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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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On August 4th, while traveling south on U. S. Highway No. 30, approximately two and one-half miles north of North Powder, Oregon, - somewhere between 2 & 3 A. M. - I was amazed to see in the heavens directly south of me, a fireball. This object appeared to come out of nowhere, but when first observed, was traveling in a horizontal line on an angle presumed to be northwest to southeast at an elevation above sea level of 5500' (absolute direction and elevation argumentative). It appeared to me - for a descriptive purpose - as having been ejected from a huge Roman candle, and this candle, by whatever power held, was on a horizontal plane with the earth. As the object in its trajectory, approximately five and one-half miles, became spent, it arched earthly in a natural down grade. As I recall it, this arc was equal to approximately 90 degrees. Immediately after reaching this 'nth' degree of the arc, it extinguished itself. I do not recall that there was much of a meteor type tail, but the object did have a definite fluorescent glow circumventing itself. As to the color, I can best describe it by referring your observation after dark to a high tensity neon sign of green - perhaps on the light green side." Sue incident 223
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 144 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.