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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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Incident No. 174 1. Date and Time of Observation: 1 Oct 48 (Friday morning) 0540 2. Where Sighted: Ascension Parish, Township 10 South, Range 4 East 50 miles from New Orleans, La - ground 3. Observer's Position: ground (i. e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 4. Name and Address of Observer: E. B. Williams, Pres. United Land Co. 219 Dryades St., New Orleans. RA 0515 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: considerable flying experience 6. Attention Attracted by: M/S 7. Number of Object(c) Seen: 1 8. Size of Object(s): Approximately the length of a passenger aircraft 9. Color of Object(s): white-hot 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) cone-shaped 11. Nature of Luminosity: Seemed to be a white-hot cone. The object dis- (directed beam of light?) played no lights but seemed encased in flame. Did not light up the area. 12. Altitude of Object: 1500 to 2000 ft (estimated) 15. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: 3/4 miles away 14. Estimated Speed of Object: Approx 200 MPH 15. Time in Sight: Sufficiently long to enable Williams to make a fairly detailed observation. Approximately 10 seconds. 16. Tactics: Straight and level flight 17. Sound made by Obj. ct(s): soundless 18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) East 19. Apparent Construction: "flame" 20. Effect on Clouds: I/S 21. Exhust Trail (Color of): red flames 22. Monner of Disappearance: B/8 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: No clouds with wind fairly calm 24. Peculiarities Noted: Object left no trail of any kind and did not light up the area 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 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.