DOW-UAP-D087, U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100
Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
Text of the document
Machine-extracted from the PDF war.gov published (its text layer or OCR), so expect errors, especially in names, numbers and handwriting; the PDF is the authoritative copy. Lines that did not extract as readable text are left out. Showing about 990 words from pages 57, 72, 90, 104, 171, 185, 224, 239, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253 of 253.
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PAGE 72
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wa "Jama f# a CIClall PAGE 104 about. It. •• oi- l round 1n •\&pe, in oolar
equhalent ,1.. wow.d be t. the <lt.uc.te ot aboui ~ teat; and it N«Deki to PAGE 171 UYer had seen~ to OOlllpllN with it) nor •it• plane. Re ,tat.
a lhootuic •tar hit mco cloMr at an ••t te4 belent of ftJ'OUl'ld 6,cxx, :rt.
(&la and foe) PAGE 185 3 obJeot. pe4ll.e4 off the lett r:w1 proceeded in a uiore nortnerly direction.
Five mimtea uter ll)Other group of 3 object• were eeeu -proeee~ in
in the same direct.1on. then a fev IUllUt&e later the three w1t.nesse• aav
(1) the, fie'i' on a lM•l line amt did not oope~r to drop
·.tere DOt tta reflection of cit)' l1Vtt• •ince: PAGE 224 o! the :nhsilo and an ndditbncl. spot in the <:E'nter v..ic.~ he bel.ieved to 'be
the t.c.il. ~ object-a did not 4':,v& ~a arid the wit.n~es thOU&ht thet were Jet PAGE 239 crew cl\.fsd uttention to a 11il PAGE 246 C~K-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FUING OBJEC'IS
3. Location 30 miles west of Lovelock, Nevada
6. Address of Observer N/S
8. Number of objects l
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
ll. ~~~b.tgei300 feet above ground
13. Direction of flight: N/S
l.4. Tactics None
23. Effect on clouds N/S
Sketches or photographs None
25. M:lnner of disappearance Exploded
26. Remarks: (over) PAGE 247 The Fairfield Control Tower obtained a r eport at approx:ilnstezy 2300 EST
had seen an object explode in the air at a height of 1200 to 1300 feet.
Time: 1926. (Would appear to be connedted With Incidents 94, 95 and 97• ) PAGE 248 CHECK-LIST UNIDENI'IFIED FLITNG OBJECTS
Time 1925 fuT
Location Between Medford, Oregon & Mt Shasta, Calif
Name of observer N/S (United Airline Flight #191)
Occupation of observer Pilot on Flight #191 (as above)
Address of observer N/S
g. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/S
Direction of flight N/S
23. Effect on clcuds N/S
Sketches or photographs None
Manner of disappearance N/S - saw flash - presumably an explosion PAGE 249 The Fairfield Control Tower obtained a report from cakland Airport
United Airlines Flight 19 proceeding on airways between Medford, Oregon,
and Mt Shasta, observed a flash at 19'25 PST just north 0£ their position. PAGE 250 CHECK LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJEC'.IS
2. Time Just before break of day
Location Anderson Road., Houston, Texas
Occupation of observer Employe of Immigration Svc., Dept of Justice
Address of Observer Anderson Road, Houston, Te:xas
Fl.ace of observation Their home
Number of objects l
Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/S
N/S (It appeared to fall in a field adjacent to
their residence)
13. Direction of .flight Downward
]4. Tactics tlspinningll
16. Size 26 to 30 inches in diameter
17. Color Fire-colored
18. Shape Round
Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction Fireball
Tail of approximately 20 feet in length
which appeared to diminish as it approached
22. ileather conditiona N/S the ground
23. Effect on clouds N/S
Sketches or photographs None
J,!anner of disappearance Suddenly "went out11 just before it reached earth.
26. Remarks (over) PAGE 251 Incident occurred just before break of day. Object appeared to .Mrs Brimberry
as a large round ball of fire about 26 to 30 inches in diameter with a
11tai l 11 of approximately 20 feet in length. This 11tai111 seerood to diminish as
it approached the ground. It appeared to have sudde~ llgone out11 just
before it reached the earth. It possibly could have hit the ground a great
distance away but it seemed to have landed in the open vacant field adjacent
the house. This field is about 18 acres in area. Mr Brimberry descr~bed
the object as being "almost round, maybe a little oval or saucer-shaped
and giving off a bright light. It appeared to be spinning. He did not see
the tail when he observed the object.
Incident occu:r-red just before sun-up ai.d it was pretty light outside. PAGE 252 Location Helsinki, Finland
lJame of observer Artile taken from Helsinki Fress, 10th Jan !$
Finland (USLUIATI'ACHE AJ,!UGATION Helsinki, Findl.ad
6. Address of Observer Helsinki, Finland
Place of observation Vaasa, Finland
Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
13. Direction of flight West to Fast
21. Exhaust trail:! Long tail
23. Effect on clouds N/S
Sketches or photographs None
26. Remarks : Helsinki press 10th Jan 4S reported observation of light
phenomenon vicinity Vaasa 3 Jan. A brightly shining object with a long t.lil PAGE 253 Location Helsinki Finland (Military Attache was official sou.roe
of information)
Name of observer N/S
Occupation of observer N/S
6. Address of observer N/S
Place of ooservation Pietarsaari, F.i.nl.emd
Nwnber of objects 1
Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight 10 seconds
Direction of flight North to South
17. Color Shining
21. Exhaust trails Grey streaks were Je ft ,in the sky.
23. Effect on clouds N/S
Sketches or photographs None
Manner of disappearance N/S
26. Remar ks~ A shining object was seen near Pietarsaari on 5th Jan 191$ vrhi.ch
was observed for 10 seconds. It was goir.g from north to south. Eyewitnesses state
flames were ejected and grey streaks le.ft in the sky.
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 257 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #147 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #271 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (271 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 56/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the Department of War, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
Reported by trained U.S. military personnel during an operational mission (2026-06-12) - a high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This profile is shared across the AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the archive's densest scoring band, at 66.
On corroboration, this file from the Department of War - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file was released as open by the Department of War after a formal review process concluded - not simply logged and left pending. That's a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved, no review': a review actually happened, and remaining open is the Department of War's own published conclusion from it, not an absence of one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 56/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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