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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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(To be filled out and retained in files) 1. Date of Observation . 16. Nov. 45 2. Time of Observation . N/S. 3. Where was Object(s) Sighted Over Andrews AF Base, Comp Springs, Md 4. Observer's Position Ground while on duty (i.e. ground, air, control tower, etc.) 5. Name and Address of Observer John J. Kushner, S/Sgt. USAF, Andrews AF Base 6. Occupation and/or Hobbies S/Sgt USAF. 7. Attention Attracted to Object(s) by Noise 8. Number of Object(s) Sighted 1 9. Size of Object(s) N/S 10. Color of Object(s) N/S 11. Shape (Sketch if Possible) N/S 12. Nature of Luminosity N/S 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observer Not very high 14. Speed of Object(s) N/S 15. Time in Sight N/S 16. Tactics N/S 17. Sound Made by Object(s) Twice as loud as R-47 but similar in sound 18. Direction of Flight of Object(s) Cannot be ascertained from statement "come from direction 2238th Ang across field towards Hanger #1" 19. Apparent Construction (Of What Material or Substance) Flight 20. Effect of Objects on Clouds and/or Exhaust Trail N/S - no exhaust seen 21. Weather Conditions Existing at the Time Night - moonlit - no glare from statements of pilots 22. peculiarities Noted did not look like an aircraft 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.