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Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
To: Director, FBI
DATE: 9-17-47
FROM: SAC, Portland
SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS
SECURITY MATTER - I
Refer San Francisco letter dated September 4, 1947.
[...], Portland, reported without consulting any records that on June 24, 1947, while prospecting at a point in the Cascade Mountains approximately five thousand feet from sea level, during the afternoon he noticed a reflection, looked up, and saw a disc proceeding in a southeasterly direction. Immediately upon sighting this object he placed his telescope to his eye and observed the disc for approximately fourty-five to sixty seconds. He remarked that it is possible for him to pick up an object at a distance of ten miles with this telescope. At the time the disc was sighted by Mr. [...] it was banking in the sun, and he observed five or six similar objects but only concentrated on one. He related that they did not fly in any particular formation and that he would estimate their height to be about one thousand feet from where he was standing. He said the object was about thirty feet in diameter, and appeared to have a tail. It made no noise.
According to [...] he remained in the vicinity of the Cascades for several days and then returned to Portland and noted an article in the local paper which stated in effect that a man in Boise, Idaho, had sighted a similar object but that authorities had disclaimed any knowledge of such an object. He said he communicated with the Army for the sole purpose of attempting to add credence to the story furnished by the man in Boise.
[...] also related that on the occasion of his sighting the objects on June 24, 1947 he had in his possession a compass and a watch. He noted particularly that immediately before he sighted the disc the compass acted very peculiar, the hand waving from one side to the other, but that this condition corrected itself immediately after the discs had passed out of sight.
Informant appeared to be a very reliable individual who advised that he had been a prospector in the states of Montana, Washington, and Oregon for the past forty years.
FJS:KAH
62-1531
2 oct San Francisco (62-2938)
RECORDED
INDEXED 31 SEP 1947
