38 143685 box7 Incident Summaries 173 233

Summary

A 144-page Department of War box and folder rollup of incident summaries 173-233, with text extracted from only the first 20 pages. The material consists of structured unidentified flying object check-list forms, including an entry numbered incident 274, sighted from a location in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, associated with New Orleans. The observer is identified as R. B. Williams, president of United Land Company of Dryades Street, New Orleans, a man with considerable flying experience, who at 0540 hours saw an object about the length of a passenger aircraft, white-hot and cone-shaped, enveloped in flame, soundless, at roughly 200 miles per hour three-quarters of a mile away, moving east in straight and level flight for about ten seconds. Its date line is not legible.