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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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INCIDENT SURGLARY SHEET 1. Date and Time of Observation: 3 or 4th Nov 48 - 2130 hours & 23 Nov 48 (All sightings occurred approx 2200 hours) 2. Where Sighted: 10 miles east of Vangham, N. N. - Highway 60 on 3 or 4th Nov 48 3. Observer's Position: ground - while driving (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 24. Name and Address of Observer: Col W. P. Hayes, Inf., Executive, New Mexico Military District 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: As above 6. Attention Attracted by: M/S 7. Number of Object( ) seen: 2 8. size of Object(s): 1 foot in diameter 9. Color of Object(s): bright white changing to bright fiery red color as it exploded. 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) ball 11. Nature of Luminosity: like miniature sun (directed back of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: From 500 ft when first observed to 100-200 ft (estimated) from ground where it burst in a spray of reddish color 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: 40 to 60 yds on one sighting and about 400 yds at another 14. Estimated Speed of Object: Slow descent 15. Time in Sight: N/S Had time to get out of car and watch object which appeared to explode 50 to 60 yds in front of him at an altitude of 200 ft. 16. Tactics: allow vertical descent 17. Sound made by Object(s): none - although he was within 40 to 60 yds of obj. A outside of car. See "Details" at Albuquerque, N.M. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) Vertical descent 19. Apparent Construction: fireball 20. Effect on Clouds: N/S - weather clear 11. Exhaust Treil Color of): /3 22. Wenner of Disappearance: exploded - fragments assuring a fiery red color which descended toward earth like numerous sparks but extinguished 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: Clear before reaching ground 24. Peculiarities Noted: Noticed always around 2200 hours in the vicinity of Vaughn - Highway 60 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.