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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.
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- p. 12 …Dry Lake, was gazing upward toward a formation of two (2) P-82's and an…
- p. 19 …Tactics Straight-line formation except last disc fluttered to side in arc
15. Sound None
16…
- p. 20 …He perceived three flat round discs which flew at terrific speed in straight line formation the…
- p. 21 …Tactics Straight-line formation except last which flutter to side in arc
15. Sound None
16…
- p. 22 …Ground temperature was $ 8 2^{\circ} \mathrm{F} $ with little or no cloud formation.
NOTE:Corroborated…
- p. 25 …Tactics preserved "loose formation"
15. Sound I/S
16. Size I/s
17. Color I/s…
- p. 26 …At first he saw 5 discs flying what appeared to be a loone formation." They called…
- p. 51 …which could not have been a cloud formation. It was a definite trail and caused the…
- p. 54 …Second group North to South
Tactics Flying in "V" formation with one object straggling in the…
- p. 55 …When I first saw the original ten objects they were flying in a "v" formation with…
- p. 69 …Weather conditions Cloud formations
Effect on clouds Went behind clouds
24. Sketches or photographs None
25…
- p. 86 …Tactics Maintained formation - flew side by side, last one: Flew in a rocking motion
15. Sound…
- p. 113 …Sound like guard in aircraft formation No sound heard
16. Size 15-25 ft in diameter…
- p. 114 …more like a guard in an aircraft formation. Due to the noise of the P-80…
- p. 117 …Tactics horizontal very close formation
15. Sound N/S
16. Size 36" in diameter
17. Color…
- p. 118 …The objects were flying very smoothly and in a close formation. The estimated size of the…
- p. 128 …at no time did it give off sufficient illumination to reflect on the cloud formation at…
- p. 134 …Gaylon Caldwell saw approximately 12 objects flying in group formation at about 2,000 or 3…
- p. 135 …Tactics changed formation
15. Sound N/S
16. Size approx that of sta5
17. Color N…
- p. 136 …However they seemed to change in formation. Thought that objects traveled much faster than birds.
- p. 139 …Tactics observed triangular formation
15. Sound N/S
16. Sizo Could not be estimated
17. Color…
- p. 140 …Three to 5 minutes another triangular formation of five or mix objects were observed going in…
- p. 146 …Said they did not fly in any particular formation and he estimated them to be about…
- p. 158 …of airplanes) As there was scattered cloud formations at 10,000 ft and the object was…
- p. 166 …But since they were in no regular formation, and seemed to be moving irregularly like a…
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