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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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I CIDEN SUMMARY SHEET ( be filled out and retained i files) 1. Date of Observation J/8. 2. Time of Observation 2245. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted . 40 miles northwest of Martinsburg, West Va. 4. Observer's Position . Aircraft on 125° heading (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer Capt O. N. Legg, Capt R. H. Cusandy A S/Sgt T. P. Turner of the Air Rescue Service, Fort Bragg, N. C. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. Pilot or co-pilot and engineer. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By. Seeing object in front of aircraft. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1. 9. Size of Object(s) Not determined. 10. Color of Object(s) Changing - red to blue to red. 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). Similar to parachute flare. 12. Nature of Luminosity. Flare. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. 20 miles. 14. Speed of Object(s). Appeared to be stationary. 15. Time in Sight. 1 minute. 16. Tactics. Remained stationary. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). None heard. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). Appeared stationary. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). Like flare. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. N/S - no significant exhaust noticed. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. Weather in Martinsburg area reported as clear 7 miles visibility. 22. peculiarities Noted. Changed color. 23. Summary of Incident. (over). 23. Summary of Incident (OVER) (Attach a Separate Sheet if Additional Space is Needed)
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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.