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This Air Materiel Command file, released by the U.S. Department of War, holds Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233, sent under a 1949 transmittal. Most of the sheets record sightings of unidentified aerial objects in 1948 and early 1949. They cover Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Pablo, California, Honolulu, Kentwood, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi. Each sheet gives the observer's details and the object's size, speed and shape, and often an investigator's note on how reliable the witness seemed. The file ends with a blank guide for investigating reports, including radar sightings.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. NARA Record Group 38, catalogue id 143685. Each of these incident summaries 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.
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1. Date and Time of Observation: 8 December 1948 18:46
2. Where Sighted? Chamite AF Base, Illinois - 40°-18' North 88° 7-1/2' East
3. Observer's Position: ground while facing northeast (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.)
4. Name and Address of Observer: Sgt James E. Doty, Sgt Eugene E. Montag Det 16/IL, 16th Waa Sq. Chamute AFB, Rantoul, Illinois
5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Weather Observers, 16th Waa Sq
6. Attention Attracted by: glint of light
7. Number of Object(s) Seen: 1
8. Size of Object(s): 15 feet long x 6 ft wide - size jet fighter type plane
9. Color of Object(s): white
10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) Round
11. Nature of Luminosity: M/S (directed beam of light?)
12. Altitude of Object: Over 15.000 ft (estimated)
13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: I/S
14. Estimated Speed of Object: over 350 MPH
15. Time in Sight: 3 seconds
16. Tactics: Seemed to be moving in upward path horizontal from $ 1 5^{\circ} $ above horizon to 20 or $ 2 5^{\circ} $
17. Sound made by Object(s): No sound
18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) Northeast to South Southwest
19. Apparent Construction: X/S
20. Effect on Clouds; No clouds
21. Exhaust Trail (Color of): Statement of James E. Doty mentions that the
22. Manner of Disappearance: flew out of sight
23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: high scattered clouds
24. Peculiarities Noted: ( )
25. Summary of Incident: (over) (See attached page) Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 144 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.