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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. 189 1. Date and Time of Observation: 22 Sept 1948 about 1530 hours 2. Where Sighted: Near Turner AF Base, Albany, Ga 3. Observer's Position: Air - while acting as co-pilot (i. e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) h. Name and Address of Observer: Lt Martin G. Rubisch, Eglin Auxiliary Fld 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Asst Combat Operations Officer - Co-pilot 6. Attention Attracted by: / an approaching object 7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1 E. size of Object(s): Size of a radio-controlled model plane (5 to 10 ft) 9. Color of Object(s): metallic and shiny 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) Undetermined 11. Nature of Luminosity: N/S - apparently none (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: Between 1500 and 2000 ft (estimated) 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: MPE - 1/2 mile horizontally Approximately 500' laterally. 14. Estimated Speed of Object: about 250 MPE 15. Time in slight: 3 seconds 16. Tactics: xyg Level flight 17. Sound made by Object(s): xyz3 - Unknown 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) 335 19. Apparent Construction: Metallic 20. Effect on Clouds: X/S - CAVU 1. Exhaust Trail (Color of): /8 22. manner of Disappearance: I/S 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: CAVU 24. Peculiarities Noted: No wings or rudder 25. Summary of Incident: (over) (See attreened 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.