What does DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 reveal?

Incident #1 logs 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry sighting two silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 ft heading 320 degrees over Muroc AAFld on July 8, 1947 at 0930, followed by a third object performing a tight circle. The sighting was confirmed by S/Sgt Gerald E. Newman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, and Miss Jeannette Marie Scotte. Incident #1a…

Which agency produced DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100?

DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 is a primary-source record from Department of War. Its original classification was CONFIDENTIAL.

When is DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 dated?

DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 is dated 1947-07.

What programs and topics appear in DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100?

DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 references disc, sphere, silver, formation flight, Muroc AAFld and Portland Oregon.

What does DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 say, in its own words?

"The discs would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full disc, then a half-moon shape, then nothing at all," (source p. 24).

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DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100

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A Department of War compendium of incident summaries documenting unidentified flying object sightings reported in early July 1947, each logged on a standardized Check-List form with witness narratives.

Brief

This 209-page Department of War file collects the opening tranche of formal UAP incident summaries from July 1947, beginning with sightings at Muroc Army Air Field in California on July 7-8 and continuing through the July 4 wave of disc reports across Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, and Seattle, Washington. Each incident is recorded on a Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects form capturing date, time, location, observer identity and occupation, altitude, speed, direction, tactics, sound, color, and shape, followed by witness narratives. Observers include test pilots, billeting officers, police patrolmen with private pilot licenses, a Coast Guardsman, a United Airlines captain and crew, and a flight test officer at Rogers Dry Lake. Reports consistently describe silver or aluminum disc-shaped or spherical objects, often in formation, traveling at high speed against prevailing winds with no exhaust trails or audible engine noise.

Metadata

Agency: Department of War
Release: 5/8/26
Type: PDF • .pdf
Length: 209 pages
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: disc, sphere, silver, formation flight, Muroc AAFld, Portland Oregon, Rogers Dry Lake, Lake Washington, 1947, police witnesses, pilot witnesses

Key points

Incident #1 logs 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry sighting two silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 ft heading 320 degrees over Muroc AAFld on July 8, 1947 at 0930, followed by a third object performing a tight circle. The sighting was confirmed by S/Sgt Gerald E. Newman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, and Miss Jeannette Marie Scotte.p.2
Incident #1a corroborates Jeanette Marie Scott's account of two silver disc-like objects flying northwest at 300 to 400 MPH at 8,000 ft toward Mojave, California, with a third object performing a tight circle without losing altitude.p.4
Incident #1c records S/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, NCO in charge of the Billeting Office, observing two saucer or disc-shaped silver objects flying northwest at 350-400 MPH between 7,500 and 8,000 ft.p.6
Incident #2 on July 8, 1947 at approximately 1200 hours describes a single aluminum-colored unconventional-shape object observed from the ground at Muroc, oscillating from intermediate altitude almost to the ground and climbing again, in sight for eight minutes.p.8
Incident #3a logs test pilot Major J. C. Wise observing a yellowish-white sphere 5 to 10 feet in diameter at 10,000 to 12,000 feet on July 7, 1947 at 1040, oscillating in a forward whirling movement at 200 to 225 MPH.p.9
Incident #4a records Captain John Paul Stapp of Flight Test at Rogers Dry Lake observing a silvery ovular object with two upper-surface projections on July 8, 1947 at 1150, visible for 90 seconds and tracked by four of five observers in an observation truck.p.11
Incident #5 documents Portland Patrolman Kenneth A. McDowell sighting five large round discs east of the police station on July 4, 1947 at 1305, dipping in an oscillating manner at great speed, prompting a general police radio broadcast.p.13
Incident #8 and #8a are corroborated Portland Police observations by Patrolmen W. A. Lisey and D. M. Ellis, both private pilots, of three flat round white discs at roughly 9,000 to 40,000 ft on July 4, 1947 at 1305, with the trailing disc fluttering in a side-way arc.

Verbatim

The discs would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full disc, then a half-moon shape, then nothing at all,
p.24
I am of good health and sound mind and this was no hallucination
p.7
5 "somethings" which were "thin and smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top."
p.26
He stated that this object performed too tight a circle to be any type of known aircraft.
p.3
No smoke, flames, propeller arcs, engine noise, or other claimable or visible means of propulsion were noted.
p.12

Most interesting

The file is sequenced chronologically starting with Incident #1, suggesting it is the opening volume of the Department of War's numbered UAP incident catalog.
The Muroc Army Air Field sightings on July 7-8, 1947 occurred at the same facility where Captain John Paul Stapp, later famous for human deceleration research, recorded his own observation from a flight-test truck.
Four of the early Portland-area witnesses were sworn law enforcement officers, and two of them, Patrolmen W. A. Lisey and D. M. Ellis, held private pilot licenses, which the report notes as a reliability marker.
United Airlines Captain E. J. Smith's account on July 4, 1947 involved the entire flight crew plus stewardess Marty Morrow, who was called to the cockpit to confirm the sighting, and the discs were tracked for roughly 45 miles.
Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman attempted to photograph his sighting over Lake Washington, producing what the file describes as a tiny light spot against the evening sky.

Cross-references

PDFDoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 101-172Department of War
PDFDoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 173-233Department of War
PDFAir Materiel Command's Disc Files, 1946-47Department of War
PDFDepartment of War Disc Intake, 1948Department of War
PDF415th Night Fighter 'Foofighters' File, 1944-45

Common questions

What is DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100?: A Department of War compendium of incident summaries documenting unidentified flying object sightings reported in early July 1947, each logged on a standardized Check-List form with witness narratives.
What does DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 reveal?: Incident #1 logs 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry sighting two silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 ft heading 320 degrees over Muroc AAFld on July 8, 1947 at 0930, followed by a third object performing a tight circle. The sighting was confirmed by S/Sgt Gerald E. Newman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, and Miss Jeannette Marie Scotte. Incident #1a…
Which agency produced DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100?: DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 is a primary-source record from Department of War. Its original classification was CONFIDENTIAL.
When is DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 dated?: DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 is dated 1947-07.
What programs and topics appear in DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100?: DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 references disc, sphere, silver, formation flight, Muroc AAFld and Portland Oregon.
What does DoW UFO Incident Summaries, Cases 1-100 say, in its own words?: "The discs would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full disc, then a half-moon shape, then nothing at all," (source p. 24).

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