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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 . 1 Nov 1948. . . 2. Time of Observation. 22:45 2 ... 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted. 3-3/4 miles from Rt MoAndrew, Newfoundland. 4. Observer's Position OCA Scope (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer . By 2 GCA operators, Ft McAndrew, Newfoundland. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies GCA operators 7. Attention Attracted to Object (s) blip appeared on radar scope. 9. Size of Object(s) . . too large for a bird and too small for an aircraft . 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). M/S .equld .nqt .be asqertained . . . . . . . . . 12. Nature of Luminosity . . 2/3 . . . . . 14. Speed of Object(s) . estimated at almost a mile a minute - 60 XK MPH 15. Time in Sight . . . 4 minutes and 7 seconds - timed with stop watch 16. Tactics ...z/s 17. Sound Made by OBJECT(s) . P/8 ... 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) . On heading of 249° . Disappeared on bearing of 122° 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance) /s. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail . You Could not be ascertained 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time . . m/s 22. Peculiarities Noted . . . 8/8 . . . . . 23. Summary of Incident ( ) ... (Attach a Soperate 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 under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 144 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.