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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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While conversing with Mr Ernest Haley on Battery Point, Crescent City, Calif, Mrs Elise Henggi, housewife, saw a small silver-colored object that reflected light. The object was elliptic in shape and was traveling very fast in a southerly direction and remained in sight for 2 minutes. It was traveling about 5,000 feet higher than a plane flying north. Shortly after sighting, the object made a sharp bank of about 45° to the right then resumed its course, disappearing to sea. No smoke or noise was heard from the object. At all times the object gave off a brilliant flash like that of sunlight on a glass mirror. Mrs Henggi is 70 years of age, of Swiss extinction, and is a long time resident of Crescent City. She is of average intelligence, and has a good character and reputation. She had no idea of speed, range or altitude. She thought the object different than any other airborne carft she had ever seen. The brightness of the object impressed her most.
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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.