Early UFO Checklist Summaries
The Department of War released this PDF in PURSUE Release 01 as a packet of incident summaries numbered 101 through 172.1 Its release blurb describes a set of "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" forms, often accompanied by witness lists, statements, narrative reports, or descriptions.1
The scanned packet runs 178 pages and is not searchable as embedded text.2 The opening envelope is marked "Exhibit #530" and "Flying Discs," placing the file in an older report-handling system rather than a newly written narrative.2 The first visible checklist, Incident 101, records an 18 February 1948 observation at Norcatur, Kansas, attributed to a newspaper account from M. R. Krehbiel.2
The record matters because it preserves how early unidentified-object reports were organized: not just as sightings, but as administrative checklists that tracked origin, witnesses, summaries, and supporting material. In this release, the value is partly documentary context: the file shows the government record form around the report, not only the reported aerial event.