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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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(To be filled out and retained in files) 1. Date of Observation . 4 October 1948. Incident 182 2. Time of Observation. Approx 1430 hours.local time 4. Observer's Position. From a 0-47 at 6,000 feet. (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. Maj C. M. Smartt, Pilot, 2349 AF Ordinance, Hamilton AF Base 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. Pilot and Ordinance Officer 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) by Came close enough to cause him to duck in order to avoid collision 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. Three or four 9. Size of Object(s). 1-1/2 feet long and 9 inches across 10. Color of Object(s). Silver or silvery white 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). Teardrop 12. Nature of Luminosity. N/S 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. Seemed fairly close. 14. Speed of Object(s). Appeared to be traveling very fast. 15. Time in Sight. a second 16. Tactics. Traveled in straight line in gradual descent. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). None noticed 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). East 19. Apparent Construction (Of Knot Material or Substance). Metallic 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. No evidence of exhaust except for slight tail on tear-drop object 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. heavy visibility for 15 miles. Nanner of Disappearance: Disappeared under wing of aircraft 22. peculiarities Noted. 23. Summary of Incident. (over) (Attach a Separate Sheet if Additional Space is Needed)
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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.