Documents / Official release
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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1. Date of Observation. 11. October. 1945. 2. Time of Observation. 1300 hours. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted. Neubiberg. AF Base, Germany. 4. Observer's Position. ground. (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. N/S - observed by 6 military personnel of 86th Fighter Wing, Neubiberg AF Base. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. N/S. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By. N/S. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1. 9. Size of Object(s). N/S - but it caused an AF-80 craft flying between object and observer to appear small in relation to the size of the object. 10. Color of Object(s). silver and very shiny. 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). Round - but unable to determine if disc or ballist shaped. 12. Nature of Luminosity. reflected light. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. 40,000 ft. altitude. 14. Speed of Object(s). Did not appear to move but got smaller - presumably because it continued to rise. 15. Time in Sight. 45 minutes. 16. Tactics. N/S - appeared stationary. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). N/S. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). Appeared on a 50° heading. f/Neubiberg. AF Base. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). metallic. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. Object disappeared behind a thin layer of clouds. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. Clouds at 20,000 ft - sunlight. 22. peculiarities Noted. None. 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.