U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incident # 2a

1. Date 8 July 1947

2. Time Approximately noon

3. Location Murco Army Air Field, Murco, California.

4. Name of observer Col Gilkey to Capt Black

5. Occupation of observer Commanding Officer, Murco Army air Field, Calif.

6. Address of observer Murco AAF, Murco, California.

7. Location of observation Ground

8. Number of objects one (1)

9. Distance of object from observer not stated

10. Time in sight not stated

11. Altitude not stated

12. Speed not stated

13. Direction of flight not stated

14. Tactics The object Col Gilkey saw he stated he believed at the time to be paper and of no significance or the object not important enough to be reported.

15. Sound not stated

16. Size not stated

17. Color not stated

18. Shape not stated

19. Odor detected not stated

20. Apparent construction

21. Exhaust trails not stated

22. Weather conditions not stated

23. Effect on clouds not stated

24. Sketches or photographs none

25. Manner of disappearance not stated

26. Remarks: The following is a statement given orally by Colonel Gilkey, to Captain Harry D. Black, Intelligence officer on 11 August 1947. Colonel Gilkey, stated that the object he saw, he believed at the time to be paper and of no significance or the objects not important enough to be reported. There was nothing clearly enough seen by the Colonel to make any further