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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 SUBJARY SHEET (To be filled out and retained in files) Incident: 201 1. Date of Observation - 31 Oct 1948 2. Time of Observation 02302 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted. Overhead - Army Air Bases, Agoreq 4. Observer's Position. ground (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. Staff Sgt, Joseph J. Bernett, AF 13127245, APO 406 New York 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. US AF 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By. N/S 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1 9. Size of Object(s). N/S 10. Color of Object(s): pk pale yellow or light orange color 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). flat round shape 12. Nature of Luminosity. Not stated 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. N/S 14. Speed of Object(s). approximate speed thought to be around 160 MPH 15. Time in Sight. 3 to 5 minutes 16. Tactics. weaving but maintaining course. Did not change altitude 17. Sound Trade by Object(s). none heard 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). northerly direction 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). N/S 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. N/S - no vapor trails Disappeared behind clouds 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. 3 strate-cumples at 2500 feet visibility 15 miles, winds from southwest at 748 MPH 22. Peculiarities Noted. "quaying" but forward motion 23. Summary of Incident. (over)
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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.