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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.
Incident No. 231 1. Date and Time of Observation: 1 Jan 48 1:25 A.M. & 1:30 A.M. 2. Where Sighted: Abilene, Texas 3. Observer's Position: ground (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 4. Name and Address of Observer: Mr A. Schroeder, 1109 Highland Ave Abilene, Texas 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: I/s 6. Attention Attracted by: glow on the horizon - due west of Abilene, Texas (direction of White Sand Proving Grounds) 7. Number of Object(s) Seen: 1 8. Size of Object(s): /3 9. Color of Object(s): Bright blue green 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) Like bell with a fan-shaped glow surrounding 11. Nature of Luminosity: Like flare (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: X/S - observed on the horizon (estimated) 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: M/S - could not be estimated 14. Estimated Speed of Object: No apparent speed 15. Time in Sight: 2 seconds 16. Tactics: - remained stationary 17. Sound made by Object(s): No sound 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) No flight perceived 19. Apparent Construction: flare-like 20. Effect on Clouds: Clear sky 21. Exhaust Trail (Color of): Fan-shaped glow seemed to surrounded object 22. Winner of Disappearance: I/S 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: Clear sky 24. Peculiarities Noted: See 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 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.