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Case FileNARA NAID 28933542 · T1206 Roll 4

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Kirtland AFB, N.M., March 1949 - Incident Number: 270March 1949

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Summary

I'm unable to write a reliable summary of this case. The OCR (optical character recognition) text is too heavily degraded and garbled to extract clear factual information with confidence. While I can make out some scattered details, a sighting near Kirtland AFB on March 10, 1949, involving a spherical yellow object observed by Corporal Paul James Hutchinson, the vast majority of the document is either illegible or nonsensical due to OCR errors.

Additionally, pages 7 through 23 appear to document separate incidents from March 12, 1949, in Minneapolis and Iowa, which fall outside the stated case metadata for Incident 270 (March 1949, Kirtland AFB).

Without reliable source text, I cannot responsibly invent or reconstruct missing details. The full case file, comprising 23 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.

Reported location

Kirtland AFB, N.M., March 1949 - Incident Number: 270

Date of incident

March 1949

State / country

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Page count

23 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 4

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 23
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