sound of any kind. The trail or exhaust was very unusual…
- p. 46 …Manner of disappearance only a glisten and vapor could no longer be seen
26. Romarks: (over)
- p. 47 …But there was no sound, so we kept looking until we saw a tiny object from…
- p. 48 …15. Sound Not stated
16. Size Not stated
Color Luminous
18. Shape Flying saucer - no tail…
- p. 50 …to cloud 15. Sound Not stated
16. Size Not stated
17. Color No difference in color…
- p. 56 …Sound No noise
16. Size Large size of a flood light
17. Color white later yellowish…
- p. 60 …Sound No sound
16. Size About size of runway light when viewed from 500 ft - apparently…
- p. 61 …No sound was heard from the object at any time.
Object appeared about 5 miles from…
- p. 62 …Tactics No maneuvers
15. Sound None
16. Size Not stated
17. Color - Did not see object…
- p. 63 …Tactics No maneuvers
15. Sound Not stated
16. Sizo large
17. Color amber
18. Shape like…
- p. 71 …Exhaust trails No tail -
22. Weather conditions N/S - Scattered but clear
23. Effect on clouds…
- p. 84 …Sound No noise
16. Size about 3 feet in diameter
Color Reddish cast when the object…
- p. 85 …No sound was audible. Mr. Clark thought the nearest thing it resembled was a "flying wing…
- p. 88 …Sound Noise like jet on approach - no sound heard while in view
16. Size 20-30…
- p. 89 …Although a jet-like noise was heard prior to the object's appearance no audible sound…
- p. 99 …There was no beam. No sound could be heard. A faint exhaust trail was discernible when…
- p. 101 …There was no sound. The trail, maybe from exhaust, was green (at least thru the field…
- p. 103 …No sound was heard. No photographs were taken (From a signed statement second account)
CONFIDENTIAL
- p. 104 …Exhaust trails none -"left no trails or tails like a meteor or comet"
Woathor conditions clear…
- p. 111 …No noise or sound of kind. No smoke or exhaust trails seen. Shape oval to round…
- p. 113 …Sound like guard in aircraft formation No sound heard
16. Size 15-25 ft in diameter…
- p. 114 …Due to the noise of the P-80, no sound could be heard from them. They…
- p. 119 …Sound no noise
16. Size N/S
17. Color reddish flashes of light
18. Shape N…
- p. 127 …Exhaust trails N/S - light the color of an incandescent light without appreciable blue & no reddish…
- p. 153 …Sound No noise
16. Size large
17. Color N/S
18. Shapo "like giant firecracker"
19…
- p. 164 …He could give no estimate as to size and said they could have been several miles…
- p. 175 …Sound loud swishing sound after passage
16. Size bulk of mix B-29's
17. Color…
- p. 176 …no protrusions and there was no noise altho he thought he detected a swishing sound "like…
- p. 187 …Sketches or photographs N_no
25. Manner of disappearance n/xx Disappeared when pilot started to…
- p. 189 …Sound W/S
16. Sizo N/S
17. Color N/S
18. Shape uniform - no protuberances…
- p. 191 …Sound No audible sound
16. Size slightly greater than a star
17. Color N/S - brilliant…
- p. 192 …There was no audible sound. It appeared to be at great height altho it was impossible…
- p. 193 …Weather conditions CAVU - no ground wind
23. Effect on clouds No clouds
24. Sketches or photographs…
- p. 195 …Tactics N/S
Sound None.
16. Size Resembled shooting star, observers not certain however.
17. Color…
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Savage stated that he realized that the object was not a conventional aircraft when it was at a 45° angle from him. It appeared elliptical and as it moved closer it seemed perfectly round and flat. It had no appearance of being spherical and had a ratio of diameter to the thickness of approximately 10 to 1, appearing thicker in the center. He judged the altitude to be between 10,000 to 18,000 ft and the object left no trailing effects. The bulk seemed to be that of 6 B-29's at an altitude of approximately the same height. The speed was 3 times that of a jet-propelled aircraft. There were no protrusions and there was no noise altho he thought he detected a swishing sound "like the rushing of air" after this object had passed him. The sound was not loud and did not last very long. He did not know if it was his imagination or expectation. The color appeared frosty white at all times. The object appeared to diminish in size and speed as it moved away in a direction of 350° to the north. Savage was sure that the object was not a meteor and it was his opinion that it was radically built and power - possibly atomic.
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