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CONFIDENTIA FROM THE OREGON JOURNAL-5 July 1947PortlandOre. PROWL CARS SPOT DISKS IN SKY HERE Whatever they are, there are some disk-like ob jects flying around in the sky. Or else oight.Portland area policemen end deputy sheriffs who sighted the objects Fridey, numerous private citizens, the crew of a United Air Linos plane over Soise, Idaho, and a coastguardsmen who claims to have photographed one near Seattle, are all wrong. Friday, after the East Side station received a score of calls that the disks were overhead. Within seconds, two prowl csrs reported spotting the mys- tery craft. PLASHES SEEN NOISR LACKING. First to report in were Patrolmen Walter Lissy and Robert Ellis in pe y pe civilian pilots, they signted three of the objects within s0 seconds tray- eling at great height and speed over the park. They reported they heard no direction of flight. The patrolmen agreed that without kmowledge of the size of the objeots it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude. Patrolman Eerl Patterson in cer No. 13 stopped et SE 82d avenue and Foster rosd to look eastwara from there the disks were raported. Telephone calls located thom coning out of the sun. Hs saw nothing, but a few seconds later observed one coming out of the west and heading southwest. The craft seomed to bc alwninua or oggshell white and didn't flash or reflect light, he said. OBJECTS UNIDENTIFIED. A former aircorps veteran he said the object was unlike any plane he'd ever seen. Ee thought it appeared radio-controlled becauss the disk Members of the harbor patrol at the foot of Nw Irving street stepped A.T. Austed and Patrolman K. C. Hoff all saw the objeots 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 sometimes we would see a full disk, then a half-moon shape, then nothing at all," he reported. The objeets looked more like a shiny chromium hub cap off a car which wobbled, disappeared and reappeared.". qa a g the disks were not planes. EDERAL BUREAU CF INVESTIGATION W.S.DEP HTMENTE YSUICE AUG71947 SAN FRANCIS CONEIDENTL ROUTED TO