38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_1-100
Box 7 of the incident summaries, holding 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms for incidents 1 to 100, mostly from June 1947 to January 1948, including Muroc Air Field, Portland, Oregon, and Godman Field, Kentucky.
Document Highlights
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Short overview
A 209-page set of incident summaries numbered 1 to 100, each built around a standardized “Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects,” covering sightings from May 1947 to January 1948 across the United States and beyond.
Why this is interesting
Each checklist records the same 26 points, from date, time and place through number, altitude, speed, color and shape of the objects to sound, exhaust trails and manner of disappearance, often followed by a narrative and an assessment such as “Confirmed by other sources.” The set opens with several reports from Muroc Army Air Field on July 7–8, 1947, among them test pilot Maj. J. C. Wise, who first took an object for a weather balloon until he saw it oscillating without losing altitude. A large cluster covers July 4, 1947, around Portland, Oregon; another covers January 7, 1948, at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Lockbourne and Clinton County, where the Godman file notes that flight leader Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, pursuing an object, apparently blacked out at 20,000 feet or flew on because it seemed to be getting closer, and then crashed through lack of oxygen, and that this did not seem to tally with the explanation “Venus or a comet.” Other entries come from Newfoundland, Alaska, Hawaii and, via the U.S. military attaché in Helsinki, from Finland.
Selected passages
- “I noticed that it was oscillating in a forward whirling movement without losing altitude.”
- “Eyewitnesses state flames were ejected and grey streaks left in the sky”