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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: 5 December 1945 2105 hours & 2127 hours 2. Where Sighted: West of Las Vegas, New Mexico (2105) 3. Observer's Position: Air-pilot of a while flying at 18,000 ft. ground, air, control tower, etc. 4. Name and Address of Observer: Captain A. Goude. 40-55483 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Pilot 6. Attention Attracted by: flare 7. Number of Object(s) Seen: 1 5. Size of Object(s): m/s 9. Color of Object(s): green 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) similar to flare 11. Nature of Luminosity: Like flare (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: 500 feet. (estimated) 13. Estimated Distance of object from Observer: I/S 14. Estimated Speed of Object: X/8 15. Time in Sight: 2/3 16. Tactics: 3/2 17. Sound made by Object(s): 2/3 18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) m/s 19. Apparent Construction: Like flare 20. Effect on Clouds: x/s 21. Exhaust Trail (Color of): /s 22. Manner of Disappearance: /s 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: 3/5 24. Peculiarities Noted: 25. Summary of Incident: (over) (See attached page)
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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.