Documents / Official release
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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At approximately 2255 the evening of 6 December 1948, Mr Joseph H. Toulouse, A. B. C. Security, Sandia Base, observed a definite greenish flare in the sky almost directly overhead of Sandia Base At the time he was driving west on "D" Street and had arrived at a Stop sign at Main Street. The flare appeared in the upper right hand corner of the windshield slightly to the northwest. It was approximately 1/3 the diameter of the moon and a slight arc ensued falling from east to west. The flaming tail appeared during the arc. The entire phenomenon lasted possibly two to three seconds after which it vanished.
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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.