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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 SUBMARY SHEET (To be filled out and retained in files) incident:191 2. Time of Observation. 1545 OST. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted 10 miles Southwest of Junction on City, Kansas. 4. Observer's Position. ground position (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.). 5. Name and Address of Observer Captain Glenn A. Huber, Base S-3 Officer, Ft. Riley, Kansas. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. Base S-3 Officer. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By. N/S. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1. 9. Size of Object(s). N/S. 10. Color of Object(s). "metallic". 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). N/S. 12. Nature of Luminosity. N/S. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. approx 7,000 ft. 14. Speed of Object(s). faster than any known aircraft. 15. Time in Sight. N/S. 16. Tactics. N/S. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). N/S. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). First West then turned South. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). metallic. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. N/S. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. CAVU Visibility 15 miles. 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.