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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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1. Date and Time of Observation: 12 Nov 1948 between 1300 and 1400 2. Where Sighted: Northeast portion of Clark AF Base, Phillipine Islands 3. Observer's Position: ground (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) 4. Name and Address of Observer: Sgt Fredrick M. Wright, 18th Maintenance Sq 18th Main & Supply Gp, Clark AF Base 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Sgt, USAF 6. Attention Attracted by: white speak 7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1 8. Size of Object(s): Estimated Size: 300 ft / 35 ft body at wings; Wings 47-1/2; width of wing 25 ft 9. Color of Object(s): snow-white 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) See attached 11. Nature of Luminosity: /9 (directed beam of light) 12. Altitude of Object: 3 to 6 miles high (estimated) 15. Estimated distance of object from observer: 20 to 30 miles 14. Estimated Speed of Object: Faster than jet plane 15. Time in Sight: E/S - observed intermittently thru cloud formation 16. Tactics: Flying around Clark AF Base - no definite heading horizontal flight - apparently reconnaissance 17. Sound made by Object(s): single roar 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) no definite heading - flew around Clark AF Base 19. Apparent Construction: Similar to plane 20. Effect on Clouds: I/S - entered and broke out of cloud six times 1. Exhaust Trail Color -f): 22. Banner of Disappearance: appeared to leave an exhaust trail from tail-end of mentioned object - "It appeared to be sky writing" 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: 4500 scattered. visibility 30 24. Poculi crtics Noted: 25. Summary of Incident: tapering off from directly above the wings to small point (over) (See attached page)
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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.