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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. Date of Observation .1040 A.N. . . . Incident 194 2. Time of Observation . 3.Nov.1948 now identified 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted . Year. Andrews. Fld. 4. Observer's Position . Aircraft #37821 (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer . Lt Gov Pain, Coast Guard Pilot . (original report) and by 2 fighter pilots of the 82d Fighter Wing, who verified the sighting 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) by N/S 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted in a cluster 9. Size of Object(s) N/S 10. Color of Object(s) N/S 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible) round - that of balloon 12. Nature of Luminosity N/S 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer N/S Mevation: 43,000 feet 14. Speed of Object(s) 2 MPH 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) heading of approximately 45° 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance) like that of balloon 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail N/S 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time good visibility - scattered to problem best of clouds approximately 5,000 feet 22. peculiarities Noted Resembled an intestine that had been inflated
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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.