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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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TELCOON 7 Dec 7 1: RDO TELETYPE CONFERENCE NBR 169 FM CG AMC WRIGHT PAT AF BASE ORIO 071536Z TO CS USAF WASH D C SUBJECT SPECIAL A-2 CONFERENCE Incident 211 ITM 2 AIC R E 2 RIC T E D FROM MR DEYARD AND TO MAJ BOGGS INVESTIGATION MADE OF SO-CAL AND FLA ING WHEEL REPORTED IN BULL TANTAINE DECEMBER QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES AND EXAMINATION OF BURNED REMAINS INDICATE THAT OBJECT WAS PROBABLY A VIRTUAL PISTOL FLARE TIRED FROM GROUND PROBABLY BY PERSON WHO WID CARE TO ADMIT FIRING THE FLARE BECAUSE OF PUBLICITY CONSTITUTED WITH INCIDENT. BURNED REMAINS ARE BEING ANALYZED BY THE MATERIALS LAB TO DETERINE COMPOSITION. END ITM 2 MC STR E C FO
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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.