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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: 3 Dec 48-1715 2. Where Sighted: Needmore Road, near Wegner Ford Road - Dayton, Ohio, outskirts 3. Observer's Position: from car while driving west on Harshmanville Road (i.e., ground, air, control tower, etc.) (Needmore Rd) 4. Name and Address of Observer: Edgar S. Miller, Lt U. S. Navy, Ex 25183 5. Occupation and/or hobbies: Lt. U. S. Navy 6. Attention Attracted by: bright strip of yellow-orange flame directly ahead 7. Number of Object( ) Seen: 1 8. size of Object(s): X/S 9. Color of Object(a): yellow-orange flame 10. Shape (Sketch if Possible) 8/8 11. Nature of luminosity: Like that made by ram jet or rocket (directed beam of light?) 12. Altitude of Object: in excess of 10,000 feet (estimated) 13. Estimated Distance of Object from Observr r: 10 miles 14. Estimated Spent of Object: Appeared to climb at a fairly high rate 15. Time in sight: N/S - Object seen intermittently over a period of time 16. Tactics: observed a definite pattern of motion - both horizontal & vertical 17. Sound made by Object(s): 2/8 18. Direction of Flight of Object(e) I/S 19. Apparent Construction: 20. Effect on Clouds: 8/8 1. Exhaust Trail Color of): Object was possibly an exhaust flame Color: yellow-orange flame 22. Warner of Disappearance: overhead presumably in clouds 23. Weather Conditions at Time of Sighting: Ceiling suffers less than 10,000 feet. 24. Peculiarities Noted: 25. Summary of Incident: (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.