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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.

RESTRICTED CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 100 1. Date 5 Jan 1948 2. Time N/S 3. Location Military Attache, Helsinki Finland (official source of information) 4. Name of observer N/S 5. Occupation of observer N/S 6. Address of observer N/S 7. Place of observation Pietarsaari, Finland 8. Number of objects One (1) 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight 10 Seconds 11. Altitude N/S 12. Speed N/S 13. Direction of flight north to south 14. Tactics N/S 15. Sound N/S 16. Size N/S 17. Color Shining 18. Shape N/S 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails Grey streaks were left in the sky. 22. Weather conditions N/S 23. Effect on clouds N/S 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance N/S 26. Remarks: A shining object was seen near Pietarsaari 5th Jan which was observed 5th Jan for 10 seconds. It was going from north to south. Eyewitnesses state flames were ejected and grey streaks left in the sky RESTRICTED 207 Note: Handwritten annotations on the right margin are transcribed as: ``` 5000 m Incident # 99 ``` These are included as part of the document content as they appear on the page.

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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.