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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 . 5th Nov 1948 Incident 197 2. Time of Observation . 0435-0455. . . 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted Richmond, Indiana 4. Observer's Position. From "The Palladium-Item" building, Richmond, Indiana. (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. Dale Stevens, Sports Editor for The Palladium Item. Richmond, Indiana. 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. Sports Writer. 7. Attention Attracted to Object (s) By. Telephone call which referred his attention to an object in the sky. 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1. 9. Size of Object(s). Larger than a star. 10. Color of Object(s). White. 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). Round. 12. Nature of Luminosity. Like that of a brilliant star. 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. N/A - thought to be great distance. 14. Speed of Object(s). Remained stationary. 15. Time in Sight. 20 minutes (from 0435 to 0455). 16. Tactics. Remained stationary. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). None. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). N/A. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. No exhaust trail - clouds caused object to appear a bit dimmer. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. Low overcast at about 1,000 ft. however when object was first observed the sky was clear with stars out. 22. peculiarities Noted. Ground to flitter. 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 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.