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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: 17 Nov 48 1430 hours
2. Where Sighted: Clark AP Base - eastern edge of
3. Observer's Position: ground (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.)
4. Name and Address of Observer: 1st Lt Everett L. Bundley & 1st Lt Max M. Feibelman, 44th Fighter Sq (SE) 18th Fighter Gp (SE) APO 74, U. S. Army
5. Occupation and/or hobbies: As above
6. Attention Attracted by: I/S
7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1
E. Size of Object(p): M/s
9. Color of Object(s): white
10. Shape (Sketch if Possible)
11. Nature of Luminosity: (directed beam of light?)
irregular mass - looked as if plane had exploded and left a white smoke column E/S
12. Altitude of Object: 30.000 ft (estimated)
15. Estimated Distance of object from Observer: 30.000 ft
14. Estimated Speed of Object: /s
15. Time in sight: Approximately 3 minutes - (Smoke trail)
16. Tactics: Object seemed to have made a loop inasmuch/the smoke trail performed complete circle - resembling a corkscrew
17. Sound made by Object(s): I/S
18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) Bitner 120 or $ 3 0 0 ^{\circ} $ according to origin
19. Apparent Construction: Object appeared like burst of flak
20. Effect on Clouds: none - vicinity was a cloudless sky
1. Exhaust Trail Color of): white exhaust trail extending some 1 to 10 miles
22. Winner of Disappearance: miles trail evaporated after three minutes like smoke, scattering thinly throughout the atmosphere
23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: 4000 feet scattered. visibility 50 miles. High overcast 24. Regularities Noted:
24. Peculiarities Noted: Object had the appearance of flak burst sitting still 50 miles. High overcast
25. Summary of Incident: Did not have the appearance of a vapor trail. (See attached page) (over) 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.