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PROM THE OREGON JOURNAL ~ 6 July 1947, Portland, Ore. “PROWL CARS SPOT DISKS IN SKY HERE" Whatever they are, there are some diskelike objects flying around in the sky. Bate eight Portland area policemen and deputy sheriffs who sighted the objects Friday, numerous private citizens, the crew of a United Air Lines plane over Soise, Idaho, and a coastguardsmen who claims to have photographed one near Seattle, are all wrong. Tm Portland the alert was sounded over police radio at 1206 pems Friday, after the Last Side station received a score of calls that the disks were overhead. Within seconds, two prowl cars reported spotting the mys= tery craft. PLASHES SEEN, NOISK LACKING. First to report in were Pairclmen Welter Lissy and Robert Ellis Car lio. 82, who stopped near Oaks Park. Both World Wer II veterans and civilian pillows, they sigated three of the objects within SO seconds tray- eling at great height and speed over the park. They reported they heard no engine noises but saw flashes. The objects seemed erratic and direotion of flight. The patrolmen agreed that without knowledge of the 5 Size of the objects it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude. ° Patrolman berl Patterson in cer No. 13 stopped at SE 62d avenue and Foster road to look eastward from there the disks were reported. Telephone calls located thom coming out of the sun, He saw nothing, but a few seconds later observed one coming out of the west and heading southwest. ‘The craft seomed to ve uluainua or oggshell white and didn't flash or reflect light, he saide OBJECTS UNIDENTIFIED. A former aircorps veteran, he said the object was unlike any plane he'd ever seen. He thought it appeared radio-controlled because the disk could change direction at a 90-degree angle without difficulty. Members of the harbor patrol at the foot of MW Irving street stepped out when they heard the all-ear alert. Capt. Ke A. Prehn, Harbor Pilot, As Ts Austed and Patrolman K, C. Hoff all saw the objects and said they appeared to be going south high over the Globe mills at terrific speed. Capt. Prehn said the flashes kept them from ascertaining whether there were three or six. "The disks would oscillate and sometines we would see a full disk, then e half-moon shape, then nothing at all," he reported. ‘The objects looked more like a shiny chromium hub cap off a oar which wobbled, disappeared — and reappeared." There was a plane in the sky at the t: the diske were not planes. FEDERAL BUREAU GF INVESTIGATIO vu. Ss. D TMENT OO SRICE. AUG 7 1947 f SAN FRANCICCe Nt ca qeour eu 10 oS ee es