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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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Sgt Wright stated he was watching some cloud formations in the North-east portion of the sky when he observed a white speck materialize and lengthen out. At first he thought it was sky-writing but as it continued to advance he thought it appeared as a whole unit. Object pursued a northwestern direction and entered a very large cloud formation. As the object emerged on the northwest by north side the object appeared larger and he was able to get a clearer view. The object appeared snow-white. At one time Sgt Wright was able to obtain a side-view impression. It seemed as if the side surface was broken by windows. The nose, too, was short in comparison to the length. There was definitely a wing formation - low wing and very short in comparison to the length of the fuselage. Sgt Wright perceived the object six times thru the cloud formation, in various attitudes - see attached drawings. Sgt Wright in his drawing estimates the length of the fuselage to be 300 feet. However, he stated that it would be impossible for him to estimate the length of the object if the craft was using a rear type of propulsion and utilizing a fuel that left a white exhaust. Fuselage apparently had no tail assembly. It appeared as a straight body tapering off from directly above the wings to a very small point. Evaluation! D-5 = 3gt Wright's character and his honesty are questionable according to the interrogating officer.
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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.