Location file
Muroc Air Field, Muroc, California
The Air Materiel Command issued this initial report on unidentified flying objects on 23 April 1948, prepared at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under Project SIGN, which had been directed by a Headquarters USAF letter dated 30 December 1947 signed by General L. C. Craigie on the subject of "Flying Discs." The report tabulates 100 sightings from 1947 through 1 February 1948, noting that exhaust trails were reported 23 times and that speeds ranged from hovering to supersonic.
Map coordinates
36.1162, -119.6816
1947-06-24 / unresolved
The Air Materiel Command issued this initial report on unidentified flying objects on 23 April 1948, prepared at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under Project SIGN, which had been directed by a Headquarters USAF letter dated 30 December 1947 signed by General L. C. Craigie on the subject of "Flying Discs." The report tabulates 100 sightings from 1947 through 1 February 1948, noting that exhaust trails were reported 23 times and that speeds ranged from hovering to supersonic.
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs), also referred to as 'flying discs' and 'flying saucers'
1947-07-08 / unresolved
On 8 July 1947, multiple witnesses at Muroc Army Air Field, California reported seeing silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 feet, traveling northwest toward Mojave at 300 to 400 MPH. Witnesses included 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry, S/Sgt Gerald E. Nauman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, Jannette Marie Scott, S/Sgt Joseph Ruvero, and Major Richard R. Shoop, whose sighting occurred at approximately noon. The observations are recorded across at least four numbered incident check-lists by the Department of War; Incident #1b is evaluated as "Confirmed by other sources."
2 silver objects of either spherical or disc-like shape, approximately 8000 ft altitude, speed approximately 300 MPH, heading approximately 320° due north, apparently metallic, no exhaust trails, no sound