U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

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From the Oregon Journal - 5 July 1947, Portland, Oregon
(Refer to incidents 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8a) / 10

Whatever they are, there are some disc-like objects flying around in the sky.

Or else eight (8) Portland area policemen and deputy sheriffs who sighted the objects Friday, numerous private citizens, the crew of a United Air Lines plane over Boise, Idaho, and a coastguardman who claims to have photographed one near Seattle, are all wrong.

In Portland, the alert was sound over police radio at 1:6 P.M. Friday, after the East Side Station received a score of calls that the objects were overhead. Within seconds, two police cars reported encountering the aircraft.

FLAKS SEEN, NOISE LACKING.

First to react in were Petrolman Walter Liss and Robert Ellis in Cer No. 8, who stopped near Oaks Park. Both World War II veterans and civilians, the three of the objects within 50 seconds traveling at three times the speed of the park. They reported that they heard engine noises but saw flares. The objects seemed erratic and changed direction at flight. The Petrolmen agreed that without knowledge of the size of the objects it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude.

Petrolman Egl Patterson in our do. 1) stopped at 36th Avenue and Foster road to look eastward from where the discs were reported. The driver saw them then coming out of the sun. He saw not anything, but later by looking through the window of the car, he saw that the discs seemed to be moving in a circular motion, and didn't flash or make any sound.

CHARGES IN DIP.

A former aircraft pilot, who said the object was while he was ever seen. He thought it was a dip-controlled because it could change direction at a 90° angle with difficulty.

Members of the chamber who at the root of By Irving street stopped when they heard the all-car alert, J. I. E. Frenin, L. C. Frenin, A. T. Austin and Petrolman K. C. E. said all saw the objects and said they appeared to be going south high over the Globe mills at terrible speed. Capt. Frenin said the discs kept them for a certain time whether there were three or six.

"The discs would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full disc, or a half-disc shape, then nothing at all," he reported. The objects looked like a shiny chromium hub cap off a car which wobbled, dispersed and reappeared."

There was a plane in the sky at the time, but all were skeptical that the discs were not planes.

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