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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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* Incident No. 175 1. Date and Time of Observation: 23 Sept 1948 0945 2. Where Sighted: Sante Fe, New Mexico 3. Observer's Position: Ground, southwest from Plaza of Santa Fe, N. M. (i. e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 4. Name and Address of Observer: A. Ruble Angier, 2620 Proctor St, Waco, Texas 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: 6. Attention Attracted by: Neon Sign Manufacturer - own employer A pilot since 1928 - not a hobby Sew object glint while watching another aircraft 7. Number of Object(e) Seen: 1 8. size of Object(s): At least 100 to 150 feet in diameter 9. Color of Object(s): white 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) 11. Nature of luminosity: (directed beam of light?) perfectly flat in appearance - compared to dime in sky. - Sighted in daylight 12. Altitude of Object: 25.000 to 30.000 feet (estimated) 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observe r: Z/S 14. Estimated board of Object: Stationary at time sighted 15. Time in sight: 15 or 20 minutes 16. Tactics: Very little movement if any noticed 17. Sound made by Object(s): No sound determined at time of sighting 18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) Stationary - Seemed to move in a semi circle, from S. to E. and finally to NE. May have been optical illusion. 19. Apparent Construction: Notdetermined 20. Effect on Clouds: No clouds 1. Exhaust Trail Color of): No evidence of exhaust noticed 22. Winner of Disappearance: Still in view when observer left 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: CAVU 24. Peculiarities Noted: Give the appearance of being flat 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.