CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date 8 July 1947
Incident # 2.
2. Time Approximately noon
3. Location Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California.
4. Name of observer Major Richard R. Shoop
5. Occupation of observer Employed in Office of Chief of Tech. Engineering Div
6. Address of observer Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California.
7. Place of observation Ground
8. Number of objects One (1)
9. Distance of object from observer Five (5) to eight (8) miles.
10. Time in sight Eight (5) minutes
11. Altitude fairly high altitude
Speed slowly
13. Direction of flight North The object moved from an intermediate altitude in an oscillating 14. Tactics fashion, almost to the surface of the ground and then started climbing again.
15. Sound not stated
16. Size pursuit airplane
17. Color aluminum colored surface
18. Shape unconventional shape
Odor detected not stated
0. Apparent construction apparently metallic
21. Exhaust trails not stated
22. Weather conditions not stated
23. Effect on clouds not stated
Sketches or photographs none
CONFIDENTIAL
25. Manner of disappearance moved off slowly in the distance
26. Romarks: At approximately noon on 8 Jul 1947, Major Shoops, at the attention of Col. Gilkey observed five (5) to eight (8) miles to the north what appeared to be a thin metallic object. It appeared to be metallic because the method in which it was flying the sun was reflected from an apparently aluminium colored surface.