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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 . October 1948 Incident: 182 2. Time of Observation. 2220 GMT to 2310 GMT 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted . 74° 40' West by 36° 42' North 4. Observer's Position . At sea - aboard the S/S Gulfport (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer . S/S Gulfport 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies . Ship's captain 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By . N/S 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted . 1 9. Size of Object(s) . 1/4 size of full moon 10. Color of Object(s) . bright 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible) . round 12. Nature of Luminosity . N/S 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer N/S 14. Speed of Object(s) . Could not estimate 15. Time in Sight . 50 minutes 16. Tactics . N/S 17. Sound Made by Object(s) . N/S 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) . southeast 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance) . N/S 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail . N/S 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time . N/S 22. peculiarities Noted . End distinct bright center 23. Summary of Incident . (over)
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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.