Documents / Official release
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 SUMMARY SHEET
Incident No. 200b
1. Date and Time of Observation: 17 Oct 48 1610
2. Where Sighted: Orescent City, Calif
3. Observer's Position: ground (i. e., ground, air, control tower, etc.)
4. Name and Address of Observer: Ernest Haley Box 406, Crescent City, Calif
5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Dry Cleaner
6. Attention Attracted by: glint of light
7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1
8. Size of Object(s): Unknown
9. Color of Object(s): Color
10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) like small plane
11. Nature of Luminosity: reflected light (directed beam of light?)
12. Altitude of Object: Between 20 and 25,000 ft (estimated)
13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer: N/S
14. Estimated Speed of Object: N/S
15. Time in sight: 4 to 5 minutes
16. Tactics: Made a $ 4 5^{\circ} $ turn and bank to the right, then made sharp turn to the south
17. Sound made by Object(s): none
18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) southerly
19. Apparent Construction: metallic
20. Effect on Clouds: N/S
21. Exhaust Trail (Color of): none
22. Manner of Disappearance: gradually disappeared
23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: cavu
24. Peculiarities Noted: None
25. Summary of Incident: (over) (See attached page) Not linked to a story yet.
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.