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FANDARD FORM NO. 64 é o

Office ‘Memu vv. AUN ¢ UNITED ST. SOVERNMENT

TO ; DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: October 9, 1947

pho : SAC, PORTLAND

SUBJECT: C FLYING DISCS
SECURITY MATTER — X.

Reference is made to Portland teletype dated September 13, 1947.

Records of the Radio Dispatcher, Portland Police Department, reflect
that first notice of unidentified objects in flight over the city on September 11,
1947 was received from officers in District 18, which is in the extreme north-
east section of the city, at 5:21 P.M. The log further reflects that at 5:23 P.M.
the radio requested District 14, which is further south, to attempt to locate
and identify the objects and that at 5:24 P.M. a report was received from the
car occupied by Chief of Police JENKINS, reporting that they had sighted some
objects. District 1, at 5:27 P.M. reported seeing nothing unusual in the sky.

ROBERT D. ADAIR, 4325 S.E. Madison Ave., Portland, advised that he was
one of the two officers on duty in District 18 on September 11. The car was in
the vicinity of N.E. 25th Avenue and Saratoga Court when ADAIR and his fellow
officer noticed a number of people looking upward and pointing. Upon looking at
the sky ADAIR observed the very bright reflection of the sun on some object
which was apparently made of silvery metal. The object was coming from the east
and mace a wide turn over the city and disappeared to the south. ADAIR estimated
its speed at about 150 miles per hour and its altitude at about 5,000 feet.

He watched it for a period of about two minutes and during that time it gradually
disappeared in such a manner as to appear that the angle was slowly changing,

so that the sun was no longer reflected into ADAIR's eyes. He says that the
shape appeared to be round but that the glare was so bright that it could have
hidden the true outline of the object. There was no oscillation visible - only
steady flight. ADAIR believes it was an ordinary metal airplane reflecting light

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J. Re CALDWELL, 7652 S.E. Lincoln St., Portland, Oregon was ADAIR's
partner in District 18 on September 11. CALDWELL states that the object appear-
red to him to take the same course as that described by ADAIR. He pointed out
that the speed, height, and size of the object were difficult to judge, because
of the interdependence of the three factors. However, he believes that the
object when first sighted was about three miles away and about two miles high.
He believes it was traveling at a much greater speed than a conventional air-
plane and was a great deal larger. It appeared to him to be elliptical in
shape, and inasmuch as it did not bank or tip he could not judge its thickness.

It was of a very bright silver or al um substance. i
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Chief of Police LEON V. JENKINS advised that he was travelling south
on N, Williams Avenue near Russell St., when he and Officer H. S. RANEY, his
driver, received a call on…