Demarest, N.J., November 1948 - Incident Number: 232November 1948

On November 14, 1948, a housewife in Demarest, New Jersey, about five miles northwest of the town, reported seeing an unidentified object at 1318 hours (1:18 p.m.). According to the incident form, the object appeared aluminum or silvery with dark coloring mixed in. She described it as ball-shaped and metallic in construction. The object flew from north to south.

The Air Force case summary notes that information provided was "entirely insufficient to serve as a basis for analysis." An Army intelligence forwarding memo, dated November 17, 1948, simply reported the incident to the Director of Intelligence at the General Staff in Washington without additional detail.

The file reveals little about the investigation itself. No description of the object's behavior, speed, or manner of disappearance appears in the available OCR text. The case was assigned incident number 232 and later marked "Investigation dropped." Dr. J. Allen Hynek's evaluation index, included at the end of the file, lists case 232 under the category "Lack of evidence precludes explanation," suggesting the Air Force found too few facts to reach any conclusion.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives across 11 pages.