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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 and Time of Observation: 30 Oct 1948 1430 PST 2. Where Sighted: 15 miles northwest of Grays Harbor. Washington 10 miles off coast 3. Observer's Position: Air while flying an F-82 type aircraft on a northerly (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) course at 240 MH 4. Name and Address of Observer: Major Morris, Pilot and Lt Kunsman, 318th All Weather Fighter Sq. 325th Fighter Gp, McChord AF Base, Washington 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: As above 6. Attention Attracted by: E/S 7. Number of Object(1) Seen: from 10 to 20 9. size of Object(s): No idea of size - could not be determined 9. Color of Object(s): yellow then white 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) undetermined - thought they were egg-shaped 11. Nature of Luminosity: No outstanding reflection (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: Approx 8,000 ft (estimated) 15. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: too far away to determine a 14. Estimated Speed of Object: Could not be estimated 15. Time in Sight: 20 seconds 16. Tactics: horizontal flight with no apparent change of altitude - not trying to attack of to escape 17. Sound made by Obj ct(s): no sound 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) Westerly course for about 17 seconds them changed to a northerly course and disappeared 19. Apparent Construction: Seemed translucent 20. Effect on Clouds: X/S 1. Exhaust Trail Color of): No evidence of exhaust 22. Winner of Disappearance: Seemed to dissolve - they didn't go far enough to fade from view 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: 5 mile visibility - fog and anc 24. Peculiarities Noted: Appear translucent 25. Summary of Incident: (over) (See attached page)
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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.