DoW UAP - Release 1 38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_1-100
38_143685_BOX7_INCIDENT_SUMMARIES_1-100
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- Release: PURSUE Release 01 (war.gov/UFO, 2026-05-08)
- Pages: 209
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
Incident # 1
- Date: 8 July 1947
- Time: 0930
- Location: Muroc Air Field, Muroc, Calif
- Name of observer: 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry
- Occupation of observer: Billeting Officer in Charge, Muroc AAFld.
- Address of observer: Muroc, AAFld
- Place of observation: ground - Muroc, AAFld
- Number of objects: 2 at first - 1 sometime later
- Distance of object from observer: N/S
- Time in sight: N/S
- Altitude: Approx 8000 ft
- Speed: 300 MPH
- Direction of flight: 320° due north heading ~~SECRET~~
- Tactics: Performed a tight circle
- Sound: N/S
- Size: N/S
- Color: Silver
- Shape: disc-like or spherical
- Odor detected: N/S
- Apparent construction: N/S - Apparently metallic
- Exhaust trails: N/S
- Weather conditions: N/S
- Effect on clouds: N/S
- Sketches or photographs: None
- Manner of disappearance: in distance
- Remarks: At approximately 0930 Lt McHenry left Post Exchange (over)
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enroute to his office and before entering heard one of the local aircraft in the traffic pattern. Looking up he observed the aircraft and slightly to the left he saw 2 silver objects of either spherical or disc-like shape moving about 300 MPH at approximately 8000 ft heading about 320° due north. He immediately called S/Sgt Gerald E. Nauman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo and Miss Jannette Marie Scotte. Witnesses all verified the sighting and the direction of the objects - all three stated that the objects were moving toward Mojave, Calif.
Witness was sure it was not an optical illusion or that the objects were not weather balloons since they traveled against prevailing wind and since the speed at which they traveled and the horizontal direction taken indicated that they were not weather balloons. Furthermore they could not remain at the same altitude so consistently if they were weather balloons.
Witness then attempted to get personnel (medical officers) to further verify the sighting but by the time the additional personnel had arrived at the some the original objects had disappeared due to the speed at which they were traveling. However, two of them sighted a third object of a silver spherical or disc-like nature at approximately 8000 ft traveling in circles over the north end of the airfield. Five out of the seven personnel saw this object All looked away from the object several times to make sure there was no eye strain. He stated that this object performed too tight a circle to be any type of known aircraft.
Evaluation: Confirmed by other sources.
Witnesses: S/Sgt Gerald E. Nauman
T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo
Miss Jannette Marie Scotte
Pfc T. C. [illegible]
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
- Date: 8 July 47
- Time: 10:00
- Location: Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, Calif
- Name of observer: Jannette Marie Scott
- Occupation of observer: Secretary to 1st Lt J. C. McHenry, Billeting Officer
- Address of observer: Muroc AAFld, Muroc, Calif.
- Place of observation: Ground - Muroc
- Number of objects: 3 - two the first time - 1 later
- Distance of object from observer: N/S
- Time in sight: N/S
- Altitude: Approx 8,000 ft
- Speed: 300 to 400 MPH
- Direction of flight: Northwest - toward Mojave, Calif.
- Tactics: First 2 maintained straight horizontal course; the last performed a tight circle
- Sound: none - Witness heard no drone such as would come from any aircraft
- Size: N/S
- Color: Silver
- Shape: Disc
- Odor detected: N/S
- Apparent construction: N/S Apparently metallic
- Exhaust trails: N/S
- Weather conditions: Sunlight
- Effect on clouds: N/S
- Sketches or photographs: None
- Manner of disappearance: N/S - apparently in the distance
- Remarks: Witness was called by Lt McHenry together with T/Sgt
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Joseph Ruvolo and S/Sgt. Gerald E. Nauman to the front of the B.O.Q. "A" Bldg. Pointing up in a direction directly above the group he asked them to explain what they saw. Witness states that she saw 2 silver-colored disc-like objects flying toward Mojave, Calif, one directly back of the other, at a speed of about 300 to 400 MPH at an altitude of approximately 8,000 ft. She listened carefully for a few minutes but could hear no drone such as occasioned by any aircraft. Casting her eyes for a moment in another direction and then looking back to the same spot she was able to distinguish the same objects again. Assured that it was not eye-strain, she was convinced the objects were not weather balloons due to the horizontal position in which they traveled. Nor could they have been birds dince they reflected the sun's rays.
Some three or four mimues after the objects had nearly disappeared she saw another flying object similar to the above-mentioned objects. It was silver colored and disc-like in shape. Unlike the first two, it flew in a tight circle, neither losing nor gaining altitude, at approximately 8,000 ft. She thought it performed too tight a circle to have been any type aircraft with which she was familiar.
Evaluation: Confirmed by other sources
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Incident # 1c
- Date: 8 July 47
- Time: 0945
- Location: Muroc AAFld, Muroc, Calif 34° 54' N 117° 53' W
- Name of observer: S/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo
- Occupation of observer: NCO Charge Billeting Office
- Address of observer: Muroc Air Fld., Muroc, Calif
- Place of observation: Ground - Muroc
- Number of objects: 2
- Distance of object from observer: N/S
- Time in sight: N/S
- Altitude: Between 7500 or 8000 ft
- Speed: 350 - 400 MPH
- Direction of flight: Northwestern
- Tactics: N/S
- Sound: None
- Size: N/S
- Color: Silver
- Shape: Saucer or Disc shaped
- Odor detected: N/S
- Apparent construction: N/S - Apparently metallic
- Exhaust trails: N/S
- Weather conditions: N/S
- Effect on clouds: N/S
- Sketches or photographs: None
- Manner of disappearance: N/S
- Remarks: Witness, NCO in charge of Billeting Office, Muroc AF Base, (over)
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About 0945 Lt McHenry, Billeting Officer in Charge, upon returning from the Post Exchange contacted the witness, Sgt Ruvol and asked him to look up in the sky. Witness observed two (2) flying objects which appeared like two flying discs or saucer-shaped silver-colored objects flying in a northwestern direction at approximately 350 to 400 MPH at an altitude of about 7500 or 8000 ft. He could hear no motor roar and was positive that it was not a balloon.
He states: "I am of good health and sound mind and this was no hallucination"
Evaluation: Confirmed by other sources.
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Incident # 3.
- Date: 7 July 1947
- Time: 10:10
- Location: Muroc Army air Field, Muroc, California.
- Name of observer: Major J. C. Wise,
- Occupation of observer: Test Pilot
- Address of observer: Muroc AAF, Muroc, California.
- Place of observation: Ground - Muroc AAF, Muroc, California
- Number of objects: One (1)
- Distance of object from observer: Off to the north about 10,000 to 12,000 feet altitude.
- Time in sight: not stated
- Altitude: 10,000 to 12,000 feet
- Speed: 200 to 225 MPH
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