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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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1: CIDENT SURVEY SHEET (To be filled out and retained in files) Incident: 192 1. Date of Observation . 24 Dec 1948 . . . 2. Time of Observation . early evening. around 5:45 P. M. 3. From ground on route to Fargo, N. D. near outskirts of Norwood, Minnesota while traveling on highway 52 4. Observer's Position. ground (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. L. O. Sanders & Wife, 9th Street, North Tampa, North Dakota. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. N/S 7. Attention Attracted to Object (s) By. light 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1 9. Size of Object(s). N/S 10. Color of Object(s). N/S 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). N/S 12. Nature of Luminosity. N/S 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. N/S 14. Speed of Object(s). 2 or 3 times faster than a plane. 15. Time in Sight. N/S 16. Tactics. horizontal flight. 17. Sound Mode by Object(s). N/S 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). East to West direction. 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). "light" 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. N/S 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. Visibility was good 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.