Portland, Oregon: Police officers and newsman among many who see five wobbling discs
Between 1:05 and 5:30 p.m. on 4 July 1947, many people in Portland, Oregon, among them a KOIN newsman, a deputy sheriff and several police officers, watched five large metallic discs move at high speed with a wobbling motion.
Background
Between 1:05 and 5:30 p.m. many people in Portland, Oregon, including KOIN newsman Frank Cooley, deputy Clark County Sheriff Fred Krives, Portland police officer Kenneth A. McDowell and Oregon highway patrol Sgt. Claude Cross, saw five large discs moving at high speed, two to the south and three to the east, with an oscillating or wobbling motion, sudden 90° turns or zigzagging. Radio reports alerted other officers, including the WWII veterans Walter Lissy, Robert Ellis and Earl Patterson, who saw metallic objects resembling a disc, hubcap, pie pan or half-moon flashing in the sun. No vapor trail or noise, except possible humming, was reported. Discs were also seen in Milwaukie, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Eberhart cites NICAP, the PURSUE release and the Portland Oregonian and Oregon Journal of 5 July 1947. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.