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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.
“Edmonton”2 pages
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1. Date of Observation . 17 Nov 1945 Incident: 203
2. Time of Observation 1418 Z
3. Where was Object(s) Sighted $ 5 6^{\circ} 1 0^{\prime} $ North Latitude by $ 1 1 7^{\circ} 3 0^{\prime} $ West Longitude Peace River, Alberta Province - some 250 miles NW of Edmonton
4. Observer's Position From 7,000 ft enroute to Kittignuit, N. W. T. from Edmonton, (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 1st Lt James Toomey, Edmonton, Alberta, Can
5. Name and Address of Observer. S/Sgt Onoo C, Blink, AF 20715676, Radio Operator Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
6. Occupation and/or Hobbies Radio Operator with crew
7. Attention Attracted to Object (s) By. N/S
8. Number of Object(s) Sighted 1
9. Size of Object(s). Approximately 50' in height.
10. Color of Object(s). Flaming orange color.
11. Shape (Sketch if Possible). Very shaped with tail.
12. Nature of Luminosity. Flame.
13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer. N/S
Altitude: Estimated at approximately 18,000 feet
14. Speed of Object(s). Unknown
15. Time in Sight Momentary.
16. Tactics appeared to be in a shallow dive.
17. Sound Made by Object(s) None.
18. Direction of Flight of Object(s). Southwest
19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance). "flame"
20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail. N/S but illuminated the sky momentarily behind it - had a tail
21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time Overcast with tops at approx 4500'.
NSL. High deck of thin broken stratus clouds at approx 12,000 ft.
22. Peculiarities Noted. N/S
23. Summary of Incident (over).
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(Attach a Separate Sheet if Additional Space is Needed) Not linked to a story yet.
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.