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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 SUMMARY SHEET Incident No. 226 1. Date and Time of Observation: 6 December 1948 approx 2255 in the evening 2. Where Sighted: Sandia Base, Albuquerque, N. M. 3. Observer's Position: ground - while driving west on "D" St. (i. e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 4. Name and Address of Observer: Mr Joe Toulouse, Security Section, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, W. M. 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: I/3 - see above 6. Attention Attracted by: Saw light on windshield 7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1 8. Size of Object(s): Approximately 1/3 the diameter or the moon 9. Color of Object(s): greenish 10. Skate (Sketch if Possible) N/S - like flare 11. Nature of Luminosity: Like flare (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: I/S (estimated) 15. Estimated Distance of object from Observer: 2/5 14. Estimated Speed of Object: s/ 15. Time in Sight: 2 to 3 seconds 16. Tactics: Slight are falling from east to west 17. Sound made by Object(s): /S 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) east to west 19. Apparent Construction: like flare 20. Effect on Clouds: M/S 31. Exhaust Trail Color of): flaxing tail appeared during are 22. Monner of Disappearance: E/S 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: /s 24. Peculiarities Noted: Greenish bus 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.