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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 1948 2135 hours 2. Where Sighted: west of Las Vegas, N. M. 3. Observer's Position: Air, pilot of a commercial plane while enroute from (i. e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) Tucumcari, N. M. to Las Vegas to Santa Fe, to Albuquerque, N.M. 4. Name and Address of Observer: (Cant Pleasant, N.M. 4. Name and Address of Observer: (Capt Pioneer Air Flight #63 Capt VAN LLOYD 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Pilot 6. Attention Attracted by: Object appeared to be coming straight to ship attempted to jerk plane from course to avoid the light 7. Number of Object(s) seen: 1 7. Number of Object( ) seen: 1 3. Size of Object(s): X/S 9. Color of Object(s): pale green (first rpt) bright white changing to orange (interview with 3/A NEEP) 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) N/S - similar to Very Pistol flare 11. Nature of Luminosity: like shooting star (directed beam of light) 12. Altitude of Object: 500 feet altitude (1st rpt) slight above 9,000 ft (interview with EMP) (estimated) 15. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: N/S thought object was coming straight to ship 14. Estimated Speed of Object: X/3 15. Time in Sight: /s 16. Tactics: N/S appeared to be coming straight to the ship - then trailed off to the ground 17. Sound 17. Sound made by Obj ct(s): W/S 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) X/8 19. Apparent Construction: flare-like 20. Effect on Clouds: X/S 11. Exhaust Trail (Color of): pale green trail (not mentioned in 2d rpt) 22. manner of Disappearance: B/S 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: B/S 24. Peculiarities Noted: Too near the ground for a shooting star & too far up for a Very Pistol flare 25. Summary of Instructions 25. Summary of Incident: (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.