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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 SUMMARY SHEET (To be filled out and retained in files) 1. Date of Observation . 31.0pt.1945. . . 2. Time of Observation . 0300Z to.0330Z. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted. Overhead at Army Air Base, Amorea. 4. Observer's Position. Ground (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer. PTC. Theodor. Vlas 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies. USAF 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) By. N/S 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted. 1 9. Size of Object(s). of light bulb. 10. Color of Object(s). white with yellowish tint. 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). like light bulb. 12. Nature of Luminosity. N/S 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. N/S. 14. Speed of Object(s). 30 MPH 15. Time in Sight. N/S 16. Tactics. steadily gaining altitude. 17. Sound Made by Object(s). No sound heard. 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). northerly. 19. Apparent Construction (Of That Material or Substance). N/S. 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. disappeared behind cloud. No vapor trails noticed. 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time. 3. stratus-cumulus at 2500 feet visibility 15 miles, winds from SW at 7 & 8 MPH; Temperature: 69; dpoint: 63. 22. Peculiarities Noted. None. 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.