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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.
I CIDENT SUBJARY SHEET (To be filled out and retained in files) Incident: 219 1. Date of Observation . 29 Nov. 48 . . . 2. Time of Observation . 8:00 P.M. . . . . . 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted ... Newburgh, N. X. 4. Observer's Position ... ground, let & Concord St., Newburgh, N. X. (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer ... Doris Croke, age 14, 325 First St., Newburgh & two young friends. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies ... ninth grade student at N. Junior High School. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) by ... N/S. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted ... 1. 9. Size of Object(s) ... "large as life", "large, red, ball". 10. Color of Object(s) ... red. 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible) ... ball. 12. Nature of Luminosity ... Ball of Fire. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer ... N/S. 14. Speed of Object(s) ... N/S - but extremely fast. 15. Time in Sight ... 2 seconds. 16. Tactics ... horizontal flight - went below horizon. 17. Sound Made by Object(s) ... N/S. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) ... East to West. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance) ... "fire" 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail ... long tail. ... Witness thought she saw a blue-tailed const. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time ... N/S. 22. Peculiarities Noted ... Thought it seemed unusual for a shooting star. 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 under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 144 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.