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

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From the Oregon Journal - 5 July 1967, Portland, Oregon (Reference Incidents 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8e)

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

Or else eight (8) Portland area policemen and deputy seriffs who sighted the objects Friday, numerous private citizens, the crew of a United Air Lines plane over Boise, Idaho, and a constgurdmen 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 0.11 and the mean were overheard. Within seconds, two crowd cars reported coming the mystery craft.

FLAKING SEA, NOISE LACKING.

First to report in were Patrolmen Walter Lirey and Robert Bills in Car No. 52, who stopped near Orkney Park. Both World War II veterans and civilian pilots, the situated three of the objects within 30 seconds travelling at great height and speed over the park. They reported they could no engine noises but saw flashes. The objects seemed erratic and changed direction of flight. The patrolmen agreed that without knowledge of the size of the objects it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude.

Petrolman Earl Patterson in our do. 13 story at 12 30 40 Ave. and Poster road to Look eastward from where the discs were reported. Telephone calls then coming out of the sun. He saw nothing, but later observed the great and leading southwest. The craft seemed to be glimming or apprehilled while "I don't flank or pull at it."

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A former vice president, he said the object was unliveable and never seen. He thought it appeared radio-controlled because it could change direction at a 90° angle without difficulty.

Members of the other will all at the start of 18 Irving street strieved not when they heard the all-cur alert, J. H. T. A. Iman, Lester P. H. A. T. Austin and Petroleum K. C. E. all and the objects and told they appeared to be going south high with the Globe mills at terrible weather. Capt. P. Dixon said the riders kept them from a certain whether there were three or six.

The disc would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full fire, or a half-moon shape, then nothing at all." he reported. The objects looked like a shiny chromium hub cap of a bar which wobbled, disappeared and reappeared.

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